Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Plantation Pasture Ranching Acre 109

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Image courtesy of Country Natural Beef Can This Beef Cooperative Become ‘the West’s Largest Climate-Smart Ranching Program’? Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt? Here are some of our most important climate stories this year. farm landscape. Now it’s on the verge of scaling up. agriculture.

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Ranching Plantation Food Crop 113

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

We found that when these natural elements were included in croplands, and also for forest plantations, that species abundance and species richness can be similar. 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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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 141

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Alfaro suggests using the term “soil livestock,” which she recently heard and feels best encapsulates the true work of caring for the soil. Latrice Tatsey sifting soils from her sample collections from the Blackfeet Buffalo Ranch, with her daughter Baeley and her son Terrance. It’s another part of farming, right?” Alfaro explains.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Industrial Agriculture 112

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 144

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 120