Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Selecting the right type of hay for your livestock is a critical decision that can significantly impact their health, growth, and productivity. We've added information about different types of hay, the nutrients in hay, and the needs of different types of livestock. Without this livestock cannot function.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Mike Morris, NCAT Agriculture Specialist “When I was in college, I was taught that you fed hay and grain, and the pasture was just something you put the animals out on to look pretty, or just to get a little bit of supplement. I had to really change the way that I think to make that switch.

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West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Understanding your soil’s fertility and nutrient composition is critical to informed decision-making. Instead of relying on guesswork, soil testing empowers producers to make targeted fertilizer applications, maximizing their resources and improving forage production.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. The first question to ask is: do you really need to take on the work of establishing cover crops in pastures? The principal concern with no-tilling cover crops into perennial pasture sod is plant competition.

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West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Knowing your soil’s fertility and what nutrients are provided is crucial. Often, producers just put out the same fertilizer they always have and hope for the best. Soil fertility and health is essential for forage production. Performing a soil test is one of the most underutilized range management tools.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

LIVESTOCK: Use automated feeders so you don't have to worry about forgetting when each animal needs their next meal — the feeder takes care of everything automatically when programmed correctly. This might not be as great for chickens since you have to pick up the eggs anyway but for other livestock, it can save you some time.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Meanwhile, there are fewer but larger pasture and grazing operations, reflecting broader national trends. Fewer But Larger Pasture and Grazing Operations Pasture and grazing land serves as an important part of the national conservation picture. million acres, the amount of cropland used for pasture has steadily declined.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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West Texas Livestock

JANUARY 29, 2024

Really, it is the foundation of any plan to improve the output of your pastures. Knowing the amount of nutrients present can be beneficial when […] The post How to retrieve the most from your soil test appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. 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. He hunted hogs, ducks, crabs and fish. To his surprise, it was a lot of fun. “I

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He was paid to plant it by the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program , a local effort that seeks to reduce overall fertilizer use by building soil—therefore cutting down on the nutrients that enter waterways—while helping farmers save money. Each farm can qualify for a maximum of around $15,000 in payments per year.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This proposition runs counter to the overwhelming consensus in the scientific, research, policy, NGO, and medical establishment that livestock, in general, and ruminants, in particular, are part of the problem in terms of climate. However, before you dismiss me as a heretic, I’ll try and set out the arguments which justify this statement.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Silvopasture, or mixed trees and livestock, is one form of agroforestry.

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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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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

Assess your livestock's grazing potential. Before you can implement a grass-fed cattle program, you need to assess your livestock's grazing potentials. Climate conditions: growing season in your area will determine how much time is available for grazing and how often you can rotate animals through different pastures. .

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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. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. Extend living vegetation (no fallow) 5.

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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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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

With the current high cost of synthetic fertilizers, and even supply chain disruptions, managing the manure resource properly becomes a critical farm task. Manure is the primary fertility source in organic farming systems. Conventional wisdom asks, “What can go wrong with adding organic matter and natural fertilizer?”

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care. Healthy Pastures: Overgrazing can lead to soil erosion, reduced plant diversity, and degradation of the land.

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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. Deer, for example, help cycle nutrients and fertilize soil. That’s a common phenomenon and a common problem all around the There are better ways to protect livestock from predators , however.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

However, managed pastures with legumes, high-quality hay, and minerals can help keep goats healthy. As these creatures munch through fields, they fertilize the soil and create a harmonious cycle of nutrient replenishment. Getting Started in Livestock, Part 1 Episode 228. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock.

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The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We talked about fake meat and the anti-livestock craze to save the planet from incinerating. Livestock must go. We need to tell children that hamburgers grown with mob stocking herbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization heal the planet. They can’t eat a chicken casserole or enjoy bacon and eggs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That means that when there is a heavy rainstorm, the soil will keep absorbing it even while less fertile soils let the rain (and associated nutrients) wash off into nearby bodies of water. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pasture fertility, healthy livestock, reduced nutrient runoff, all thanks to dung beetles. Even if you’re not a romantic, there are still plenty of other reasons to love dung beetles: it’s estimated that they provide millions of dollars’ worth of nutrient retention and pest fly reduction per year.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Planting, harvesting, breeding, raising livestock all require a period of waiting, but there are forms of waiting that can be minimized in farming operations, such as equipment repair, delayed harvest times due to unavailable labor, and delays of shipments of agricultural inputs.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop. Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Regardless of the approach, implementing crop rotation is crucial for maintaining soil fertility, minimizing pest and disease issues, and ensuring sustainable agriculture practices. Avoid overgrazing your pasture lands.

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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. He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. And everywhere he looked, trees had leafed out.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is reflected in the increase of interest in meat with more ethical credentials, including pasture-fed, local and organic. The majority of livestock farmers care deeply about their animals and want them to have a good quality of life. Within the Global Farm Metric, livestock is included as one of the 12 categories.

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