Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5

Poultry 98

Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

chemically based) farmland in the Green Alliance modelling got some strong push-back from the audience. The broad answer to this is yes – but it does require that we change how we eat, especially in relation to chicken and pork which would be reduced by around 75%, removing the vast amounts of imported grain that these animals are fed on.

Agroecology 78

Agroecology Food Livestock Farming 78

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” But Walmart’s business model appears otherwise unchanged, and its suppliers say the company’s foundational obsession with cost hasn’t waned. These initiatives may lead to real change.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Holistic land management that builds diversity of crops and livestock , adds perennials in the form of agroforestry and deep-rooted perennial grasses like grains, keeps the soil covered and living roots in the ground , and integrates livestock into the landscape all represent highly effective climate and agriculture solutions.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Compost 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. It’s a message that remains entrenched in America’s farmland today and fuels incredible revenues for seed/chemical companies. Grain prices began to fall and crops weren’t worth what farmers put into them.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

Ranching 111

Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. farmland is regularly cover cropped. The EPA’s latest National Rivers and Streams Assessment found close to half of the country’s waterways were in “poor condition,” and nutrients such as nitrogen are a leading culprit.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION.

Fertilizer 140

Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yet, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, more and more wildlife habitat is being taken away and turned into housing developments or converted into farmland. An easy way for farmers to do this is by allowing wildlife access to recently harvested or mowed fields.

Livestock 139

Livestock Crop Farming Farming 139

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I lived around farmland and was surrounded by farmers,” says Tim. “I Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We But Tim observed that the rested paddock yielded twice what the neighbouring pastures did, even though they’d been managed the same for 15 years. “It

Ranching 52

Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

I even played soccer next to a Cargill grain elevator.” It is designed specifically to incentivize overproduction of grain. Farmland is worth over $23,000 an acre right now in Iowa. But I really think a bigger conversation needs to be had over putting the farm bill out to pasture and stripping USDA for parts.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Marketing 145

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. The difference is profound.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52