Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Limestone and Dicalcium Phosphate 1% For calcium Finisher Feed (6 Weeks to Market Weight) Corn 65% Energy source for rapid growth. A typical TMR might include: Forages (Alfalfa silage, hay) 50-70% This provides fiber and moisture, aiding digestion. For weaned calves (400700 lbs): Forage 60-70% (grass hay or silage).

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Carbohydrates and Energy, and Fiber The amount of energy contained in hay or forage is contained in carbohydrates. The amount of water needed varies by species, animal age, stage of life, available live forage, and environmental temperatures. Market Demand : You might also choose to sell your surplus hay.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

Determining which cuts of meat you want to produce can be a difficult task, as it requires an understanding of your farm's infrastructure and resources as well as the market demand for each type of animal. Get in touch with a farmer or farmer's market that will buy your product. Determine which cuts of meat you want to produce.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Tessema is currently investigating the potential of carbon markets in Africa and sees the assessment as a “timely resource” for furthering investment in the sector and the region. “Having this information from the FAO, especially on the negative carbon balance, is really a huge opportunity,” she tells Food Tank.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Consistently achieving 93% weaning rates with low-quality forages averaging 3% brix is no easy task. At the end of the year, you would have a marketable calf and a cow that was able to re-breed without having to invest in additional inputs such as supplements or hay.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Work is underway now to develop acceptable lab grown meats for the consumer market. Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? The standing forage biomass is often 300%+ higher. Pasture and range conditions are significantly better.

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. Despite experiencing a spring with no rain, he has persisted and is increasingly finding markets for his nuts.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 100

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But most wheat is processed on roller mills that remove the bran and germ to produce a fine white flour, while much of the product marketed as “whole wheat” is actually refined white flour with larger particles mixed back in. The state also lacks infrastructure to market heirloom wheat to buyers and specialty millers. in March 2022.

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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. They’ve adapted an integrated approach to land management, practicing rotational grazing to improve the quality and biodiversity of the soil, which in turn has provided fertilized soils for growing grain and forage crops.

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Ranching Cattle Pasture Family Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Prescribed grazing, for example, including forms such as management intensive rotational grazing that allow for short-duration presence of livestock on a given part of the landscape, can improve the quality of forage and increase the presence of native perennial plants.

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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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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What you put into your animals – from clean stalls, fresh grown pastures, to clean food and attention makes the flavor better, says Kate Osgood, who runs Birch Rise Farm , in New Hampshire, raising chickens and turkeys. These birds are also active foragers, and thrive with ample outdoor space to explore.

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Poultry Forage Production Farming 63

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. Then I direct-market and sell the meat.” He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch. His cow dogs, Huckle and Django, follow him everywhere. Every few years, he said, all 260 acres will be grazed. “I

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 114

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. How often have you heard that said?

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This not only improves the working environment for farm staff but also enhances animal quality of life and product, positively impacting consumer perception and marketability of your products. Well-cared-for animals tend to exhibit better behavior, leading to easier handling and lower stress levels during routine tasks.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

During the pilot, a six-week programme of farm-based activities was offered to participants, including spending time with farm animals, farm walks, foraging and harvesting, healthy cooking demonstrations, collecting honey and getting occupational experience. To learn more about Langford Farm, visit langfordfarmorganic.co.uk.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve figured out how many pounds each animal has gained or lost throughout its lifetime, multiply this number by its current market value to get its total value. This gives you an idea of whether selling your cow now would prove profitable for the ranch. The average conversion rate is between 1.25 pounds of gain per pound of feed.

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Cattle Ranching Acre Livestock 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds. California’s small, pasture-based, organic dairies—many of which are clustered on the state’s North Coast—have a lighter environmental footprint, and they contribute just a sliver of the industry’s overall methane emissions.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. Brett and Anna use multiple market channels, including farmers markets, on-farm sales, community supported agriculture (CSA) deliveries, participation in a food hub, and affiliation with the Edible Goose Creek farm alliance.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These plants comprised one of my most lucrative farm crops, and I was excited to bring fresh peppers to the market later that season. Hay (or grain) stubble provides excellent forage for wildlife, especially songbirds and gamebird populations, which, in turn, can help farmers by devouring insect pests that plague crops.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 139

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though they are not immune from the ravages of the virus, smaller-scale and pasture-raised poultry operations have, so far, shown themselves to be more resilient against the outbreak, some experts sayeven if thats only because their smaller size is a check against hundreds of thousands of birds dying all at once at a single location.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

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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Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 133

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

The pasture was divided with permanent division fences to create multiple paddocks, and across a broad valley on the far hillside, I noted that one of the small permanent paddocks really stood out across the green pasture. This is like adding 15-20% more pasture acreage without buying or renting additional pasture.

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Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 64

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

Cairnspring Mills, an organization supported by Terra Regenerative Capital in Washingtons Skagit Valley, aids this transition by offering farmers rates above market value if they commit to implementing sustainable practices. As long as we can prove that were improving that carbon sequestration, then this makes sense.

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