Agwired

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s leading virtual fence company has brought its technology to U.S. Founded in New Zealand, Halter has become the world’s leading virtual fence company in revenue and volume of collars sold and is positioned to deliver its technology to the U.S. ranchers and dairy farmers. cattle ranchers.”

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. An automatic irrigation system follows their path. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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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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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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? Pasture and range conditions are significantly better. It uses less land, feed, water, and antibiotics.

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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.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Planting, harvesting, breeding, raising livestock all require a period of waiting, but there are forms of waiting that can be minimized in farming operations, such as equipment repair, delayed harvest times due to unavailable labor, and delays of shipments of agricultural inputs. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 6, 2023

It can help you keep track of your crops and livestock, creating reports and alerts that tell you when to harvest or move animals to different pastures. You can also use an FMS tool to create a mobile app or website for your farm with HTML5 technologies. How does Farm Management Software help farmers?

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pasture fertility, healthy livestock, reduced nutrient runoff, all thanks to dung beetles. Even if you’re not a romantic, there are still plenty of other reasons to love dung beetles: it’s estimated that they provide millions of dollars’ worth of nutrient retention and pest fly reduction per year.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2024

However, managed pastures with legumes, high-quality hay, and minerals can help keep goats healthy. Related ATTRA Resources: Sheep and Goats: Frequently Asked Questions Getting Started with Livestock Dairy Goats for the Farm An Illustrated Guide to Sheep and Goat Production Small-Scale Livestock Production Episode 179.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 17, 2023

Is it land, livestock, machinery, our skill set? Do we have a good reason for what we grow or raise, or are we following the convention of our upbringing or our region? Example 2 A rancher opens all the gates to all pastures to feed livestock during a drought. What makes us what we are? All of these are part of agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Just as a farmer might grow alfalfa as a cover crop on a fallow field, communities can install solar on a school’s rooftop, a parking lot, a brownfield site too expensive to remediate or on agrivoltaic -compatible land such as cranberry bogs or sheep pastures.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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Caff

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

CLIMATE SMART FARM OF THE YEAR: Sarah Silva, Green Star Farm This women-led 85-acre pasture-based farm in Sonoma County, CA is proof that, when tended thoughtfully, livestock can coexist with a biologically-rich ecosystem. We look forward to watching that farm and his impact grow! All while producing top-notch eggs, chicken and pork!

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ATTRA

MAY 14, 2024

By Linda Coffey, NCAT Livestock Specialist Here in Arkansas, the grass is growing, hens are at full lay, baby lambs are everywhere, and calves are arriving. But in my day job as an NCAT livestock specialist, I’ve been working on improving the curriculum for our Women, Livestock, and the Land course.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Retargeting two-thirds of the 50 percent EQIP set-aside for livestock practices towards advanced grazing management.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dr. Lemus has been crucial in assisting the livestock producers across Mississippi understand the needs of each individual pasture toward better soil health. Leyla Rios, both of MSU Extension, strives to better understand forage present and soil health results from the implementation of conservation practices through an HMI framework.

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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.”

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honorable Mention for the “Most Economically Beneficial Innovation” went to the Livestock Yield, Pricing & Margin Tool, created by Olivia Tincani & Co., a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

The COWS Act would establish a new federal program aiming to improve economic viability and sustainability for the dairy and livestock industry. “Getting the AMMP award sped up our plans to modernize our manure management system by about 10 years. For more information: Summary of the COWS Act H.R.

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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 addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

And most estimates have shown that land is a limiting factor if all animal-based protein were to be grazed responsibly on pasture, based on current dietary trends. The combined use of solar photovoltaic technology and agriculture allow farmers and energy developers to share the same land.

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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. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Once these fence posts are hammered into the ground, ranchers battle trees, wind and damage from livestock knocking them over. Now ranchers around the country are trialing a new technology, virtual fencing, to manage animals and their land. The livestock impact is what most fields have been lacking for the last 75 years.”

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

All this used to be pasture,” said Petronila Gutiérrez, who, together with her husband and children, runs the La Miranda farm, a 79-hectare (195-acre) property they have reforested and worked with sustainable agriculture and cattle-raising techniques. “It

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

Or specialty products, such as organic, pasture raised or omega-3 eggs. Whether you offer your customers “nostalgia for an old-timey small farm past”, “biodiversity and heritage breed preservation” or “cutting-edge green technology” and “urban production”, you will need to communicate that to your customers in the image you portray.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Here, Bill tells us how their low-input approach is delivering positive outcomes for livestock and wildlife and why he considers this to be fundamental to a more sustainable food and farming system. We have also found that cattle are ideal for grazing our wood pasture sites.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. Other systems , including eShepherd and Corral Technologies, are also in development. At Georges Mill Farm in northern Virginia, Molly and Sam Kroiz’s goats are on the move.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The operation benefits everyone involved: Sheep farmer Frankie Iturriria gets paid for his time, the collaborating rangeland researchers are breaking ground , and the landowner BHE Renewables can maintain the property with sheep, which have less impact and are more cost-effective than mowers or other livestock. In November, U.C.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

These researchers, communities and advocates are working hard to resist the greenwashing of this technology—and sometimes they succeed. The report Anaerobic digesters are not typically things that you would ever see on a small, pasture-based dairy or farm.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Rooted in preindustrial farming, the method involves intentionally incorporating trees on the same land used by grazing livestock, in a way that benefits both. It also provides much-needed natural shade for livestock. Research shows that as the planet warms, livestock deaths will increase.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

From grazing livestock to local abattoirs, our sessions at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference were a chance to share some of our latest work and to connect with others who are pushing for positive change. In this article, our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Megan Perry, reports back from the discussion on the future of local abattoirs.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mann calls them “wizards”–telling us that technology will come to our rescue. 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. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 5, 2024

During the first six decades of my life, I have flip flopped on my thoughts regarding genetic selection for successful livestock operations. I spent the next 15 years of my life immersed in the development and use of genetic selection tools such as EPD’s and DNA Marker technology. They were to be docile and maternal.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly. Winter is underway, and people, land, and livestock are still struggling to recover, but I am impressed with the outpouring of assistance and volunteers who are still trying to get lives back to normal.

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