Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The farm is an organic fifth-generation beef and dairy farm in north Somerset, which is mainly made up of permanent pasture and hay meadows, both rich in native grasses, wildflowers and wildlife. As all life depends on soil health, we believe that farmers and livestock have an essential role to play.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Pasture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, the Sustainable Markets Initiative, convened by His Majesty King Charles, is bringing together food companies, farmers and financial actors to trial new financial mechanisms to support regenerative farming. xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming.

Food 64

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 64

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. Our Polyface eggs averaged 1,038.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Advocates of agroecology, including farmers and growers that use organic, regenerative, biodynamic, nature-friendly and pasture-fed practices, argue that a more profound change is needed – that the status quo, with its entrenched interests and problematic power structures, cannot persist. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

Agroecology 52

Agroecology Technology Farming Farming 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I stood a chance of losing my livestock,” Johnson wrote in a 1999 affidavit to receive part of a $2.3 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. billion federal settlement between Black farmers and the USDA.

Cattle 112

Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 112

The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. The PCR test is a mechanism to genetically amplify material to find floating pieces or particles of something.

Mechanics 136

Mechanics Pasture Poultry Family Farming 136

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

The pasture was divided with permanent division fences to create multiple paddocks, and across a broad valley on the far hillside, I noted that one of the small permanent paddocks really stood out across the green pasture. This is like adding 15-20% more pasture acreage without buying or renting additional pasture.

Forage 64

Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 64