The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

We’ll have Abram Bowerman, a young 24-year-old farmer in the Midwest who is bootstrapping a sheep operation, self-financed, and fully employed. Three of our urban patrons will talk about why they buy pastured meat and poultry. With a totally new cast this year, let me give you the line-up. What do you do first, second, and third?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

And unlike utility-scale solar, where ratepayers finance large solar projects via new line items on their utility bills but do not necessarily see the savings, community solar subscribers directly benefit from solar savings—similar to how a home-owned array benefits an individual household.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. “I’m trying to figure out what it looks like to be wedded to a place with more of a conservation mindset while still producing food.”

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

You want to plant a 46-species cover crop mix in your cropping operation, produce grass-finished beef, pasture-raised pork, have laying hens and meat chickens, and market products at the local farmers market each weekend. In terms of context, it is easy to work with a producer in central Iowa and understand he doesn’t need to be growing rice.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The most carefully managed pastures can improve the quality of forage so substantially that they reduce the methane produced by grazing cattle, and carbon sequestration in pastures can more than offset the remaining greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 18, 2024

For instance, a pasture pig farmer might decide a good diversification for their soil health and finances is adding turkeys. In addition, adding diversity into rotations can change your crops in ways you might not have anticipated. Ideally, in positive ways, but it might take some adjustments before you get there.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 6, 2023

It can help you keep track of your crops and livestock, creating reports and alerts that tell you when to harvest or move animals to different pastures. FMS can help you keep track of your crops and livestock, creating reports and alerts that tell you when to harvest or move animals to different pastures.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down. Our range of loan options allows your financing to be as adaptable as you.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Building an array of financing options can enable different processors to provide more diverse services for producers as well. For processors that participate in a certification program, such as organic or pastured, this need is particularly acute.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. With her background in finance and HR, she recruits staff and sorts out the rota – not an easy task with 70 full and part time workers and casual labour in the peak seasons. We have to make sure we don’t do too much,” she says.

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OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Such impacts can become more pronounced with climate change, as more than 60% of forests, croplands and pastures are expected to be exposed to more frequent and severe droughts globally by the end of the century. Droughts also exacerbate other climate-related risks, such as wildfires.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

By installing solar panels above croplands or pastures, or by incorporating them into structures such as greenhouses or barns, farmers can produce both food and energy on the same land. Loan programs: Loan programs can provide financing for the installation of agrivoltaics systems.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Incentives to derisk the transition to more sustainable production practices such as carbon credits , ecosystem service credits , and creative financing solutions may play a crucial role in facilitating the transition. Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The church is remarkably untransparent about its finances,” Brunson said. Rex Ranch employees moving cow-calf pairs through a ranch pasture. Sam Brunson, professor of nonprofit tax law Loyola University Chicago School of Law and member of the church, said that as best he can tell, a description of the structure is not public anywhere.

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ATTRA

MAY 14, 2024

That course focuses on helping women farmers gain the knowledge and support and confidence to run their own farms, setting goals, managing soils and pastures and livestock, and working with processors and marketing the livestock products.

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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. Financed by DuPont, Borlaug is the father of a system that indentured America’s farmers with cycles of debt, scarcity, and dependency.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 16, 2024

But family farmers are also vulnerable to challenges including the climate crisis, lack of support and financing, and limited access to land resources and market opportunities, says Esther Penunia, the Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Financial institutions, including several UK banks, are also investing in piloting new finance schemes. xliii] Improved pastures managed using agroecological practices contain up to 41% more plant species than conventionally managed pastures, a level of species richness comparable with some semi-natural grasslands.

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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

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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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. However, research suggests that, despite the majority of people feeling concerned for the welfare of farmed animals, more immediate issues such as time pressures and finances, often dictate choices.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

Now you have [farm bill-funded] conservation programs that come out of the Dust Bowl and are now being used to finance hog confinements, a fact that Civil Eats has reported on extensively. But I really think a bigger conversation needs to be had over putting the farm bill out to pasture and stripping USDA for parts.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

Securing financing for the transition to regenerative practices is often difficult, and this financial strain can deter farmers from adopting sustainable methods, writes Laimonas Noreika , CEO and founder of European climate technology firm HeavyFinance.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

His first question: “What is different between your pastured chickens and the ones in regular industry houses?” The livestock vaccine industry is exploding, much of it financed by taxpayer money through government initiatives. My quick reply: “Mine don’t do drugs.” Pat: “Why do they use drugs?” Me: “To make them grow faster.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. The United States later financed a mill that would be run by a farmer cooperative. Melka wrote his shareholders to say that his attempts to obtain bridge financing had gone nowhere. “Oh, f**k,” he remembered thinking.

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