Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. Agroforestry is a sustainable land management approach that can be integrated into existing traditional crop and livestock systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Livestock farmers who practice regenerative farming, improving soil and biodiversity with methods such as rotational grazing, strive to waste nothing and can still wind up with leftovers. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. Amid growing public concern, last year the state instituted limits for PFAS in soil where dairy livestock feed is grown, and set up a $60 million fund to help affected farmers. We called b t,” Dostie remembers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

chemically based) farmland in the Green Alliance modelling got some strong push-back from the audience. As well as a compelling session on ‘ Local Abattoirs: Funding, Future Models and Next Steps’ , the SFT was the instigator of the immensely popular session, ‘What Role for Grazing Livestock in a Warming World?’

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Funding more and better conservation practices also helps grow farmers and protect farmland. The IRA conservation dollars fund programs that offer direct financial support to new and existing practices on farms and they are much more inclusive than commodity programs.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Just as a farmer might grow alfalfa as a cover crop on a fallow field, communities can install solar on a school’s rooftop, a parking lot, a brownfield site too expensive to remediate or on agrivoltaic -compatible land such as cranberry bogs or sheep pastures.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Summary of Marker Bills Converting Our Waste Sustainably (COWS) Act This bill would set up a new program in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions on dairy and other livestock operations. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Here, Brodie Crouch, a PhD student at The University of Queensland, unpacks how biodiversity and production win-wins can help livestock graziers to be part of the solution in tackling Australias extinction crisis whilst continuing to produce important nutrition. But its in trouble.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. All the pesticides and fungicides or whatever type of management that big farmlands like to use can have a direct and indirect effect on the mammals in the area,” Singh-Varma said. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The operation benefits everyone involved: Sheep farmer Frankie Iturriria gets paid for his time, the collaborating rangeland researchers are breaking ground , and the landowner BHE Renewables can maintain the property with sheep, which have less impact and are more cost-effective than mowers or other livestock. 688, told Civil Eats.

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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. reduce tillage), increase plant diversity, keep roots in the soil as long as possible, and integrate livestock. Each farm can qualify for a maximum of around $15,000 in payments per year.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. I have never seen so much damage.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland. For all of industrial farming’s success at feeding people and livestock and producing biofuel, the sector is also a major polluter, accounting for roughly 10 percent of U.S. But it should be.

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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. They have made an enormous dent in the number of mosquitoes and biting flies that plague me and my livestock during the summer.

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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.

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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. How often have you heard that said?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

. “As you’re structuring your cropping and the livestock rotations, you’re having to actively adapt, sometimes daily, to deal with the weather conditions.” 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. That’s his life. It means everything.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Sand County Foundation and national sponsor American Farmland Trust present the Leopold Conservation Award to private landowners in 27 states. The Copes raise a variety of livestock including grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb, acorn-fed pork and pastured duck and turkey.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The destruction of vital infrastructure and farmland, the mass displacement of people and the blocking of food aid has created acute food insecurity for the entire population of 2.2 Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. In the Gaza Strip, over a million people are facing catastrophic hunger.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings.

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