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.

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Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Joyce’s book, Remembering Peasants , sets out to document this fast-vanishing population, which has been devastated by social change, war and the relentless expansion of industrial agriculture. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows.”

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket. What does that mean for pasture-raised poultry, which spend most of their lives outdoors and therefore are at greater risk of contact with contagious wild birds? They are out on pasture, eating grass. There are, though, other ways of making an omelet.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142