Why pastured poultry is good fit for grassland farm
Farmers Weekly
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Farmers Weekly At Paddock Farm in Warwickshire, 300 Hy-line and Dekalb hens follow beef cattle around the grazing rotation, producing an average of 240 eggs a day.
Secrets to actually building a healthy, productive pasture
West Texas Livestock
JANUARY 5, 2025
A healthy pasture is the backbone of a successful livestock operationit provides the food that keeps your animals strong and growing. Plus, when your pasture is in good shape, it takes a big load off your wallet by cutting down on feed costs.
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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Trisha and Nolan Zachman farm in a small town two hours west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a fourth-generation farmer, Trisha says that her farm today looks a lot different from her childhood. Trisha grew up farming with her family, and she knew she would one day raise her own family on a farm.
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Farming Forward: What are the GRASS principles of advanced grazing?
Real Agriculture
MARCH 6, 2024
In this episode of the Farming Forward video series, Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching, explains the principle that stands for: G – Graze period R – Rest period A. Advanced grazing can be summed up in one word: GRASS. Read More Advanced grazing can be summed up in one word: GRASS. Read More
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Farming Forward: How to grow more soil with advanced grazing
Real Agriculture
APRIL 26, 2024
(Those are covered in this video) A soil pit in this pasture that Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching has grazed cattle on for about 20 years shows the results of using animal impact and strategic rest periods to build not just. Read More What does soil look like after 20 years of applying the GRASS principles? Read More
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Is pasture-raised beef better for the environment? It sure could be.
Food Politics
JANUARY 16, 2024
A reader, Kris, sent me this query: I hope in a future writing you can help sort out the mixed statements I’m reading about how pasture-raised meat lines up in terms of environmental/climate change concerns, (particularly if it doesn’t involve extensive shipping). So, I’m all for pasture grazing.
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Mind Your Farm Business — Ep. 90: Facing fear in business and in life
Real Agriculture
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Fear can be very motivating (ever been chased by a bull in a pasture?) Fear can be very motivating (ever been chased by a bull in a pasture?) but fear — of failure, of success, of the unknown — can also be paralyzing. Each person’s experience with fear is different, but it’s the very real stories of overcoming fear.
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Bare land blocks, castle ruin and Herefordshire farm for sale
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 24, 2023
Farmers Weekly Blocks of bare land and smaller farms are the main new offerings in the late summer market, some with unusual history and others presenting good commercial land. In Wiltshire, 44 acres of ring-fenced gently sloping pasture in four fields is about to be launched near West Knoyle.
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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy
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.
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Better cell service on the horizon, as companies report new milestones in offering satellite-to-smartphone service
Real Agriculture
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Telecommunications companies working to bring cell and data service to areas with poor connectivity by satellite have reached several milestones over the past week, raising hopes of better cell service for areas lacking coverage from existing cell towers, including many farm fields and pastures. Read More
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The Anatomy of a Pasture Walk
Wisconsin Farmers Union
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
What’s in a Pasture Walk? If you’ve been to one pasture walk or field day, you’ve almost certainly been to more because field days are like potato chips – once you try them, you can’t stop. However, getting to a field day or pasture walk can be tough with so many competing priorities in life. They’re incredibly valuable.
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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction
Farmbrite
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays. Understanding Data-Driven Farming Farming today is more than just relying on instinct or what was done in the past. What Kind of Data is Being Used?
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Farmer Led Trials Program Spotlight: Trouvaille Farm
Organic Farming Research
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Lindsay Klaunig runs Trouvaille Farm in southeastern Ohio. Raising grass-fed beef and goats on pasture, heirloom crops on the ridge tops and fruit trees throughout, this organic farm is a patchwork of diversity. And if so, will that lead to early mature harvest and overall higher yields?
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Ranchers Embrace Virtual Fencing for Greener Pastures
Modern Farmer
MARCH 27, 2024
Environmental benefits Regenerative grazing—or closely managing where and for how long animals forage—is a farming practice that can improve soil health and plant diversity. Each new boundary drawn by a rancher moves livestock onto a fresh paddock, allowing grazed pastures time to recover as livestock feed in a new location. “We
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Fall pasture management program Sept. 19 in San Antonio
AgriLife Today
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Weeds, pest management to be highlighted The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Bexar County will present the Fall Pasture Management program Sept. Read More → The post Fall pasture management program Sept. Read More → The post Fall pasture management program Sept. 19 in San Antonio.
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‘Quality Meat Going to a Quality Program’: Northwoods Farm Supplies WI Food Purchase Program
Wisconsin Farmers Union
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
In spring 2024 White Bison Farm was awarded a $15,000 contract to sell pork and bison to the Wisconsin Local Food Purchase Assistance (WI LFPA) program. Now the farm is providing high quality, nutritious food to the people in their community who need it most. Jodi is also the author of the book “Raising Pigs on Green Pastures”.
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On-Demand Webinar Addresses Conservation Activities in Organic Farming Systems
ATTRA
JANUARY 22, 2025
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is offering a free, on-demand webinar titled “An Overview of Technical Note 190-12: Conservation Activities in Organic Farming Systems Part 2: Organic IPM, Livestock, Pastures, and Buffers.”
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Walking in another’s rotational grazing pastures
AgriLife Today
JULY 17, 2023
Read More → The post Walking in another’s rotational grazing pastures appeared first on AgriLife Today. Like most ranch owners, he knows how each connects and contributes to a successful ranching operation. Ranching is a family affair for.
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Virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program set April 5
AgriLife Today
MARCH 21, 2024
Continuing education units available to participants The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program on April 5. Read More → The post Virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program set April 5 appeared first on AgriLife Today. The online program will run from 8:30 a.m.-3
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Growing Healthy Soil and Grass Regenerates Minnesota Farm, Farmer and Family
UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
By: Ron Nichols, Understanding Ag, LLC Every day on his farm, Luke Bergler sees the connection between healthy soil, healthy grass, healthy animals and healthy people. When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable.
