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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

Farmbrite

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. By purchasing ingredients in bulksuch as grains, soybeans, alfalfa, and other feed componentsand mixing your own, you can lower your per-animal feed cost significantly.

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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

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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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Top 6 Tips to Raise Healthy Layer Chickens

Farmbrite

You can find feed that has pea protein and other grains in place of corn and soy. 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. Phosphorus.

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Photo Essay: Standing in the Gaps With Feed Durham

Civil Eats

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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What a Trump or Harris Presidency Will Mean for Farmers and Eaters

Modern Farmer

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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