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Burnbrae Farms launches free-range, solar-produced eggs

Real Agriculture

The products, Naturegg Solar Free Range and Nature Omega Plus Solar Free. Burnbrae Farms, a Canadian family-owned and operated egg company, is launching two new specialty offerings that showcase eggs that come from the company’s Woodstock, Ont., solar-powered farm. Read More

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Livestock Management Systems

Agric4profits

Traditional farmers generally manage animals on a free-range basis, which is inexpensive and requires minimal care, allowing more time to focus on crop production. However, advanced… Read More » Livestock Management Systems

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How to make your own Livestock or Animal Feeds

Farmbrite

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. In this post, we've created some recipes or a cookbook and a step-by-step guide to making livestock feed for your herd.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Since 2018, they have been producing and selling free-range chicken eggs and meat on the farm’s idyllic 40 acres. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. Without agriculture, jobs are lost; 22.1 percent of the total US employment.

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Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?  

Sustainable Food Trust

The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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Holsinger Homeplace Farms: A Soil for Water Case Study

ATTRA

Holsinger Homeplace Farms now provides other families excellent grassfed beef and eggs from free-range laying hens. Buck and AJ share their motivations and how they have a generational perspective.

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Top 10 Chicken Breeds for Colorful Egg Production

Farmbrite

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. This means they excel as free range chickens. They do best as a free range bird, and thrive in both hot and cold climates.