National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities. Sustaining funding for these programs is vital to continuing to build a more resilient and agile food system.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed.

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Caff

MAY 18, 2023

Ken Walker of Pasture 42 in Guinda, CA then walks us through how they incorporate sheep and poultry into their orchards, which were designed with animal integration in mind. Both expand on the benefits and challenges of integrating livestock, as well as considerations for pasture, rotational grazing, and food safety.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This is where data becomes not only invaluable but imperative, helping farmers grow more food while conserving resources; farming smarter, not harder as the saying goes. And if we're smart, we can better understand how to grow the food consumers want, closer to where they live. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. billion farmers globally, and which in July released a statement taking “a resolute stand” against lab-grown food. The lab at Good Meat. Photography by Good Meat.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

On a farm like ours, 10,000 pastured chickens can provide one full-time salary. billion would be enough to support 38,000 full-time pastured poultry farmers. If a full-time salary requires at least 300 of these per year, that’s enough for 21,000 full-time pastured pork operations. It’s 380 million chickens at $20 each.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Many of you realized that this is not what I’m advocating instead of pasture, but some folks jumped to the conclusion that I had all of a sudden abandoned outdoor chickens in favor of indoor protocols. I didn’t say to quit pasturing chickens. That would no doubt reduce rat food in New York City. No shipping. No buying eggs.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork. Most of their beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are marketed directly to consumers and local restaurants. He continues to learn and study through reading and visiting with other farmers.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

As the impacts came into focus, advocates and experts who had been pointing to the chicken industry as a model for how food corporations could make real progress toward improving practices that threaten public health looked on in dismay. Julia Johnson, the leader of CIWF’s Compassion in Food Business in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. Then there’s the Walmart Foundation, which last year gave the Nature Conservancy $1.5

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Adam’s and Elizabeth’s goal is to be a whole, complete-diet farm that offers heirloom fruits and vegetables; goat milk, kefir, and cheese; culinary and medicinal herbs; eggs; and pastured, lamb, goat, and poultry.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 And that’s by design. It’s not apples to apples.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 23, 2021

In some cases, the Standards have devolved from the original intention of OFPA, as in the example of enclosed poultry porches substituting for outdoor access. The pasture compliance which large organic livestock producers circumvent openly and aggressively. Grain fraud.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 13, 2022

If you’ll recall, SUPERSIZE ME was an experiment in which Spurlock ate only McDonald’s food for a month. He nearly died as a result and it made a stunning point: McDonald’s food is poison. In this new movie, he decides to open a fast food restaurant and serve chicken. Same house, same feed, same everything as Tyson.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The production facilities are also producing high protein animal feed and distillers corn oil which goes into poultry feed market or renewable diesel and biodiesel. His research focuses on economic decision-making throughout the food supply chain from agricultural production to consumer demand.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By prioritizing animal wellness, farmers not only ensure the ethical treatment of their livestock but also contribute to the long-term viability of their operations and the overall health of the food system. This plays a big role in how consumers make purchasing decisions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. Yet, many communities in the world’s drier regions depend upon a different animal: the camel.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf. over that period).[2]

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

USPOULTRY ’s Women’s Leadership Conference provided attendees with a slate of speakers to facilitate career growth and development among women leaders in the poultry and egg industry.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Is it beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, etc? You can also talk about any special ideas you have, like a locally sourced vegetable food truck, u-pick berry patch, CSA, Airbnb, or events. This can also be an add-on to your current business. Business Concept : Clearly state the type of crop or livestock you will raise.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Every year, we honor change-makers, trailblazers and those giving back to their local food and agricultural communities. Farmer Advocate of the Year: Patricia Miller Patricia Miller is a farmer, activist and food systems catalyst. From innovative farmers to grassroots organizers, these are the people who give us hope for the future.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. First of its kind, the act addresses climate change throughout much of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) programming–not only that which affects farmers, but elements that shape the larger food system, as well.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

According to the Food Marketing Institute, organic food purchasing is driven more by lifestyle than demographics, so seek out locations that appeal to the organic lifestyle. People like knowing where their food comes from, and if they like you… they are more likely to like your eggs, and become repeat customers.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Yet global warming is steadily affecting fisheries and farms around the world and the foods they yield. They also cause power outages and disrupt transportation and distribution, which increases the price of all goods, including food. Staple Ingredients in Short Supply Climate change has affected the supply of other foods, too.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In recent years, the desire to grow or produce ones own food has become increasingly popular, and with good reason. After living through a pandemic and struggling with ongoing high grocery prices (particularly rising costs for poultry and eggs), many people are ready to make a change for themselves. A Rhode Island Red chicken.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This project material is based upon work that is funded and supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Leo and Judy moved to the Shenandoah Valley region in 1981.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In this business, you have to wear a lot of hats and be ready to jump in when and where you’re needed,” says Mosser, a principal at Seven Hills Food, an independently owned, USDA-inspected meat-processing and packaging plant in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia. Consolidation also puts the nation’s food supply at risk.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. Throughout the RPFSA, numerous provisions take consequential steps toward a more equitable food and farm system.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These hedgerows not only help to create important areas of food and cover for a wide range of birds and other animals, but they also maintain critical travel corridors that help wildlife to move from one section of habitat to another.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The food and farming sector goal switched from efficiency to resiliency. First, would America’s food system have convulsed as violently if instead of 300 mega-processing facilities employing 5,000 people apiece we funneled our food through 300,000 community-scaled 20-50-employee facilities? CHEAP FOOD VERSUS PRECIOUS FOOD.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Parents rattled off reports of what they had seen at various places, from the big box outlets to the local food co-op, from high-end Whole Foods to discounters like Grocery Outlet and WinCo. poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The impact of the Israel-Gaza war on food and farming is one aspect of a complex situation that we seek to reveal in this piece by our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Megan Perry. According to the World Food Programme , the Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Although it is generically called the “farm” bill, it is really a food and farm bill that funds programs covering crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as nutrition-assistance support for low-income households. EN: Let’s start by talking about food insecurity.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association just released a 4-day synopsis of exterminated chickens and it's unnerving. Weekly Disease Update 2/4-2/10 POULTRY CASES 2/4/25: Dauphin Co., PA, WOAH Non-Poultry, 30 Mercer Co., MI, WOAH Non-Poultry, 8 Worcester Co., CO, WOAH Non-Poultry, 10 Stanislaus Co.,

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