UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. Each year provides new opportunities to incorporate more regenerative practices.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. Across the board, farms have been merged into just a few big companies that control most food sectors.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Since the resurgence of regenerative agriculture, farming has never been sexier. The star-studded film Kiss the Ground , featuring celebrities Woody Harrelson and Tom Brady, put the movement on the map in 2020, claiming that regenerative farming could be the solution to, not the cause of, climate change, biodiversity loss and soil erosion.

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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. The system was created by a Norwegian company called Nofence , and Molly and Sam are among 43 pilot farms testing it ahead of an official United States debut expected in early 2024. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. Across the board, farms have been merged into just a few big companies that control most food sectors.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. milk supply, mostly on industrial farms in the Central Valley. These farms hold, on average, around 2,300 cows. Herds in Wisconsin, the second-largest producer, average 177 cows.)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Recently we held a goat production class out in Luling, Texas, at the marvelous S3 Legacy Ranch. If you have an unkempt area on a farm, some highly predator- resistant fencing and a few goats will get it under control tout de suite! That’s a great trait for land-clearing.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Fertilizers and animal manures are a special case, because whether the ultimate result is net positive or negative depends on how they are managed. Overapplying fertilizers or manure (especially high N fertilizers or anaerobic pit manure) can create nutrient imbalances, increase salt loads, and disrupt soil function.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Industry groups should make it clear to members that cover crops and more in-season application must become part of all manure management plans and programs. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

These factory farms not only force animals to live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, they also produce copious amounts of manure, which can cause water pollution and other health hazards. Calves stick their heads out of pens at a farm near Healdsburg, California. farm is 464 acres.) Reichardt Duck Farm settled the suit.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The aggregation of huge numbers of livestock in these operations results in the largely anaerobic digestion of the concentrated manure and urine of these animals, which releases (you guessed it) even more methane and carbon dioxide.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In addition to an increasing dependence on monocropping in Oaxaca, Martínez cited factors such as the growth of the local ranching industry and the explosion of unsustainable ecotourism practices as additional pressures that endanger agricultural diversity in the region. And the other is that the young people just don’t want to keep farming.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Our family farm in Northeast Iowa with 3% SOM in the top six inches has about 67,000 lbs. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. Too little flow of carbon to feed soil microbes is one of the most common problems we encounter on farms. Did you spot the missing arrow?

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MAY 10, 2023

The recently published version a comprehensive, and very helpful, livestock policy handbook that outlines all our Colorado policies and regulations that livestock owners must follow to continue their farming business. This covers water saving techniques, grazing management techniques, and manure management techniques, to name a few.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the publication also presents planned solutions to reduce emissions and transform toward increasingly robust farming systems. Despite the challenges ahead, substantial reason for optimism lies both in suggested routes to emissions reductions and adaptation of farming systems. from Chapter 22 of NCA5.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Avoid the never-ending scroll on streaming platforms and instead refer to our list of recommended food and farming films, especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. He has been born and grown in the Valley and his wish from when he was a small boy, is that he wanted his own farm.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation. He combined it with a smaller ranch called La Cense, which he bought the same year. But they have to be big.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia Ranch, her business in British Columbia, she did it with a direct interest in fiber art. Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. For many sheep farms, wool is not a viable income stream. She started pelleting in June of 2022.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Robert Bonnie, USDA Unlike with organic farming, climate-smart farming has no list of allowed or prohibited practices.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. Just three years earlier, Kimbirauskas had gotten wind that Foster Farms was planning to move into her own home of Linn County, Oregon and decided to fight back.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. Just three years earlier, Kimbirauskas had gotten wind that Foster Farms was planning to move into her own home of Linn County, Oregon and decided to fight back.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. Before him sat a small crowd dotted with cowboy hats.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s late October and Jon Griggs, manager of Maggie Creek Ranch in Elko, Nevada, still has more than a thousand Angus-cross calves left to wean. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Although it is generically called the “farm” bill, it is really a food and farm bill that funds programs covering crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as nutrition-assistance support for low-income households. The trillion dollar question: Is Congress paying any attention?

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