Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. At Vital Mission Farm, Siewicki planted various fruit trees around the farm with space for livestock to graze on the grasses.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Justin Morris In an earlier blog , we discussed what compaction is and how it negatively affects plants, soils, livestock, and even economics. Causes of Compaction There are generally two major causes of soil compaction on pastures: hoof impact and overgrazing. Roots are essential for healthy soil structure to be maintained.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. But it’s a process of trial and error.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 16, 2024

For the record, my initial thoughts about Covid in the spring of 2020, for which I was excoriated by friends in the organic/pastured livestock movement, have now been proven to be exactly correct. In addition to tracking movement, a slaughter house could be forced to not process animals without RFID tags. Go back and read ‘em.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By Hakeem Holmes, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Lean is a business process improvement concept that focuses on the elimination of non-value-added activities from processes, which are defined as waste. Producing more than is needed or producing faster than the next stage of value-added processing can lead to overproduction.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. He and his wife Nancy own a 150-acre grass-fed beef farm and use a rotational grazing method.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Livestock farmers who practice regenerative farming, improving soil and biodiversity with methods such as rotational grazing, strive to waste nothing and can still wind up with leftovers. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Assess your livestock's grazing potential. Before you can implement a grass-fed cattle program, you need to assess your livestock's grazing potentials. Here are a few tips that will help make the transition easier: 1.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The reasoning behind the cultivation of lab grown meat is comprised of several thought processes. It reduces the need to farm and slaughter livestock. Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? Why should that land not be in livestock production?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s also a difference between heavily processed meat products and unprocessed meat, both in their effects on the body and the climate. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems. But not everyone can do that. Questions such as who benefits?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. He admits that wolves will present challenges for livestock producers, but he added, “There may be some interesting new opportunities that come up for ranchers and for all of us here in western Colorado. It’s the key to human survival,” he said.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Knowing the weight and nutritional content of a hay bale not only helps to ensure that you have enough livestock fodder on hand for winter, it also helps to make sure that you provide ample nutrients and protein to your animals. Hay is also used when a pasture is too lush or nutrient-rich for the well-being of livestock.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. from NCA5 Higher temperatures can stress both crops and livestock. will leave the area increasingly vulnerable.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. Each farm can qualify for a maximum of around $15,000 in payments per year.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Phillips’ farm, nestled in the Ozarks in northwest Arkansas, raises livestock. They used EQIP to expand livestock watering and fencing infrastructure to enable rotational grazing. This means we move our sheep flock through a pasture one section at a time using mobile fencing,” Lindi Phillips explained.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness. If processing the information or making these changes is too big a hurdle for you it won't be useful.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts. Struggling and recovering pasture grasses under CSP management at Jones Corona Ranch (Photo Credit: Christy Everett) Other forms of perennials also provide both important resilience reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Grazing livestock are a key focus of the SFT’s work and the subject of our next report, due out later this year. Some milk is processed into various types of cheeses that are becoming popular with premium heritage hotels. Yet, many communities in the world’s drier regions depend upon a different animal: the camel.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. Robinson never shies away from recounting the sometimes gorier details of the process.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork. Jacob describes their thinking about these processes and their rotations. He continues to learn and study through reading and visiting with other farmers.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the release, the WFO claimed cultivated livestock products “are supported by marketing campaigns that enhance the myth of greater sustainability compared to agriculture” and asserted that “there is no reliable evidence to compare cell-based food to farmer-produced one.” Now, that’s a long journey to get there.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of the farmer) Earlier this year, a group of GOP Congressmembers began proposing that Congress use the farm bill reauthorization process as an opportunity to redirect these resources away from increasingly popular climate-focused conservation programs and instead add them to the general farm bill budget.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Several factors, including the difficulty of estimating the weight of ingredients, particularly if they’ve already been cooked or processed (e.g., Through my work, I am also in touch with several organic livestock farmers close to Bristol and try to buy my meat directly from them. Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is reflected in the increase of interest in meat with more ethical credentials, including pasture-fed, local and organic. The majority of livestock farmers care deeply about their animals and want them to have a good quality of life. Within the Global Farm Metric, livestock is included as one of the 12 categories.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

This included voicing support for pieces of legislation like the Agriculture Resilience Act, the Strengthening Local Processing Act, and the Local Farms and Food Act. Cody Hopkins of Grassroots Coop in Arkansas said, “The EQIP contract has been great for us, but we still need more expertise in silvopasture and livestock technical assistance.”

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. Reggie is immensely valuable in this process. Communities like to see that a (solar) development company cares about the land and the process of development.

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CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

Last Friday Governor Newsom’s office released the May Revise, a part of the annual state budget process which updates the governor’s economic and revenue outlook. With the state facing significant economic uncertainty and a worsening deficit now projected at $31.5

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In its focus on expanding local processing and markets, as well as more localized nutrient cycling, the bill aims to support programs that effectively bolster local food and farm systems.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Griebel and Dana started out in their first year, experimenting with 12 head of cattle, and nearly decade later, they’re raising 70 head and processing the meat right on the farm. Everything we’ve raised will also die and be processed on the farm.” Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 18, 2024

It can also mean processing your farmer crops into value-added products, like turning strawberries into jam sold through specialty grocery stores. For instance, a pasture pig farmer might decide a good diversification for their soil health and finances is adding turkeys. Only to discover that their pigs kill and eat their turkeys!

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. Most of it is done in the butchery, but the shop has a bakery and a large kitchen, one side caters for the restaurant, the other processing food for the shop. “In The floor space of the shop is now much larger. “We

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Business Concept : Clearly state the type of crop or livestock you will raise. Facilities: Detail the existing or planned farm infrastructure (barns, pastures, fencing, water systems, irrigation, processing facilities, equipment, what you will need on-farm and off-farm to produce your product, etc).

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