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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Farming Secrets

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Pasture cropping is an alternative agricultural practice that combines two farming methods: minimum tillage and perennial grass cover. It positively impacts the environment since there is no reliance on inputs such as synthetic fertilizer and herbicides, and the soil quality is improved with almost zero erosion.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 27, 2025

Drought's impact on Ohio pastures remains uncertain. Farmers advised to plan for reseeding, soil testing and fertilization. OSU offers webinars on forage resilience and recovery strategies.

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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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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

One cause of self-inflicted soil acidification is the excess use of nitrogen fertilizers like ammonium sulfate and urea because two H + are released each time an ammonium (NH 4 + ) ion is converted to nitrate (NO 3 - ). 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Temporary grasslands, in the form of fertility-building leys, play a key role in more environmentally sustainable arable systems that don’t rely on costly, fossil fuel-dependent agrichemicals. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Potassium fertilizer prices have increased 45 percent in the past few years over the historical average, and finding ways to reduce the need for off-farm inputs of potassium can improve a farm’s bottom line. They then share different ways to manage soils sustainably and require less off-farm potassium fertilizer.

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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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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. For most areas in the temperate regions of the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. Left unchecked, they’re fertile ground, experts say, for harboring fecund grasses and other non-native plants, trees and even deer.

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Farms that receive this certification raise their animals in pasture or on range and allow the animals to behave and move in a way that supports their well-being. Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”?

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Caff

MAY 18, 2023

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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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 15, 2025

However, fertilizer, oil, and interest rates are expected to drop , although tariffs may reverse short-term prices and accessibility for some fertilizer inputs like potash. Will that last in 2025? In 2024, farmland values increased by five percent for total farm real estate, with an increase of 4.7 percent for cropland and 5.2

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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. A soil test can be a very effective tool in a producer’s toolbox. It can tell you the kind of nutrients that are available and the amounts that are present.

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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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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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DTN

AUGUST 1, 2023

states for 19 grain and pasture types. Indicators include fertilizer application and crop protection usage, irrigation, cover crop and tillage practices and equipment emissions. The initial data set offers an instant view into field-level sustainable agriculture practices and inputs across 35 U.S.

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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. The state has developed the country’s first meaningful thresholds for the chemicals in some foods and soil, has banned the use of sludge as fertilizer, and will, by 2030, ban the sale of all products with intentionally added PFAS.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This is correct, but what they don’t factor in is the inter-relationship between the emissions from those same grazing animals and the pastures they eat, which, if correctly managed, can be a major source of carbon sequestration.

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The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Back in May a video team spent 3 days here at Polyface filming my course titled RECLAIMING PASTURE. Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures. I created the content, outline, filming schedule and picked the locations where we’d film.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Fertile rainforests were razed for sugarcane fields, then abandoned after the industrys collapse in the 1990s. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. The approaches that my grandfather took to manage the land, and the way my parents turned a portion of it into a homestead, allowed me to watch it go from pasture to forest,” says Crombie. “My

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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

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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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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water. Wilde was forced to pipe water in.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

. • 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. The first step in implementing a grass-fed program on your farm is to determine how much fertilizer you'll need. These plants provide excellent nutrition for cattle.

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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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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This program includes row crop fields, pastures and specialty crops located within Indiana’s portion of the Mississippi River Basin. Indiana’s Mississippi River Basin Soil Sampling Program is now open to applicants.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

This method is beneficial for the long-term health of your pasture and ensures that the pasture isn't overgrazed. Compatibility With Other Crops: Some hay crops, like clover, can improve soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, making them good choices for crop rotation systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods. Their excrement, frass, is a rich fertilizer for agriculture.

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