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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the protein category, the new guidelines move meat, poultry, and eggs to the bottom tier, below seafood, nuts, seeds, and soy products. But no additional differentiation exists, like the difference between grass finished and grain finished beef, or pastured poultry versus factory farmed.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples of these investments are the Meat and Poultry Programs (MP programs), such as the Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG), Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) and Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which have helped smaller plants scale up or prepare themselves for federal inspection utilizing different sized grants and loans.

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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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Caff

MAY 18, 2023

Photo: Ansel Klein In this episode, we learn about integrated crop livestock management from two Northern California Farms. First, we hear from Lorraine Walker of Eatwell Farm in Dixon, CA, where they incorporate laying hens into their diversified vegetable production, and also touch on soil health and fertility management.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed. Optional: Poultry Premix 0.5-1%

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Jacob Gilley Madison County, Virginia Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a fourth-generation family farm that has been in operation since 1951. Jacob, his wife Jennifer, and their children operate the farm in Orange, Virginia.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Singing Spring Farm: A Soil for Water Case Study Adam Taylor and Elizabeth Spellman-Taylor Craig County, Virginia Adam Taylor and Elizabeth Spellman-Taylor co-operate Singing Spring Farm, which is in the Sinking Creek Valley in Craig County, Virginia.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Cornell’s Small Farms Program is accepting registration for several production-focused online courses in its second block for the season. Available course topics include cut flower production, poultry production, pastured pigs, mushroom cultivation, maple syrup production, vegetable and berry production, and woodlot management.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements. I’ll answer that.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. And that’s by design. Photo courtesy of Wil Crombe/Organic Compound.) Regenerative is a complex term with many interpretations.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

On a farm like ours, 10,000 pastured chickens can provide one full-time salary. billion would be enough to support 38,000 full-time pastured poultry farmers. If a full-time salary requires at least 300 of these per year, that’s enough for 21,000 full-time pastured pork operations. At that rate, $7.6

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. It’s no idle threat. anywhere in the world.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Linda Coffey, Margo Hale, and Dave Scott, NCAT Livestock Specialists With many parts of the country currently experiencing bitter temperatures, we’re re-posting this blog from March 2021 to offer potential livestock watering strategies for your farm during severe cold snaps. Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. The Benefits of Animal Wellness Practices on the Farm Animal wellness brings numerous benefits to your farm, enhancing the quality, productivity, health, and stability of animals.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. The big idea: Create chicken meat in a controlled setting, with no harm to animals and a drastic reduction of the issues associated with problematic factory farming practices.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 8, 2022

As avian influenza runs through the nation’s poultry flocks, with the current extermination of about 28 million laying hens and turkeys, I can’t help but wonder why we aren’t putting beak masks on the chickens. Hmmmm, I wonder if decentralization of poultry would be better than centralization. Notice that on one farm, 5.8

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

In chicken, the four biggest companies —Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride (owned by JBS), Wayne-Sanderson Farms, and Mountaire—control more than half of the market. At the heart of the issue throughout the industry is an overwhelmingly common poultry disease called coccidiosis, caused by a parasite that is almost universally present in chicken waste.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Selected from nominations that pour in from every corner of California by people like you, this year’s honorees represent the changing face of California farming and a commitment to equity, access and long-term sustainability. This duo is bringing new regenerative practices to their farm, while improving upon time-tested traditions.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 23, 2021

In some cases, the Standards have devolved from the original intention of OFPA, as in the example of enclosed poultry porches substituting for outdoor access. The pasture compliance which large organic livestock producers circumvent openly and aggressively. It's completely bogus. Hydroponics and aeroponics.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

They are natural phenomena which some have been clever enough to discern and codify so the rest of us can better understand how to work with them as guides in our farming, ranching, and even landscaping ventures. Hedgerows between farm fields provide a similar type of habitat and create yet more diversity to the system as a whole.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. Knauf: You have a family history of farming; your father farmed and so did your grandfather.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

USPOULTRY ’s Women’s Leadership Conference provided attendees with a slate of speakers to facilitate career growth and development among women leaders in the poultry and egg industry. September 23 and 24, alpaca business owners throughout North America will celebrate the 17th annual National Alpaca Farm Days.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Flat, sprawling farm fields fill the screen. She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon. As the planet faces a climate and biodiversity crisis, the family’s investments could coincide with a fundamental supply shift at Walmart, driving truly resilient, regenerative farming at scale.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. They’re also incubators of flu and related diseases, threatening humans with pandemics far less likely to spread from local mixed farming.[1] Their quality of life is poor. over that period).[2]

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Camels have been domesticated for some 4000 years, but they are not a conventional farm animal. In fact, until very recently they were not kept on farms at all. The world does not need industrial camel production, in fact we must strive to prevent camels following in the tracks of pigs, cattle and poultry.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

Some Tips for Effective Farmer Stands: Farm Stand Location: Choose a location that is not only high traffic, but also heavily populated by your target market (i.e. Be quaint, humorous, clever, or whatever makes you, your farm and your product distinctive. Or specialty products, such as organic, pasture raised or omega-3 eggs.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

farm income is on the decline, partly due to an anticipated drop in total cash receipts for key agricultural commodities. The 22 percent drop in farm income is due to a multitude of reasons, including higher input costs, fewer government payments, rising farm equity, and a decrease in cash receipts.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Yet global warming is steadily affecting fisheries and farms around the world and the foods they yield. Right, Andina’s shrimp ceviche with local ocean-farmed dulse seaweed. But over the past 15 years, he’s been collaborating with a farm in Corvallis, Oregon called Peace Seedlings. Here in the U.S., Photos by Anna Caitlin.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

After living through a pandemic and struggling with ongoing high grocery prices (particularly rising costs for poultry and eggs), many people are ready to make a change for themselves. Despite the ongoing threat of bird flu , many homesteaders consider poultry a great place to start when raising your own livestock.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The project aimed to highlight distinct and diverse farms of Virginia’s agricultural community through a narrative inquiry framework. Most of their meat sales are sold through their on-farm store. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives.

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