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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

Farmbrite

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. In this post, we've created some recipes or a cookbook and a step-by-step guide to making livestock feed for your herd.

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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. It's becoming more and more important to consumers to know how their food is raised and the transparency that companies show in the ethical treatment of animals.

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LIVESTOCK mRNA

The Lunatic Farmer

s DEFENDER has done us all a wonderful service by shining the light on the plethora of pharmaceutical efforts to create mRNA vaccines for livestock. The important thing to realize is that the popular backlash against off-the-shelf livestock antibiotic use came to a halt in 2021; these medications now require a veterinarian’s prescription.

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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

I’ve worked for the Sustainable Food Trust for over six years, and during that time I’ve tried hard to practise what I preach in terms of eating sustainably. I eat an average amount of food per day and try to waste as little as possible). Sounds positive in terms of providing a vision for a more sustainable system.

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How To Sell To Restaurants As A Farmer

Farmbrite

Identify target restaurants: Look for restaurants that promote local food, farm-to-table menus, or have a focus on seasonal ingredients. Chef research: Find out who the head chef is and what types of foods they like to prepare and sell. Market research lon your ocal restaurants : First things first, do your research.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. million full- and part-time jobs were related to the agricultural and food sectors in 2022, which equals 10.4 Without agriculture, jobs are lost; 22.1 percent of the total US employment.

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Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study

ATTRA

Buck and AJ started farming with the goal of feeding their family the healthiest food possible. Holsinger Homeplace Farms now provides other families excellent grassfed beef and eggs from free-range laying hens. Buck and Amanda (AJ) Holsinger and their children are the tenth and eleventh generations to live on the farm.

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