Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Through their Conservation Ranching Initiative , the Audubon Society works with ranchers to sustainably steward grasslands. Ranches that meet the Initiative’s standards for conservation are able to sell meat products with the Audubon Society’s bird-friendly seal. according to the Audubon Society.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Laslo Legacy Award from Wheatland County for their exemplary leadership in integrating environmental farm and ranch practices at Valley View Ranch.

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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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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Biological nitrification inhibition trait in sorghum may allow reduced fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions The post Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to minimize nitrogen loss in crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Long-running event renamed thanks to David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University Endowment The award-winning and newly renamed David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University is scheduled for April 8-12 at Texas A&M University in Bryan-College Station. Registration is open and seating has been expanded to the first 70 enrolled.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For instance, farmers in the Southern region face acidic, low-fertility soils, intense weed, pest, and disease pressures, along with marketing and infrastructure constraints. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. The reasons vary, but common culprits include excessive N fertilizer use and the loss of organic matter. Its much more complex than that.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Its much more complex than that. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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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. This is exactly how I was forced to adopt adaptive stewardship during a multiyear drought on my own ranch in Chihuahua.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. On one of the plots, Tim and Doug planted a standard mix using cereals only—a barley and oats mix—and added fertilizer to help with tonnage. What were the results of the crop trials?

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Now let’s take a look at some of the economic costs and benefits of addressing erosion on farms and ranches. One common way to put a value on soil is to determine how much fertilizer it would take to replace the lost nutrients. I added the fertilizer values a few years back so prices may be higher or lower now.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business.

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RR2CS

JULY 4, 2023

In terms of grazing, poly-crop blends are useful in reaching a number of grazing goals including increasing productivity, improving soil health, providing grazing, and perhaps even reducing the need for inputs such as fertilizer. Event Name: Poly-crops: Harnessing Grazing Power Location: Irish Creek Bison, near Elk Point, AB.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have just masked the symptoms of lost topsoil and poor soil function with added fertility, pesticides, and other technological and engineering fixes. How we manage our farms and ranches is a choice. Land degradation is as severe as ever. These interventions do not repair broken ecosystem processes, they just treat the symptoms.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia Ranch, her business in British Columbia, she did it with a direct interest in fiber art. The solution didn’t appear until some time later, when another member of the wool industry gave her an idea: Turn the wool into pellet fertilizer. Left: Maksymiuk’s flock.

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AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

New Texas A&M AgriLife study examines wet, dry growing system Alternate wetting and drying, a rice irrigation practice dating back to the 1980s, is part of a broader Texas A&M AgriLife study investigating its potential to reduce water and fertilizer use. The practice is a water management system where rice fields are allowed to dry.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

Luense translates human disease and epigenetics expertise to livestock fertility Lacey Luense, Ph.D., spent the first 10 years of her career using live animal models to understand the mechanisms of the sperm epigenome and its role in human disease and development. But now, she is taking her epigenetics research program in a new direction.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 24, 2025

New plant technologies could reduce fertilizer levels, costs for producers The post AgriLife Research team to develop nitrogen-saving sorghum hybrids with DOE support appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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DTN

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ag retailers that offer products and services that support regenerative agriculture, such as low-carbon fertilizer, cover cropping solutions and eco-friendly pest solutions may be able to get ahead of competitors in a new marketplace. Because the amount of data associated with farming and ranching is only growing is scope and scale.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Fertilizers and animal manures are a special case, because whether the ultimate result is net positive or negative depends on how they are managed. On the other hand, poor fertility management can have a detrimental effect. Because they have reduced the outflow and increased the inflow of carbon.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

High-salt fertilizers add insult to injury by inhibiting soil biology and creating osmotic stress in plants. Fall tillage and fertility applications are common because some say, “There’s not enough time to do it in the spring.” The soil cannot properly digest months’ or years' worth of nutrients applied all at once. This is nonsense.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. 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.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

This produces good fertility and trample effect, but does not leave behind as many nutrients, C, and SOM. Perform the Haney Test annually on each major area of the ranch. The number and prevalence of flowering plant species should increase across the ranch. Soil test data includes the Haney Test, PLFA Test, and TND Test.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

farms and ranches are the backbone of America’s food and ag sector, the impact of decreased exports and resulting economic fallout reverberates throughout the economy. production of ingredients such as fertilizers, vitamins, and chemicals to maintain U.S. billion over the past ten years. While our two million U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

His love of the west generally and bison specifically led to a massive accumulation of ranch lands. Unlike Turner, Gates is buying cropland (farmland) not ranch land. This is why he's not buying ranch land. Interestingly, this crop land became fertile only after centuries of perennials under herbivorous choreography.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Recently we held a goat production class out in Luling, Texas, at the marvelous S3 Legacy Ranch. 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.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With funding from USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program, the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and its partners — Carbon Cycle Institute , Fibershed , New York Textile Lab , Seed2Shirt , and the Colorado State University Department of Soil and Crop Sciences — are ready to provide technical assistance and $18 (..)

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

About five years ago my wife and I bought a 200 acre ranch located in SE Washington state (about 40 miles west of Idaho and about 15 miles north of Oregon). We fertilized our alfalfa this morning and then I decided to go out and harrow the field. Today’s post has nothing to do with taxes.

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NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

While some agricultural and forestry projects might fit into the existing priority project categories, opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon through changes in farm, forest and ranch management would more appropriately fall under additional project categories. We urge the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

This legislation and subsequent entity became the framework for land use protections in Oregon and, over the last 50 years, has protected much of Oregon’s fertile farmland (as well as forest land and conservation land) by labeling it as “exclusive farm use.” What is a fertilized egg? Jones says it’s an opportunity for connection. “We

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