UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Over-winter feed costs are often the largest expense for livestock owners, and in many parts of the country where hay is more expensive, it can rob the profit out of cow/calf pair production. What class of livestock are they? Is there enough nutrition in the grass to support the livestock or does it need to be supplemented?

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” She and her husband started ranching in their late 20s, and they’ve been at it for more than 40 years now. “We But then, she’s had to.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 90

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. But in 1981, a northern Wyoming ranch dog proudly presented his owners with his most recent treasure: a dead ferret. Researchers, however, say the effects of prairie dogs on livestock forage are mixed.

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Ranching Cattle Forage Pruning 92

Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Texas leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, with 248,416 , and has the highest rate of uninsured residents, at about 18%.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs. For example, some farms might be located in urban areas or industrial parks where you would not be able to grow crops or raise livestock. What type of soil does this land have?"

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

For all of industrial farming’s success at feeding people and livestock and producing biofuel, the sector is also a major polluter, accounting for roughly 10 percent of U.S. If Tyson comes in and says farms and ranches who we’re buying cows from have implemented X amount of cover cropping, does that make their beef climate smart?”

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97