Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. “The fence is inhumane: Elk behind the fence aren’t allowed to roam, move, look for healthy food and healthy waters.” For many, the tule elk are a clear priority.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. Americans now eat fast food one to three times a week on average. Between 1998 and 2023, our reliance on imported food has tripled. Eagle Rock Ranch. Cathryn Kennedy, food operations manager at the North Smithfield, R.I.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

restricts trade through tariffs on other countries products, American farm and ranch goods are often targeted for retaliatory tariffs or restrictive measures, putting farmers and rural communities on the front line of many trade disputes and jeopardizing American growers access to critical foreign markets. This also means that when the U.S.

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West Texas Livestock

JULY 31, 2024

Forages stop producing, making it difficult for ranchers to make food. This mode often involves taking extreme measures such as selling off a large portion of your herd […] The post How to really manage a ranch during drought appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. Drought can make things seem bleak.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center is offering grants between $3,000 and $15,000 that are designed to support small to mid-scale Wyoming food and farm businesses. To be eligible, applicants must participate in a course called “A Guide to Selling Wyoming Local Foods.”

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NASDA

JANUARY 22, 2024

They include the 2024 Farm Bill , food safety , labor reform , pesticide regulation and PFAS. These issues were chosen for the organization’s 2024 focus as NASDA members see urgent need for action in these areas to support farmers and ranchers in their ability to grow our nation’s food, fiber and fuel. territories.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Growing season is still a few months away herebut with exciting festivals like Sundance and SXSW taking place in this first part of the year,lets think about this time as the season of food and environmental storytelling!

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

By the early 20 th century, decades of timber-cutting and overgrazing had left the ranching region in southern states barren, its nutrient-rich native grasses replaced by a motley assortment of plants that made poor forage. I visited Hamilton’s ranch in November 2022, where they run about 45 cows and 150 bison. The southeastern U.S.,

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Centers are accepting applications for Small Grants up to $10,000 to support small to mid-scale Colorado food and farm businesses. This Small Grants program is one of two Colorado Business Builder grant programs that will award a total of $500,000 through July 2027.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Only last year did the food system become a major topic of international debate , during the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. And lawmakers and the U.S.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. human rights conference on food justice in Doha, Qatar.

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Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selected from nominations from all over the state, these inspirational change-makers are blazing trails for regenerative agriculture, strengthening our local food systems, and working tirelessly to grow a healthier and more just future for us all.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 29, 2023

On today’s show, hear from: Mike Cowbrough with Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, on Palmer amaranth confirmed; Mark Versluys, Corteva Agriscience on herbicide options for thistles; Tara Mulhern Davidson with Lonesome Dove Ranch on business risk programs and managing drought; and, Read More

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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. There’s a lot [of greenwashing] in food and beef, especially.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Texas A&M AgriLife experts celebrate water conservation, safety and efficiency practices that ensure food security There is no mistaking the critical role water plays throughout the world — it is essential to life on Earth. The post Today’s water research bolsters tomorrow’s food availability appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Partners in the Northeast USDA Regional Food Business Center led the center’s first face-to-face summit and participated in a Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit panel discussion this week in Binghamton, New York. 15, the Grow-NY Food and Ag Summit hosted panelists New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

From a food safety standpoint, they were still able to keep all crops refrigerated, washed, and handled according to their high standards. The farmers and firefighters worked tirelessly for those weeks and in the end Brisa Ranch was able to save most of their main building infrastructure, tools, and crops.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center is offering Diverse Markets Business Builder grants between $3,000 and $50,000 that are designed to build and expand local and regional non-commodity markets for climate resilient grains, pulses, and pseudocereals.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 11, 2024

My family has a cattle ranch, and I am sixth generation. Between three and four percent of new veterinary graduates pursue careers focusing on livestock or food systems. In 2022, more than 500 counties in the US were facing severe shortages of food animal veterinarians, some with no vet service at all.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, typically released weekly on Thursdays. The next few months have the potential to make a huge impact on global food systems. We need to keep repeating this: Food and agriculture systems have to be central to any meaningful discussions of solving the climate crisis.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 31, 2025

The consumption of this misinformation can do great harm to the publics understanding of the positive impact regenerative and adaptive grazing principles and practices have on improving ecosystem function and in providing healthy, nutrient-dense food to consumers. theoretical modelling versus field data, etc.)

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

full_link READ MORE Mending Hawaii’s food insecurity with breadfruit. They spend each day at a different farm, ranch, or cultural learning program area throughout rural Kohala with various organizations. Food served on boards from a harvested kiawe tree. At each location, they have plots with different varieties of kalo.

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Caff

JULY 25, 2022

Summer is at its peak and all the farmers are working hard to harvest all the delicious veggies from their fields, like the three amazing farmers at Brisa Ranch. Meet the farmers *Bios provided by Brisa ranch* Cristóbal Cruz Hernández has been farming in the Pescadero area for thirty years since immigrating here from Oaxaca.

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Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

She since partnered with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S. Niman Ranch provides the participants with a guaranteed market for their hogs in exchange for upholding high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In farming, youve got to pour yourself into it and it becomes your life, says Jake Beeler, a third-generation farmer in Wisconsin who partners with specialty meat company Niman Ranch to market his cattle. Beeler and his family mitigate financial stress by working with Niman Ranch, a network of more than 600 small, independent U.S.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For this month we’re highlighting a farm that provides their community with a wide range of delicious food, Red Gate Ranch. Q&A Why did you start to ranch/grow food? “After watching Food, Inc., ” What is one thing you wished you knew before you started ranching/ growing food?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch. But it’s not quite that simple.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. We’re reaching out to keep you in the loop on the amazing All Things Food Summit next week in Austin, Texas, as part of the SXSW festival.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

His is the last ranch before the Bear River—the longest river in North America that does not empty into an ocean—flows into the Great Salt Lake. Ferry must now not only think of his ranch, but his neighbors, and their neighbors, and everyone else in the state, not to mention fish and wildlife that rely on rivers, lakes, and streams.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Or being able to go visit family or be there for every basketball game or holiday or wedding…there are a lot of sacrifices that must be taken to get food on everybody’s plate.” In 2016, they began working with Niman Ranch, a network of over 600 small to mid-sized, independent U.S. Today, the majority (75 percent) of U.S.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

Roberts’ family was “looking for a way out of the rat race of commodity farming” around the turn of the century, and his father learned about an alternative market for their hogs: Niman Ranch. Roberts says that joining Niman Ranch allowed the family to continue farming. I grew up eating Niman Ranch pork every day for lunch and dinner.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

At Eagle Rock Ranch in Jefferson, Colorado, the elk start to gather at dusk. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Every winter herds of elk come through Eagle Rock Ranch in search of food.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up. She witnessed how difficult it was for them to work the ranch alone. Carman uses the principles of regenerative soil management on the ranch.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 11, 2023

In this introductory webinar, NCAT and the Carbon Cycle Institute talk about what Carbon Farm and Ranch Planning is and what it looks like across the Texas landscape. This webinar was made possible by the Meadows Foundation and is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Bureau for Labor Statistics, the farming, fishing and ranching sector had the highest rate of injury and fatality in 2022 and ranks as one the most dangerous occupations. “We NASDA enhances American food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement. According to the U.S. territories.

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