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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

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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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.

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Watching Grass Grow … From Space

Modern Farmer

Last year, Planet and Organic Valley completed a pilot program using satellite imagery to evaluate pasture health in service of regenerative rotational grazing. We have a small farm at home as well. My father initially started off plowing with a horse, and here we are talking about using satellite data to measure grass at home.

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Meet the Ranchers Trying to Restore Grasslands

Modern Farmer

In the spring, Steward moves her cattle out to pastures that have rested over the winter, but by the long heat of the summer, she’s wary of the ground getting too hot and baking, so she maintains a good litter cover while moving her cattle into shaded areas. In part, that’s because they keep disappearing. In 2021, roughly 1.6

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When Natural Disasters Strike the Farm, the Effects Linger

Modern Farmer

At the time, Corse was working off farm, while her parents transitioned their dairy into an organic operation. But Corse didn’t want the farm to disappear. She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows.

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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.