Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. At Vital Mission Farm, Siewicki planted various fruit trees around the farm with space for livestock to graze on the grasses. His plan was to create a 25’ x 25’ garden for personal use near his home outside of Charleston, South Carolina. I was so excited.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This proposition runs counter to the overwhelming consensus in the scientific, research, policy, NGO, and medical establishment that livestock, in general, and ruminants, in particular, are part of the problem in terms of climate. However, before you dismiss me as a heretic, I’ll try and set out the arguments which justify this statement.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

There are benefits to doing so - grass-fed beef is leaner and healthier than conventional grain-fed beef, and consumers are increasingly aware of these benefits. But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Assess your livestock's grazing potential.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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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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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away. Avoid chemical fertilisers as plants and microbes build soils chemicals destroy soils over time.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It reduces the need to farm and slaughter livestock. Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? Why should that land not be in livestock production? If we are producing grass-fed beef, then we do not need grains or other feedstuffs?

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

They will devour hay and other grains left outside for domestic animals and livestock. While there isn’t a program set up yet to do the same in Colorado, the Gottenborgs are in talks with organizations that will pay for the elk to have forage access to their pastures in the winter.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Business Concept : Clearly state the type of crop or livestock you will raise. Product Range: Detail the specific products you will sell: cuts of meat, dairy products, eggs, honey, flowers, vegetables, or grains. Permits and Licenses: Obtain necessary permits to operate a livestock farm. Print them out or fill them out online!

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

An avid lover of grassland wild birds, over the years he has developed credible protocols for grazing, mowing hay, or clipping pastures in a way that preserves grassland birds. All grass farmers are mavericks because we go against the grain (pun intended) of orthodoxy, from lower chemical use to pastured livestock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The broad answer to this is yes – but it does require that we change how we eat, especially in relation to chicken and pork which would be reduced by around 75%, removing the vast amounts of imported grain that these animals are fed on. It’s a radical proposition that is climate-friendly and better in terms of animal welfare.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 23, 2021

The pasture compliance which large organic livestock producers circumvent openly and aggressively. Grain fraud. Most people don't realize that nearly 80 percent of all organic grains used in the U.S. ." - Forty Former members of the NOSB to Secretary Tom Vilsack.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I’ve converted cropland to grassland, transitioned to organic, planted more than 6,000 trees and shrubs as well as perennial grains like Kernza, started rotationally grazing livestock, and added fencing and waterlines—all while making a home for a diversity of wildlife.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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). I could eat significantly more grain-based foods.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Bla-Kar grows mainly soybeans and corn with some livestock integration and South Glanton is a mixed grain and cattle operation. Like all the regenerative agriculture producers I have met on this tour and in Alberta, Blake and Ryan are doing something that goes against the grain (no pun intended).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the release, the WFO claimed cultivated livestock products “are supported by marketing campaigns that enhance the myth of greater sustainability compared to agriculture” and asserted that “there is no reliable evidence to compare cell-based food to farmer-produced one.”

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, medium and short-grain rice will likely remain the same at $24.80 Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 18, 2024

For instance, a pasture pig farmer might decide a good diversification for their soil health and finances is adding turkeys. But, you can save money if you invest in your on-farm mill and buy whole grains from a local farmer. In addition, adding diversity into rotations can change your crops in ways you might not have anticipated.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf. A suspicion arises about exactly who’s pressing this anti-pastoralist narrative and why. 3] There’s a naïve irresponsibility here that’s hard to fathom.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

And most estimates have shown that land is a limiting factor if all animal-based protein were to be grazed responsibly on pasture, based on current dietary trends. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Controlled Environment Agriculture A CEA farm growing tomatoes.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Here, Bill tells us how their low-input approach is delivering positive outcomes for livestock and wildlife and why he considers this to be fundamental to a more sustainable food and farming system. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here, Marianne writes about the experience of a number of farmers in Germany, who discuss the most humane methods for handling and slaughter, on pasture and amongst the herd. He has a herd of about 60 beef cattle, most were born on one of his pastures. She farms 220 hectares, of which 100 hectares are permanent pastures.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

Most Americans can agree that we want to see family farms with pastured livestock and tidy croplands dotting the countryside. For example, the Grain Baron chapter is really about the Farm Bill. I used the story of the Grain Barons to tell the history of the Farm Bill and how it has corrupted the food system.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. reduce tillage), increase plant diversity, keep roots in the soil as long as possible, and integrate livestock. Southeastern Minnesota’s Olmsted County is a microcosm of agriculture’s dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They have made an enormous dent in the number of mosquitoes and biting flies that plague me and my livestock during the summer. 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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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But despite the often harsh conditions, agriculture is a key cog in the Australian export economy, with grazing livestock and cereal grain production being the two major pillars. This would not only slash methane emissions but also reduce the land use impact of livestock by eliminating the need for extra grain production as feed.

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