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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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. Albert Johnson Sr.

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