Kavya Organic Farm

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It can be difficult to determine precisely what you’re getting and which brands of Organic Egg are the best because of labels like “cage-free” (which has no meaning), “free-range,” “pasture-raised,” etc. They’ve previously written egg-buying guidelines. They like Happy Egg Co. Kadaknath Eggs 2.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Consider various factors such as the size of your land, the type of livestock you have, the quality of pasture, the seasonality, and your goals for land management. Determine the carrying capacity of your pastures, which is the maximum stocking rate your land can support without causing degradation. And adapt as needed.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

They were able to plan and schedule movements, increase grazing in different areas throughout their farm and between their pastures, track inventory, improve the health of the land, and increase yields as their livestock had fewer parasites. Since it was web-based they could track these movements from anywhere on their farm.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. And when nitrates are present, it’s inevitable that other contaminants, such as pesticides , are also polluting the water. Southeastern Minnesota’s Olmsted County is a microcosm of agriculture’s dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. It will take years for the pastures and perennial forages to recover, and that’s only if conditions improve.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g., Photo credit: Crop Trust.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We see that in the worsening of herbicide resistance in weeds and increased need for pesticides that never actually solve pest problems. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? Taking the next step Todays agricultural system is very efficient but very unstable.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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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. No soil amendments, no herbicides, no pesticides, no fungicides ever used.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Weve experienced nothing like this before, said New River Conservancy Executive Director Andrew Downs.This is due to fuel, pesticides, and sewage that has polluted the streams. Pasture fences have been destroyed or damaged by so many trees falling across them that repairs will be time-consuming and costly.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Chemical hazards may arise from exposure to pesticides, feed additives, or contaminants in water sources, making regular testing and proper handling essential. Chemical Hazards - Chemical hazards may arise from exposure to pesticides, feed additives, drug residues, herbicides, environmental toxins, or contaminants in water sources.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 17, 2023

Technically, this violates the regulations on spraying pesticides, but it happens every year in too many places. Example 2 A rancher opens all the gates to all pastures to feed livestock during a drought. Consider some real-life examples: Example 1 A farmer hires a local Co-op to apply insecticide to a soybean field to control aphids.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Rosmann’s 700-acre organic operation is an anomaly in the region.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION. The Princeton-based company EION uses olivine to lay down rock dust in the steamy fields of the Mississippi River Delta region.

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Fertilizer Acre Farming Farming 140

Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Avoid overgrazing your pasture lands. Grazing is an important part of pasture management , but you must be careful not to overgraze your land. Soil health is a holistic measure of soil function.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. How often have you heard that said?

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

That year he hosted his first national conference and asked me to do a speech about pastured poultry. Suddenly we were getting calls from around the country: “How do you do this pastured poultry thing?” In 1991 I typed out a simple “Pastured Poultry Manual” and offered it for $15. Seuss) or an incredible idea (pastured poultry).

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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. I was 10 years old when neighbors began using crop dusters to apply pesticides and herbicides. It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation.

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Food Crop Rotation Farming Farming 52

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We see that in the worsening of herbicide resistance in weeds and increased need for pesticides that never actually solve pest problems. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? Taking the next step Todays agricultural system is very efficient but very unstable.

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Ranching Farming Farming Ruralism 59

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. Hilborn traced the mystery to the agricultural chemicals—neonicotinoids, fungicides, and glyphosate—used on an adjoining property.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water. Wilde was forced to pipe water in.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Our farm participated in a pastured egg nutrient study several years ago. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft. Scarcity moved to abundance.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Holly Purdys Exmoor farm exemplifies the concept of better meat, with her pasture-fed beef and sheep, and more plants, through the introduction of a market garden and silvopasture incorporating fruit trees.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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