Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Orchard grass hay is soft as well as palatable and good for animals with respiratory issues or animals that are picky or need variety in their meals. Orchard Grass Hay: A soft, palatable hay that's good for horses with respiratory issues. Orchard Grass Hay: Similar to Timothy, but softer and more palatable.

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Caff

JUNE 1, 2022

In this episode we visit Vitis and Ovis Farm, a multi-generational Swiss-American-Ethiopian family farm located in the Capay Valley and specializing in pastured duck eggs, fruit and medicinal herbs.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. Similarly, buying a no-till drill allowed Gonzales-Siemens to expand the use of cover crops in his orchards and further protect the soil. “[The

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Johnson added trees to grazing land to create silvopastures, enhanced existing windbreaks and planted a micro-orchard with fruit and nut trees. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. Her sheep are now grass-fed, healthier and need little medical intervention, she says.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 125

Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They’ve taken a somewhat experimental approach in the orchard to see what grows best, and found that jujubes, apricots, and pomegranates thrived while apples and chestnuts didn’t do well due to the heat of the region and plums were too susceptible to disease.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. It’s no idle threat. anywhere in the world.

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Poultry Livestock Ecology Pasture 64

The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 26, 2023

Farmers commonly use sprinkler irrigation for row crops, orchards, and pasture irrigation. High-pressure pumps propel water through a network of pipes and sprinkler heads. This system is versatile and can be adapted to various crop types and field conditions.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JUNE 2, 2023

In the ideal world, you’d line all your fence lines with orchard trees, but the best I’ve been able to do is bring on really useful regular trees. In our area, locust especially likes to grow in the high sunlight areas around pasture edges and on our farm we now have enough to supply all our posts and shed building poles for decades.

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Pruning Pasture Orchard Crop 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Its agrihood model uses tiny homes as the residences, with 11 families currently sharing the responsibilities of gardening and caring for the chickens, honey bees and orchards.

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Farmland Food Farming Farming 128

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Just as we do by cover cropping with annuals in advance of row cropping, or even in advance of perennial pasture establishment, we can use cocktail mixes of warm-season annuals and cool-season annuals in advance of creating ornamental planting beds.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Orchards, vines and other perennials cultivated as long-term investments have steadily replaced ephemeral crops such as tomatoes and cotton, which are far less costly to sacrifice or replace. Despite competing for land and water, the region’s orchards and milk farms have developed an unlikely partnership, says Sumner.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. One partner rejuvenated the old apple orchard, planted another 120 heritage-variety trees and started a cider business. “A He purchases weaned calves and finishes most of them on an 80-acre pasture on the ranch.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 110

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. the Osage Nation’s community orchard. Some solutions offered include grass banks for pasture areas experiencing drought as well as temporary leasing of water.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. But, it’s not always easy for growers to identify those species at risk on their properties.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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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. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. One villager, Awdah Hathaleen, said on social media , “The shepherds now have been completely cut off from their pastures and fields.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Yet intense competition for land in the state has widened the gap in farm ownership, she adds.

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