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.

Livestock 75

Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

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. I used to haul 80-100 loads of manure each year and now Im down to seven. They also wonder why Im not harvesting my sorghum or hay mixes. Its not just a job.

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Farming Farming Acre Cattle 87

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Better manure management is among the climate-smart practices the USDA is funding in the partnerships.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 90

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

If that same land was producing a harvest of potatoes, a typical crop for the area, farmers could expect, based on 2020 prices , to have received approximately $736.56 (CDN) per metric ton from their harvests. But when livestock graze on the same pasture repeatedly, plants don’t have the opportunity to recover and will die.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 96

ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop. Of course, additional nutrients must be added into the system to replace minerals lost through harvest/animal losses.

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Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

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. Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In order to stack practices and keep the cover crop under control, they attempted sheep grazing, but when it was unsuccessful due to lack of year-round pasture, they tried grazing with a more space-efficient flock of ducks instead. The key is to pick adaptable crops and varieties that can tolerate heat and require minimal water.

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Orchard Farming Farming Construction 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land. Here we are planting trees in our pastures, so that in 10 to twelve years we can have dappled shade.” Orefice said.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98