Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing. Four acres of flax at Pasture Song Farm. Photography via author.

Textiles 89

Textiles Seeding Processing Straw 89

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.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

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. Many report improvements on metrics like welfare-improving lighting and “enrichments,” a term for things like perches and straw bales added to barns that allow birds to express their natural behaviors.

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Production Poultry Food Farming 144