Family Farming Pasture Yield 
UnderstandingAg
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.
UnderstandingAg
APRIL 3, 2025
of new cropland areas produced yields below the national average, with a mean yield deficit of 6.5%. British farmers have observed positive results that resemble those observed at the Menoken Farm, including pH balancing, organic matter accumulation, weed suppression and yield bumps in subsequent cash crops.
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Farmbrite
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
In addition, they may have been told that the carbon emissions for each litre of milk produced by intensively managed ‘fully housed’ cows, is less than the emissions from lower-yielding, mainly grass-fed cows – in other words, the cows that I and thousands of other dairy farmers look after on our family farms.
UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
My paradigm assumed that I was helping to feed the world, and as a result I thought that academia, industry, and government were all invested in the survival of our family farm. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 23, 2024
Farm Hounds Family farms often struggle to stay profitable as agriculture becomes more concentrated. There were 141,733 fewer farms in the US in 2022 than in 2017, according to the Census of Agriculture. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.
UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create.
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