Modern Farmer

AUGUST 8, 2023

This has significantly lowered the water use of his Spring Creek Livestock and Feed , while boosting his bottom line. Subbing out a chunk of the meadow hay she feeds at $29 a bale has significantly decreased the costs to run her business. (Photo via FodderTech) Noorda still grows some alfalfa to supplement his feed.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

They avoid using pesticides and heavy equipment that could compact the soil, plant flowers in their gardens to attract beneficial insects, and maintain meadows with native plants. One of the main examples is the wolf population in the American West—and you have in Montana, Idaho, and California issues with predation of livestock by predators.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” Meadows for the term that residents of the region use to refer to the vast marshes that create a fluid transition between solid ground and the water of the Delaware Bay.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We had grand plans to install a curated pollinator garden in the front and a vegetable garden with a managed meadow in the back. Livestock, heavy machinery and hikers along mountain paths create compaction, not just lawns. A meadow of native plants can promote healthy soil and draw in pollinators.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Plants and panels can exist in "symbiosis" Agrivoltaic solar parks see photovoltaic (PV) panels spaced further apart to allow more sunlight to reach the ground, and raised higher in the air so that crops – or even small livestock such as lambs – can be reared underneath.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. A diversified farm that is growing vegetables and raising livestock, for example, might incorporate more perennial plants into their system to encourage carbon storage in deep roots. Long, diverse grasses blanket the ground around and between the vines.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 22, 2023

Subscribe to FERN’s Newsletter Name Email * CAPTCHA Δ Land loss impedes not just hunting and trapping but also raising livestock. A key culprit is the shift from traditional to Western diets, whether because of forced migration, environmental degradation, or government policies like the mandated thinning of livestock herds.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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