Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Dee River Ranchs investment in grain storage, soil health prompts a shift from pasture to cropland.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Mike Morris, NCAT Agriculture Specialist “When I was in college, I was taught that you fed hay and grain, and the pasture was just something you put the animals out on to look pretty, or just to get a little bit of supplement. I had to really change the way that I think to make that switch.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 143

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax. For the Berglers, farming has become a family affair with daughters Willa, Malia and Emery assisting with the overall farming operation and their own pasture-raised enterprises.

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DTN

AUGUST 1, 2023

Agribusinesses and grain traders can tap into EcoField data to help support and expand sustainable farming practices and support ESG-forward production initiatives. states for 19 grain and pasture types. The initial data set offers an instant view into field-level sustainable agriculture practices and inputs across 35 U.S.

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Supply Chain Farming Farming Grain 98

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. We do not yet have a no-till drill, so we use a conventional drill for overseeding pastures or seeding annual cover crops. This seems simplistic, but a well-structured soil supports livestock, infiltrates water and grows outstanding pasture.

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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 95

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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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 111

Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Consider various factors such as the size of your land, the type of livestock you have, the quality of pasture, the seasonality, and your goals for land management. Determine the carrying capacity of your pastures, which is the maximum stocking rate your land can support without causing degradation. And adapt as needed.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 125

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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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

This is correct, but what they don’t factor in is the inter-relationship between the emissions from those same grazing animals and the pastures they eat, which, if correctly managed, can be a major source of carbon sequestration.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 111

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. Here are a few tips that will help make the transition easier: 1.

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Pasture Farming Farming Forage 52

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. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 96

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It made me feel so good that someone believed in me and what I was doing on my farm.” (Photos courtesy of Jeff Siewicki) He positioned himself as a pasture poultry farmer to set himself apart from industrial poultry farmers and pivoted to selling to restaurants and wholesale. “I couldn’t believe it when he bought some birds.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. It displays the SweetRoot Farm logo—a beet sticking out of a row of dirt—and the text “Pastured eggs. Organic, GMO-free feed and whole grains, moved to fresh pasture regularly.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides. Photo submitted.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Single axle grain carts and large combines are the worst offenders, but manure tankers and larger tractors also easily exceed 10 tons/axle. Grain carts run in the previous track made by the combine. There is only enough corn in the grain cart to pay the driver’s salary for two months, but the compaction will last a lifetime.

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Grain Yield Manure Pasture 95

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Payments 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 risks (..)

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Crop Rotation Forage Pasture Crop 102

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the sheep go to pasture, someone is with them at all times—armed. As soon as the lambs can quit drinking milk replacer, they go on grain to grow as fast as possible. The ewes get hay and grain too to keep their body condition up and make them cycle fast for rebreeding. As a result, all farms have 24 hour security.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Vegetables, some pasture plants, and wine grapes had particularly low flammability, while cereal grains, fruit trees, and raspberries were highly flammable. Their findings suggest that crops with low flammability could be strategically planted to reduce wildfire risk in agricultural landscapes.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Grain 40

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. Farmers can also receive payments for growing so-called “alternative” crops such as oats and other small grains, and for converting crop acres to deep-rooted perennial systems like hay and pasture.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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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Food Farming Farming Compost 109

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? If we are producing grass-fed beef, then we do not need grains or other feedstuffs? Pasture and range conditions are significantly better. Are they using commodity beef nutritional data to make their decisions?

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This results in significantly higher antioxidants in grass-fed meats compared to grain-fed meats. Soils in diverse pastures had significantly higher soil organic matter, total exchange capacity, zinc, iron, phosphorus and potassium when compared to soils in conventional corn fields.

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Forage Pasture Cattle Grain 52

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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Crop Rotation Pasture Forestry Forage 59

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. The letter cites several areas of rampant disdain by USDA's organic standards enforcement division: 1.

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Poultry Grain Pasture Production 52

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pasture Prices Pasture and ranch land values increased $110 per acre to an average of $1,760. Highly productive soil, nearby grain highways, or contiguous land are all factors that may push farmland prices up. Cropland Prices Cropland values increased $410 per acre to an average of $5,460. That is an 8.1 That is a 6.7

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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

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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Pasture Ranching Cattle Food 64

Civil Eats

MAY 7, 2024

Keep in mind that although some stores are full of highly processed junk foods, pretty much all of them tend to have those staple whole grains, legumes, frozen vegetables, and fruits. A tub of plain oats from anywhere is a phenomenally healthy food. Same for a bag or can of beans. Look for trusted third-party certifications.

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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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Farming Farming Family Farming Cattle 145

Agribusiness Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Our home is at about 2,000 feet of elevation and we have about 40 acres of pasture, etc. We met up with the Quad Trak that was pulling the 925 bushel grain cart and that driver went to get another truck (the two drivers were their son and son-in-law) and she hopped in the Quad Trak to drive it for the remaining time to harvest that field.

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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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Food Free Range Grain Processing 98

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create. The diagram shows that this is true.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Product Range: Detail the specific products you will sell: cuts of meat, dairy products, eggs, honey, flowers, vegetables, or grains. Breeds: Specify the breeds of animals/crops you will raise and why you chose them (e.g., high-quality meat, milk production, adaptability to climate, rare breed seeds, etc.)

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Farming Farming Marketing Seeding 66

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

We can start by doing the same things we do in a row-crop or small-grain field. Just as we do by cover cropping with annuals in advance of row cropping, or even in advance of perennial pasture establishment, we can use cocktail mixes of warm-season annuals and cool-season annuals in advance of creating ornamental planting beds.

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