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Close calls on the farm are lessons learned
Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Bow Creek Chronicles: Close calls in the field or the pasture serve as reminders not to repeat past mistakes, slow things down and be safe on the farm.
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Pasture Management Complete Guide
Agric4profits
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Pasture management is a vital practice in livestock farming, playing a crucial role in ensuring sustainable production and the overall health of grazing animals
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“Bristol’s last working farm”: A farm for the future
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Once they would have been joined by many other families whose produce fed the local population and whose farms were within Bristol’s city boundary. A hundred years ago, according to Catherine, there were 28 farms in South Bristol alone, several of them tenanted by her ancestors.
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How to Write a Business Plan For Your Farm
Farmbrite
MARCH 4, 2025
Whether you're a seasoned farmer or rancher , an aspiring farmer looking to venture intofarming or ranching, or a farm business owner who wants to have a strong plan as they transition into another farm business, its helpful to know how to write and use a business plan. It also shows commitment, professionalism, and organization.
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Silvopasture Increases Productivity for South American Livestock Producers
ATTRA
MARCH 10, 2025
In addition, the trees contribute to improved soil health and reduced moisture loss, so pastures are more productive and can support more animals. In addition, the researchers found that cattle on silvopasture produced less methane.
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New England’s best dairy farms
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
See this year’s Green Pastures Award winners.
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USDA Scientist Receives Award for Groundbreaking Work to Reconnect Crop and Animal Systems
USDA Blog
MARCH 27, 2024
Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist Sheri Spiegal received an exciting award recognizing her pioneering work integrating social science and biophysical science with stakeholder engagement to help animal producers and crop farmers improve the redistribution of manure nutrients from farms with an excess to fields and pastures that can use it sustainably. (..)
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Top Tips To Improve Farm Efficiency and Production
Farmbrite
MARCH 28, 2024
There's no doubt that modern technology has given us the tools to make our farming operations more efficient and productive. However, it can be hard to choose which practices to implement on your farm. Luckily, we’ve done the research and broken down the top tips for increasing efficiency and productivity on your farm.
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Farmer Portrait: Kirsten Marra, Wallingford, Connecticut
ATTRA
JANUARY 7, 2025
They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. Chris graduated from NCATs Armed to Farm training program, which helps veterans become farmers and ranchers. But these differences mean very little.
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Farmer Portrait: Chris Wellington, Wallingford, Connecticut
ATTRA
JANUARY 7, 2025
They raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, and animals on farms and urban gardens from New Hampshire to Kentucky, on operations that range in size from less than an acre to more than 40 acres. Chris graduated from NCATs Armed to Farm training program, which helps veterans become farmers and ranchers. But these differences mean very little.
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USDA’s guidance on meat labeling: still voluntary, alas.
Food Politics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The ASPCA issued a press release : “ASPCA Condemns Long-Awaited USDA Guidelines that Fail to Meaningfully Improve Oversight of Animal Welfare Label Claims” ASPCA’s labeling guide points out that claims for cage-free, humane-raised, and pasture-fed, for example, which often appear on the packaging of meat, egg and dairy products, may indicate better (..)
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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change
Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
Tom Farquhar planted several large plots of beneficial flowers around his vegetable farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. Once a conventional corn and soybean farm, the idea was to control pests at the Certified Naturally Grown operation by increasing the number of beneficial predator insects and spiders. Runoff from U.S.
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Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add Up
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Siewicki started Vital Mission Farm with the hopes of helping to create a more sustainable food industry. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first. A second mortgage and $80k in debt Siewicki found there was a lot of information out there about how to farm. But how do new farms get the first initial sale?
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Op-ed: Beginning Farmers Are at a Crossroads. Here’s How the Next Farm Bill Can Help.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Around 2018, Prusia received a second federal loan, this time from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), specifically geared toward women and minority producers. It allowed me to triple the size of my operation and have healthier animals—they’re up on pasture [on the new land],” she said.
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Promising Conservation Results in the 2022 Agricultural Census
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Conducted every five years, the Census of Agriculture is sent to every known agricultural producer in the country to ask important questions about their farms and how they manage them. Meanwhile, there are fewer but larger pasture and grazing operations, reflecting broader national trends. Since the 1997 high of 66.4
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Brainfood: Silvopastoral systems, Livestock sustainability, Brachiaria in Brazil, European haymaking, German Black Pied cattle, Mallards, Pollinators, Metabarcoding
Agricultural Biodiversity
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil. Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems. India, Brazil, China, Pakistan and Sudan, apparently. But would investment in Brachiaria -based silvopastoral systems in Brazil be a good thing?
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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands
Sustainable Food Trust
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Here, our Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour – who comes from a Perthshire hill-farm – writes about the often overlooked environmental and social benefits that well-managed Scottish grasslands can deliver. In recent years, Scotland’s grasslands have developed a bit of an image problem. more nuanced positions.
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As California Gets Drier, Solar Panels Could Help Farms Save Water
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”
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Regenerative Beef Gets a Boost from California Universities
Civil Eats
MARCH 4, 2024
Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive.
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Young Farmers Bring Small-scale, Humane Hog Farming Back to Iowa
Food Tank
JANUARY 5, 2024
Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My
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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese
Civil Eats
JULY 2, 2024
From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. 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.
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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move. Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. Others push into a strip of bushes, munching through brambles. This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears.
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The unseen costs of Tesco’s milk cutbacks: A threat to smaller dairies as mega-farms expand
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Holden Farm Dairy is one such unit.
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