UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. Corn and soybeans will grow here sporadically; however, wet falls or an early freeze usually prevent harvest. We do not yet have a no-till drill, so we use a conventional drill for overseeding pastures or seeding annual cover crops.

Plowing 95

Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 95

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.

Pasture 105

Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

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 Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.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.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. 28, 2019. “But

Agriculture 88

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 88

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

She has a trailer that can fit some of her animals and enough pasture that she’s hopeful she’ll be able to find space for her cows. million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. But the trauma of that fire stays with her, even now. “If

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Farming Farming Livestock Cattle 84