Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

While this was common practice in the 1970s and 80s, the hog market consolidation and high land prices mean it’s no longer financially feasible for independent farmers to raise hogs and sell on the open market, and it’s extremely rare to see hogs outside of a confinement environment, the Boors say.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For this month we’re highlighting a farm that provides their community with a wide range of delicious food, Red Gate Ranch. Q&A Why did you start to ranch/grow food? ” What is one thing you wished you knew before you started ranching/ growing food? ” Where do you see your ranch in 5 years?

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Skoglund harvested nearly a bison a week out in his pastures last year to meet consumer demand. Operating within an increasingly consolidated and globalized market, most of Montana’s commodity crops—beef, wheat, barley, safflower, lentils, and chickpeas—get exported out of state. cents, according to federal data.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. On family ranches, taking care of the soil is crucial for producing high-quality wool. These ranches not only produce great wool but also create jobs and support local businesses. This is where the story of wool begins.

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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. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades. confirmed that it is currently ranching on about 365,000 acres in the Sandhills. The sign at the entrance to Rex Ranch.

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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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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether you're a seasoned farmer or rancher , an aspiring farmer looking to venture intofarming or ranching, or a farm business owner who wants to have a strong plan as they transition into another farm business, its helpful to know how to write and use a business plan. Your Business Plan Can Change The market might change around you.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

At the end of the year, you would have a marketable calf and a cow that was able to re-breed without having to invest in additional inputs such as supplements or hay. This is exactly how I was forced to adopt adaptive stewardship during a multiyear drought on my own ranch in Chihuahua.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. Not knowing what else to do in 2015, we harvested our home farm as dry hay to market as big square bales of horse hay. Context is also a way of explaining future goals. The average precipitation is 33 inches per year and the average growing season is 120 days.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. He’s hopeful that their lessons learned will help to shape how they ranch over the next five years. We hadn’t had a significant rain event since July of 2020,” says Tim. ‘A

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Market Trends : Analyzing general market data helps farmers select crops that will yield the best pricing, making their planting more strategic and profitable. Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. Then I direct-market and sell the meat.”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. Customers who buy their eggs at the farmer’s market in downtown Hamilton or who swing through their farm store can pick up a carton with a very simple design. Noah & Mary.”

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Agwired

AUGUST 22, 2024

Halter technology is a powerful system that helps users precisely manage pasture to lift the performance of the animals grazing it,” says Craig Piggott, Halter Founder and CEO. Halter collars are lightweight and powered by two small solar cells at the top of the collar which are connected via solar-powered towers on the ranch.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

On June 1, CK6 Consulting and Texas Beefhouse launched Bid on Beef , the vision of Chris Earl, owner of Reverse Rocking R Ranch and CK6 Consulting in New Mexico. L-R: Wes Tiemann, Amanda Radke, Chris Earl, and Kody Fleeman, A new kind of auction platform for beef sales was launched this month.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

His 10 Layers of Permanence build on the work of Yeomans; you will never see your farm, ranch, or homestead the same way once you’ve encountered his thinking. Perhaps no one in America has a better handle on genetics and low-input ranching and farming than this experienced producer. He’s a great marketer, too.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. As she has allowed pastures to rest, she has seen the return of species diversity and a rise in perennial grasses.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

trillion market in 2023, representing 83.6 As the market grows and values rise, it’s important for landowners to understand the power in their equity and how to effectively mitigate risk while seizing opportunity. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. percent of total farm sector assets.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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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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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. I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. I have never seen so much damage.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Similarly, while today’s food industry is dangerously monopolistic–the meat industry above all–HarvestPath was designed to give ranchers more control of their business while marketing directly to consumers. Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.

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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.

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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.” She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon.

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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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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction to Key Metrics When you’re managing a ranch, it's important to track key metrics that tell the story of your herd. The calculation can be done two ways: Using an average of every animal on your ranch, or Using an average of all animals that were born within a certain year (this will only include cows that have calved once).

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. This wasn’t about ranching, this was about everything. Salatin was a real farmer.

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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. Well-cared-for animals tend to exhibit better behavior, leading to easier handling and lower stress levels during routine tasks.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. My idea of a successful rancher was that of traditional ranching — whoever had the most land. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region. About 18 of our families always show up.

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