Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Pasture-raised”?

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Many farms choose to create their own homemade animal feed from ingredients that are easily accessible, affordable, and tailored to the dietary needs of your livestock. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study Buck and AJ Holsinger Rockingham County, Virginia Holsinger Homeplace Farms is a family farm in Rockingham County in the central Shenandoah Valley. Buck and Amanda (AJ) Holsinger and their children are the tenth and eleventh generations to live on the farm.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. Community land trusts retain ownership of the property while the farmer pays a tenancy back to the trust to farm the land.

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Caff

MARCH 4, 2022

Do you sell your produce as organic, local, free range, grass fed, etc. She charges a fee of $6,500 per farm/application. Interested in applying for the USDA's Value Added Producer Grant? OR make a finished product from your produce? Are you interested in exploring the feasibility of doing so?

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Farmbrite

MARCH 27, 2023

The Easter Egger also makes an excellent forager, so if you want to let your flock free range and scratch around for their own food in the yard, this breed will likely do well at it. This means they excel as free range chickens. They do best as a free range bird, and thrive in both hot and cold climates.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The report states, “a UK-wide transition to sustainable and regenerative farming practices, to tackle the climate, nature and public health crises, could produce enough food to maintain and potentially even improve current levels of self-sufficiency, provided we ate differently, ate less and cut food waste.”

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 18, 2024

Are you a farmer looking for support for farm stress or other mental health challenges? Our partners at Farm Aid manage a 24-hour hotline. Whether you are a beginning or established farmer, you can call their Farmer Hotline at 1-800-FARM-AID. A recording of the conversation can be found here.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

Some Tips for Effective Farmer Stands: Farm Stand Location: Choose a location that is not only high traffic, but also heavily populated by your target market (i.e. If your eggs are organic or free-range, be sure to communicate it! Feel free to have signage that sings the praises of the egg’s taste and quality.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What you put into your animals – from clean stalls, fresh grown pastures, to clean food and attention makes the flavor better, says Kate Osgood, who runs Birch Rise Farm , in New Hampshire, raising chickens and turkeys. They love to free-range and forage, and this wild diet will improve the flavor of their large eggs.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The most successful farms are willing to explore multiple income streams. Heres a closer look at whats involved with marketing and selling to restaurants as a farm to help you determine whether its the right fit for your farming operation. Not every farm is set up well for selling to restaurants.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move. This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The project aimed to highlight distinct and diverse farms of Virginia’s agricultural community through a narrative inquiry framework. Most of their meat sales are sold through their on-farm store. Additionally, Bramble Hollow Farm invested in an on-farm commercial kitchen to diversify and add value to what they grow and offer.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. A significant shift towards meat-free diets has also been, in part, driven by concern for the welfare of animals in the food industry.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 6, 2023

Mortality rates for layers in a normal poultry farm can be in the 1-5% range. For instance, if you have free-range chickens you face different challenges than those who are managing chickens in confinement. Take a look at Farmbrite for your farm management. Start a free trial today.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

For the event, we partnered with Farm Church , whose pastor/master gardener fielded endless gardening questions with grace and patience while giving away seeds, plant starts, and oak saplings donated by a community member.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. The Benefits of Animal Wellness Practices on the Farm Animal wellness brings numerous benefits to your farm, enhancing the quality, productivity, health, and stability of animals.

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Agwired

MARCH 17, 2025

livestock, poultry and farmed aquaculture consumed approximately 283.6 is high in protein, low in fat and cholesterol, free range, Halal certified and has no added hormones or antibiotics key claims sought by a growing number of Americans. In 2023, U.S. million tons of feed, according to the IFEEDER report.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 9, 2024

As attorney general in California, she appealed a federal ruling that nixed California’s foie gras ban , and defended California’s law requiring humane, free-range facilities at egg farms. Net farm income hit $165 billion between 2021 and 2023, compared with $94 billion between 2017 and 2019.

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