Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For example, research suggests that phosphorus has a stimulating effect on molybdenum uptake mechanisms within plant roots. This interference occurs due to various factors, including the chemical similarity between molybdenum and copper, which can lead to competitive inhibition for uptake mechanisms within the plant.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I deeply appreciate all the comments on my last post about factory farmed confinement dairy cows being fitted with VR goggles playing a loop of sunny green pastures to make them happy and therefore more productive. The biological time clock is not mechanical. You all may remember rBGH several years ago.

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West Texas Livestock

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Mesquite trees are the most popular “trash” tree out there. Mostly, that popularity is due to the excellent BBQ wood that it provides. Despite its ability to supply us with some superb firewood, it poses some problems for range managers. Now, do not get me completely wrong on this.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier. Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Rodents serve as mechanical and biological vectors for several diseases such as Cryptosporidium parvum , Salmonellosis , and Leptospirosis. (

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

It’s through this mechanism of co-selection—of being physically linked on the same pieces of genetic material,” Hansen said. Similarly, many independent farmers raising chickens on small farms choose standard breeds in pastured systems and say the chickens are healthy and active; it’s not a settled issue.)

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The farm is an organic fifth-generation beef and dairy farm in north Somerset, which is mainly made up of permanent pasture and hay meadows, both rich in native grasses, wildflowers and wildlife. Currently, this is not always understood or captured effectively by the market mechanisms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Advocates of agroecology, including farmers and growers that use organic, regenerative, biodynamic, nature-friendly and pasture-fed practices, argue that a more profound change is needed – that the status quo, with its entrenched interests and problematic power structures, cannot persist. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

However, if we over-manage a hedge or intervene by planting a single species or mechanically trimming the hedge too severely, too often or too early in the autumn, we risk suppressing its biodiversity potential. Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years.

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Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, the Sustainable Markets Initiative, convened by His Majesty King Charles, is bringing together food companies, farmers and financial actors to trial new financial mechanisms to support regenerative farming. Integrated public-private action could leverage and multiply any public investment in regenerative farming.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. In a nutshell, Borlaug’s Green Revolution was America’s investment in industrial models for food production after WW2: hybrid seeds, genetic modification, mono-culture, selective breeding, mechanization, and chemicals.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Throughout history, agriculture required a highly integrated approach because until cheap energy and mechanization, distribution was laborious.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Hes full of questions, full of curiosity and a lot of drive, Wagner says.

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Farming Farming Pasture Meadow 131

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

The pasture was divided with permanent division fences to create multiple paddocks, and across a broad valley on the far hillside, I noted that one of the small permanent paddocks really stood out across the green pasture. This is like adding 15-20% more pasture acreage without buying or renting additional pasture.

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Forage Pasture Acre Soil Compaction 64

The Lunatic Farmer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The electronic highway seems to be going at supersonic speed and I want to live out my days in a mechanical car, thank you very much. Hopefully my frustration with being increasingly anachronistic will be ameliorated by the days I get to enjoy the cows, pigs, chickens, trees, and pastures of a piece of land I've devoted my life to nurturing.

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Mechanics Technology Pasture 75

Food Tank

JANUARY 3, 2025

Gen Z-ers will buy pasture-raised eggsthat matters to them, if they can afford itand at the same time, theyll want freeze-dried Skittles just to check it out, because its fun. And Kim brought up an interesting point: If farmwork becomes more mechanized, the crops themselves will start to taste different, too.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. sits on a feed pail in the pasture of his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. Albert Johnson Sr.

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The Lunatic Farmer

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. The PCR test is a mechanism to genetically amplify material to find floating pieces or particles of something.

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Mechanics Pasture Poultry Family Farming 132