Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. Overall the ethanol market has had an effect on the price of corn as well as on other crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. Tetrick says his company has no interest in squeezing out small-scale poultry farming operations that favor sustainable and humane methods. The lab at Good Meat.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

You have a few choices when it comes to getting your eggs to market. Farmer stands are typically found in places like farmers markets or on the road-side. Some Tips for Effective Farmer Stands: Farm Stand Location: Choose a location that is not only high traffic, but also heavily populated by your target market (i.e.

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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. Most of their beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are marketed directly to consumers and local restaurants. He continues to learn and study through reading and visiting with other farmers.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

In chicken, the four biggest companies —Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride (owned by JBS), Wayne-Sanderson Farms, and Mountaire—control more than half of the market. At the heart of the issue throughout the industry is an overwhelmingly common poultry disease called coccidiosis, caused by a parasite that is almost universally present in chicken waste.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 And that’s by design. Paul region.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

After living through a pandemic and struggling with ongoing high grocery prices (particularly rising costs for poultry and eggs), many people are ready to make a change for themselves. Despite the ongoing threat of bird flu , many homesteaders consider poultry a great place to start when raising your own livestock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Every species is different, and he’ll address cattle, hogs, and poultry transport and movement. Three of our urban patrons will talk about why they buy pastured meat and poultry. This session will drill down on messaging for the urban market. I’ll do a presentation on landscape design. I’ll answer that.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

That year he hosted his first national conference and asked me to do a speech about pastured poultry. Suddenly we were getting calls from around the country: “How do you do this pastured poultry thing?” In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15. It brought the house down.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Foreign markets are increasingly important to the U.S. The Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) will invest approximately $38 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing, and producer communications during fiscal 2024, subject to USDA approval. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When Peter Platt was in Newport, Oregon in 2018, visiting Local Ocean Seafoods to bring them on as a supplier, he spoke with some of the fishermen docked outside the waterfront fish market and restaurant. All the salmon fishermen were like, ‘We don’t even bother to fish off the coast here anymore. We’ll have no choice,” she says.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This not only improves the working environment for farm staff but also enhances animal quality of life and product, positively impacting consumer perception and marketability of your products. Avoid the use of manure (products) and waste from off-premise (poultry, cattle, or other livestock) unless products are certified pathogen-free.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Today, following many years in both the landscape design/build business, while also raising and marketing 100% grass-fed beef and registered Angus breeding stock, I’ve learned some more about soil science. That knowledge didn’t come from the plant science and landscape design course of study I continued in at Cornell University, though.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

From producing their own compost to managing a CSA to selling direct at farmers markets all over Southern California, J.R. He also oversaw COVID-era response with subsidized produce boxes, opening up new direct markets for growers while feeding those hit hardest by the pandemic.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The marketing of nuts did not do as well as in other years. Lack of competitive pricing in global markets is keeping the U.S. California Proposition 12 has created significant challenges and market uncertainty for pig farmers across the country. Fruits and Nuts In times of inflation, people tend to switch to lower-priced goods.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

2] Rangeland ruminants cycle otherwise inaccessible nutrition into the human food web and, worldwide, many are in the hands of third-agriculture local agrarians operating outside commodified market routes. Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] over that period).[2]

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Sally and JP and their growing full-time and part-time staff raise certified naturally grown produce and pasture-raised, organic-fed pork, poultry, and eggs.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“It’s rare to see [regionally sourced meats] on shelves at large chains, even at the local level,” says Rebecca Thistlethwaite, director of the Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network (NMPAN), a nonprofit that helps support small processors with marketing, applying for state and federal grants and more. This is a niche market,” says Bartlett.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against. Could the farm bill address this problem?

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These plants comprised one of my most lucrative farm crops, and I was excited to bring fresh peppers to the market later that season. Here, Harris recommends a good nighttime shelter to keep poultry and small livestock, such as sheep and goats, safe from predators. This morning, however, there was a very obvious gap in the row.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

Cairnspring Mills, an organization supported by Terra Regenerative Capital in Washingtons Skagit Valley, aids this transition by offering farmers rates above market value if they commit to implementing sustainable practices. As long as we can prove that were improving that carbon sequestration, then this makes sense.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association just released a 4-day synopsis of exterminated chickens and it's unnerving. Weekly Disease Update 2/4-2/10 POULTRY CASES 2/4/25: Dauphin Co., PA, WOAH Non-Poultry, 30 Mercer Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 1,100 Bronx Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 100 Newton Co.,

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