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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers. This seems simplistic, but a well-structured soil supports livestock, infiltrates water and grows outstanding pasture.

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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. What class of livestock are they? Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Tech innovators lend creativity to small farms

Caff

While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers. Submitted by Shepherdess Land and Livestock Co. of Ojai, CA.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent. In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field.

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Making Farm Ownership (Or Rental) Possible For Young Farmers

Farmbrite

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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Uninsured Country: Affordable Health Care Eludes Many Family Farmers and Ranchers

Daily Yonder

Instead, they use antibiotics made for livestock they buy from a veterinarian or feed store. Since I was a kid, my mom has told me stories about family friends who were injured or killed when their tractors overturned — a leading cause of injury or death for farmers. Family members share that risk. farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland. Some of the challenges can be impossible to plan for.

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