Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

This means you'll waste less time, money, and resources on things that don't contribute much value or might even be detrimental to your farm's growth (like using expensive fertilizers when cheaper ones work just as well). Divide Pastures into Paddocks : Divide your grazing area into smaller paddocks, pens, or pastures.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. “Plus, they tasted significantly better than what we got at the store.” I was so excited. Things started working.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The same applies for CO2 in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse gas effect, however carbon sequestered in the soil from the atmosphere via photosynthesis has many co-benefits to build soil fertility and soil structure so that the soil can retain more water.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

There are benefits to doing so - grass-fed beef is leaner and healthier than conventional grain-fed beef, and consumers are increasingly aware of these benefits. But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Here are a few tips that will help make the transition easier: 1.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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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. Photo submitted.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Single axle grain carts and large combines are the worst offenders, but manure tankers and larger tractors also easily exceed 10 tons/axle. Grain carts run in the previous track made by the combine. There is only enough corn in the grain cart to pay the driver’s salary for two months, but the compaction will last a lifetime.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Interactions with organic matter Organic matter plays a vital role in soil fertility and nutrient cycling, including molybdenum dynamics. Application of molybdenum-containing fertilizers or organic amendments such as compost can help alleviate deficiencies.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I’ve converted cropland to grassland, transitioned to organic, planted more than 6,000 trees and shrubs as well as perennial grains like Kernza, started rotationally grazing livestock, and added fencing and waterlines—all while making a home for a diversity of wildlife.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

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.

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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

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But despite the often harsh conditions, agriculture is a key cog in the Australian export economy, with grazing livestock and cereal grain production being the two major pillars. This would not only slash methane emissions but also reduce the land use impact of livestock by eliminating the need for extra grain production as feed.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Multi-species Cropping—Experimenting with Crop Trials Using 28 Varieties Before Tim came back to the farm, his uncle Doug had been experimenting for a couple of years with winter grazing of multi-species cropping—relying on a handful of different plants—for improved pasture and cattle outcomes. “We What were the results of the crop trials?

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” He’s especially proud of the fact that because of his self-sustaining system that produces natural fertilizers for his crops, he hasn’t purchased a pound of nitrogen since 1982. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 145

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

We’ve gradually built up a herd that is adapted to its local environment and able to thrive on a diet of unimproved pasture of wild herbs and grasses. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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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.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The impact that the drought is having on pasture is forcing the culling of cattle and reducing the cattle herd.” Instead, while there is plenty of uncertainty, the most likely causes are fewer cattle burping methane and less fertilizer use. This coincided with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which disrupted fertilizer supply chains.

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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.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 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

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Some of the farmers decided to plant more cover crops or adopt prescribed grazing plans for healthier pastures. They have seen, for example, that farms that implement practices the USDA considers climate-smart can reduce their need for expensive inputs like fertilizer.

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