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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

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Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. In this post, we've created some recipes or a cookbook and a step-by-step guide to making livestock feed for your herd.

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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

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Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. This shows that investing in animal wellness creates a healthier, more efficient, more profitable and more sustainable farm operation.

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How To Sell To Restaurants As A Farmer

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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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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

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. Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis.

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Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study

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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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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

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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Measuring and Valuing: Animal welfare

Sustainable Food Trust

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.