Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Cage Free: This term refers to poultry that is allowed to roam indoors without cages and have access to food and water. The USDA does not allow hormones to be used for poultry or pork, so don’t associate this with a mark of quality on these items. This certification requires inspection to verify that standards are being met.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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. Despite the ongoing threat of bird flu , many homesteaders consider poultry a great place to start when raising your own livestock.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. Now, utilizing bale grazing, Conard explained how he and his wife opened access to seven new bales every 5 to 6 days once pastured forage was no longer available.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2023

Fact Sheet: Wildfire Ash: Impacts on Forage Crops Click for Livestock Drinking Water Quality Presentation. Fire Impacts to Eggs from Backyard Poultry – Maurice Ernest Pitesky- DVM, MPVM, Dipl ACVPM, Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Click for Presentation.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. I did have to put huge aviaries up to protect my poultry from coyotes and sometimes a persistent fox,” she wrote in an email to Civil Eats. Runoff from U.S.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 8, 2024

NEXT ENHANCE CGO Feed Solution is scientifically shown to help dairy farmers get more out of forage by optimizing dry matter intake per kilogram/pound of milk produced while maintaining milk production and body weight/condition. It is currently underway in three states: Oklahoma, Kansas, and Indiana. 10, 2025.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. The Soil Association’s report, Peak Poultry , details that roughly three million tonnes of soya are imported into the UK each year, and most of it is bought by chicken producers to fatten chickens.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 27, 2023

This breed is very popular among backyard poultry enthusiasts and breeders. The Easter Egger also makes an excellent forager, so if you want to let your flock free range and scratch around for their own food in the yard, this breed will likely do well at it. They are known to be predator-savvy and are excellent foragers.

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Production Free Range Forage Poultry 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

By “mimicking nature,” the grazing patterns of ruminants benefit from natural forage and room to roam, all the while “maximizing soil health and biodiversity” of plants, insects, and other animals. Preparing grass-fed beef for serving at the Meat Summit.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Avoid the use of manure (products) and waste from off-premise (poultry, cattle, or other livestock) unless products are certified pathogen-free.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land. The Raika state that camel foraging has a positive pruning effect on the acacias and other trees, inducing them to branch out stronger.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 6, 2023

ounces of water each day depending on if they are foraging or confined. Mortality rates for layers in a normal poultry farm can be in the 1-5% range. The Quality of your Water: Water is used in most processes in the body; keeping normal temperature, getting rid of waste, adding cushion to joints. So, keeping clean water is important.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 26, 2023

69th annual Beef Cattle Short Course set for Aug. 7-9 in Bryan-College Station Looking back at 40 years of advances in the beef industry and toward the next 40 years of opportunities and challenges will be the highlight of the general session during the 69th annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in Bryan-College Station set for.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

We experimented with a combination of ruminants and agroforestry, perennial crops and poultry, as well as some annual crops. At the time, it felt like we had unlimited options and that was overwhelming but – looking back – we really only had a few realistic options. We expected things to move much faster than they did.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Becky practices rotational grazing with a diverse forage base that includes native warm-season grasses, summer annuals, and cool-season perennials. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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. Here, Harris recommends a good nighttime shelter to keep poultry and small livestock, such as sheep and goats, safe from predators.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Thomas Livestock Co Inc Tillamook County Creamery Association TN Feed & Grain Association U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 7, 2025

It's why we feed non-GMO feedstocks and compost-fertilized forages. Here's my newest wish for policy: let the owners of the poultry determine their treatment. It's why we move animals to a fresh spot routinely and even daily. Killing survivors, which is the current USDA policy, is certifiably insane. We're back to mandated covid jabs.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

Tree Range Farms, another organization backed by Terra Regenerative Capital, focuses on creating more natural forested habitats for chickens on poultry farms. In forested pastures, chickens can freely forage on plants, sprouted grain, and bugs and dont rely on antibiotics, according to the organization.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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