National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our next post in the series will explore what the Census shows us about local and regional food systems. The data provided by the Census of Agriculture is an essential and comprehensive tool for all stakeholders to understand what is happening in US agriculture and food. For instance, in fiscal year (FY) 2022 there were more than 3.13

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. Will Simkin’s wife, Penny, drops by. “We

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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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Livestock Grain Cattle Production 89

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years. The post Fifty years of nurturing nature first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust. The post Fifty years of nurturing nature appeared first on Sustainable Food Trust.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As part of a new, two-part series, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets with upland farmers in northeast England who explain why the shift to the new farm payments scheme – the Sustainable Farming Incentive – poses an existential threat for many upland farmers. Michael Walton: cutting costs but how?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

When two small Western grass-fed beef brands combined forces in the name of growth in fall 2022, Jeff “Trip” Tripician was tapped to lead the newly formed company, Grass Fed Foods. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2

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