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Food as Filler OR Food as Medicine?

UnderstandingAg

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), A typical ranch only produces cattle and the calves are usually weaned and sold.

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BIOS Field Day at Locke Ranch

Caff

Chris and Christy Locke share the history of Locke Ranch and their participation in the original BIOS project. Photo by Nolan Kirby) The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) held a Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day at Locke Ranch on May 23rd. Previous slide Next slide Photos by Nolan Kirby.

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Meet the Participants Selected for the 2025 Grow Your Future Forum

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

He oversees cattle care, mechanical work on equipment, and plays a key role in planting, harvesting, and managing seasonal help. Carly, pursuing her veterinary technician license, manages the cattle books, helps with feeding and doctoring, and plays an integral role on the ranch.

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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. In this case, tillage is less of the disturbance in question, although some pastureland is regularly disturbed mechanically.

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Determining how male behaviors, environment affect offspring in livestock

AgriLife Today

spent the first 10 years of her career using live animal models to understand the mechanisms of the sperm epigenome and its role in human disease and development. Luense translates human disease and epigenetics expertise to livestock fertility Lacey Luense, Ph.D., But now, she is taking her epigenetics research program in a new direction.

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Western Rice Belt Production Conference set Jan. 17 in El Campo

AgriLife Today

Mechanic St. Conference features latest updates on rice research The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the annual Western Rice Belt Production Conference on Jan. 17 in El Campo. The free event will be held from 8 a.m.-3 at the El Campo Civic Center, 2350 N. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m.

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Part 1 Erosion: How Much is it Costing US?

UnderstandingAg

Poor grazing practices and tillage were the main causes of land degradation historically and mechanized agriculture has greatly increased the rate of erosion from cropland over the past century. How we manage our farms and ranches is a choice. It is estimated that the current global erosion rate is around 75 billion tons/year.