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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I even switched co-ops because the fertilizer dealer couldnt comprehend what I was doing, he says. For the Berglers, farming has become a family affair with daughters Willa, Malia and Emery assisting with the overall farming operation and their own pasture-raised enterprises. Bergler routinely swaths and combines a 23.3

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Here is the kicker: Adaptability directly translates to fertility, which are very important traits required in any profitable cattle operation. Soil health principles are real, adaptive stewardship can drive the ecosystem processes, but it is up to management to dictate the species composition of our pastures for regeneration to take place.

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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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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Richard reports, stunningly, that he is sequestering 10 times more carbon than the farm is omitting, and this is despite the fact that he built his fertility with beef cattle. The equivalent impact in the pastures of the west of the UK is when you see a field that that suddenly goes yellow. That is also Roundup.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Above those temperatures, heat stress causes cattle to produce less milk and decreases their fertility. He inherited the land from his grandfather, who spent decades tearing trees out of the ground in favor of growing corn and soybeans, using chemical fertilizers for years. according to the industry group American Farm Bureau.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll. It’s not a widespread problem yet, but it’s rearing its ugly head in some places,” says Calderon.

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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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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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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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