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. Diaz is not alone in making this shift, but he may be ahead of the game. Davis Med Center.

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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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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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AgriLife Today

MARCH 27, 2024

David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University expands seating Seating has been expanded for the award-winning and renamed David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University, which is scheduled for April 8-12 at Texas A&M University in Bryan-College Station.

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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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USDA Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

One week on the job can take organic inspectors from a field crop farm to a dairy pasture or food production facility. Inspectors audit organic farms, ranches, and businesses to verify that they follow the USDA organic standards.

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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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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Event features talks on pest control, aquatic vegetation management The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a continuing education workshop at the Wichita Falls Ranch and Farm Expo in Wichita Falls on March 8. The event will be from 8:45 a.m.-3:30 at the J.S. Bridwell Ag Center, 111 N. Burnett St., with registration.

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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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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For this month we’re highlighting a farm that provides their community with a wide range of delicious food, Red Gate Ranch. Before the Farmer’s Guild and CAFF joined together, we met Evan at a farm business meeting. Q&A Why did you start to ranch/grow food? ” Where do you see your ranch in 5 years?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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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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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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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For Black Dog Farm in Livingston, Montana, the early COVID lockdowns were a boon for business. Skoglund harvested nearly a bison a week out in his pastures last year to meet consumer demand. Left: Instead of trucking his bison to slaughter, Matt Skoglund drives out into the pasture and loads his rifle. There are 2.5

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. In this series of articles, I will walk through how we are implementing the Six Principles of Soil Health on our beef and hay farm and how those principles provide the pathway for our regenerative farming journey.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. I was really in tune with the movement of the seasons and the farm cycle—and I enjoyed that.” I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 According to U.S.

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” She and her husband started ranching in their late 20s, and they’ve been at it for more than 40 years now. “We But then, she’s had to.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Forage producers around the state are battling fall armyworms to defend high value pastures and fields for hay and grazing,

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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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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

By Allison Cooley-Agee , NCAT Carbon Farm Planner In today’s world, fast fashion is everywhere, but we often forget about the journey from soil to fabric. Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. On family ranches, taking care of the soil is crucial for producing high-quality wool.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SweetRoot Farm is pitched squarely in the middle of a long and narrow mountain valley, framed by the Bitterroot Mountains on one side and the Sapphire Mountains on the other. The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The news hasnt really shown the devastation wreaked on the farms and forests in our area. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. Gene has a small beef farm with 15 cow/calf pairs and raises 1.5 I have never seen so much damage.

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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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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. In its second year, the Challenge sought submissions from around the world for innovations that can help solve the unique challenges facing small farms and local food systems.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rotational Grazing, Keyline Design for Maximizing Water, and Food Forests for the Future By Trina Moyles While Ian Griebel grew up on his family’s mixed farm south of Castor, Alberta, he never thought he’d one day become a farmer. Griebel studied carpentry and pursued his journeyman certificate, and envisioned a life away from the farm.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

As farm and ranch managers, we control the timing, intensity, duration, frequency and pattern of the disruptions. To be effective in building resiliency in our farm and ranch operations, implementing our disruption cannot violate the Six Principles of Soil Health. It was completely white, as if it had been painted.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. I’m open-minded about it.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 23, 2024

This year’s winners of the Soil Your Undies challenge are Liz and Randy Mittag of Shadow Ridge Ranch. The Mittags run a beef farm in River Falls that aims to raise cattle in a way that helps the land and connects the community to their food.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

His 10 Layers of Permanence build on the work of Yeomans; you will never see your farm, ranch, or homestead the same way once you’ve encountered his thinking. Perhaps no one in America has a better handle on genetics and low-input ranching and farming than this experienced producer. He’s a great marketer, too.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

María Petronila Gutiérrez, whose farm La Miranda was one of the first to join Amazonian Farms. Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. A typical farm in the foothills of the Amazon in southern Caquetá. Image by Antonio Paz.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farm real estate will likely become a nearly $3.5 percent of total farm sector assets. farm sector, real estate accounts for $4 of every $5 in assets. That is what makes it such an important indicator of a farm’s resilience. In 2023, farm real estate value rose $280 per acre to an average of $4,080. That is a 7.4

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, this relatively simple feeding system begins to fall apart when you get hit by drought; forage isn’t growing in your pasture and the price of hay goes through the roof. In this episode, we are joined by Barry Yaremcio of Yaremcio Ag Consulting Ltd to learn more about feed alternatives.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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