National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples of these investments are the Meat and Poultry Programs (MP programs), such as the Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG), Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) and Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which have helped smaller plants scale up or prepare themselves for federal inspection utilizing different sized grants and loans.

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Processing Poultry Farming Farming 110

Caff

MAY 18, 2023

Ken Walker of Pasture 42 in Guinda, CA then walks us through how they incorporate sheep and poultry into their orchards, which were designed with animal integration in mind. Both expand on the benefits and challenges of integrating livestock, as well as considerations for pasture, rotational grazing, and food safety.

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Pasture Farming Farming Ecology 52

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the protein category, the new guidelines move meat, poultry, and eggs to the bottom tier, below seafood, nuts, seeds, and soy products. But no additional differentiation exists, like the difference between grass finished and grain finished beef, or pastured poultry versus factory farmed.

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Poultry Grain Forage Pasture 109

The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

On a farm like ours, 10,000 pastured chickens can provide one full-time salary. billion would be enough to support 38,000 full-time pastured poultry farmers. If a full-time salary requires at least 300 of these per year, that’s enough for 21,000 full-time pastured pork operations. It’s 380 million chickens at $20 each.

Pasture 52

Pasture Poultry Production Food 52

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 67

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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Food Pasture Livestock Agriculture 134

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork. Most of their beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are marketed directly to consumers and local restaurants. He continues to learn and study through reading and visiting with other farmers.

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Farming Farming Poultry Pasture 52

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Many of you realized that this is not what I’m advocating instead of pasture, but some folks jumped to the conclusion that I had all of a sudden abandoned outdoor chickens in favor of indoor protocols. I didn’t say to quit pasturing chickens. Well, we’ve certainly got a lively discussion going with a HENDOMINIUM in city apartments.

Pasture 81

Pasture Food Compost Ecology 81

ATTRA

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Available course topics include cut flower production, poultry production, pastured pigs, mushroom cultivation, maple syrup production, vegetable and berry production, and woodlot management. Courses have tiered pricing based on household size and income to make access to the courses more affordable and equitable for everyone.

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Production Pasture Poultry Farming 40

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 8, 2022

As avian influenza runs through the nation’s poultry flocks, with the current extermination of about 28 million laying hens and turkeys, I can’t help but wonder why we aren’t putting beak masks on the chickens. Hmmmm, I wonder if decentralization of poultry would be better than centralization. Notice that on one farm, 5.8

Pasture 52

Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 52

ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs. This waterer provided frost-free water for the cull ewes on pasture this past week with wind chill temperatures in the 30-below-and-worse range. We have a group of doelings in another pasture and we put a heated bucket there. Heated poultry waterer and heated bucket.

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Livestock Cattle Pasture Poultry 98

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Adam’s and Elizabeth’s goal is to be a whole, complete-diet farm that offers heirloom fruits and vegetables; goat milk, kefir, and cheese; culinary and medicinal herbs; eggs; and pastured, lamb, goat, and poultry.

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Farming Farming Pasture Poultry 52

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 And that’s by design.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 97

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. I did have to put huge aviaries up to protect my poultry from coyotes and sometimes a persistent fox,” she wrote in an email to Civil Eats. hopefully, eat mice and rabbits!”

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Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 114

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. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

Poultry 52

Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. Tetrick says his company has no interest in squeezing out small-scale poultry farming operations that favor sustainable and humane methods. The lab at Good Meat.

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Cultivation Food Production Poultry 92

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Every species is different, and he’ll address cattle, hogs, and poultry transport and movement. Three of our urban patrons will talk about why they buy pastured meat and poultry. I’ll do a presentation on landscape design. Lots of people either buy a place or have a place and just don’t know where to start. I’ll answer that.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Poultry Cattle 52

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 23, 2021

In some cases, the Standards have devolved from the original intention of OFPA, as in the example of enclosed poultry porches substituting for outdoor access. The pasture compliance which large organic livestock producers circumvent openly and aggressively.

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Poultry Grain Pasture Production 52

Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

At the heart of the issue throughout the industry is an overwhelmingly common poultry disease called coccidiosis, caused by a parasite that is almost universally present in chicken waste. Poultry & Egg Association found a direct link between the move away from antibiotics and rising mortality rates. A 2023 report from the U.S.

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Production Poultry Food Farming 128

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Como, Mississippi’s Home Place Pastures was among the recipients and received $500,000 to increase cold storage and processing capacity. From there, he could branch out to poultry, pork, bison and lamb. “That would go a long way toward creating an affordable and sustainable regional food system,” says Mosser.

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Supply Chain Processing Cattle Marketing 115

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 13, 2022

I couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if he’d procured his chickens from Polyface or some other authentic pastured poultry producer and offered a true blue honestly transparent differentiated option. My whole takeaway was this: “why can’t an authentic fast food model exist?” What if he didn’t fake anything?

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Free Range Food Pasture Poultry 52

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Avoid the use of manure (products) and waste from off-premise (poultry, cattle, or other livestock) unless products are certified pathogen-free.

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Livestock Manure Farming Farming 87

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. It brought the house down.

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Pasture Poultry Farming Farming 60

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

USPOULTRY ’s Women’s Leadership Conference provided attendees with a slate of speakers to facilitate career growth and development among women leaders in the poultry and egg industry.

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Manufacturing Ranching Cattle Beverage 59

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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Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 71

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf. A suspicion arises about exactly who’s pressing this anti-pastoralist narrative and why. 3] There’s a naïve irresponsibility here that’s hard to fathom.

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Manufacturing Production Pasture Food 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The production facilities are also producing high protein animal feed and distillers corn oil which goes into poultry feed market or renewable diesel and biodiesel. He further outlined that the ethanol industry consumed about 5.5 billion bushels of corn this year, that’s about ⅓ of overall corn produced in the country.

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Acre Production Crop Greenhouse 52

Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

Their highly-diversified farm produces organic dairy, beef, lamb, poultry, eggs, and even yarn made from their sheep, goats and angora rabbits. From cover crops to maintaining wild habitat for biodiversity to ensuring a pasture-based approach, they pay close attention to the health of their land and animals.

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Farming Farming Food Marketing 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

used farm management software to consolidate their farm data from multiple years of running their cattle, pig, poultry, and sheep farm operation that was disorganized, not able to scale, and the land was suffering from overgrazing. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 63

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Animal and Livestock Commodity Prices Cattle and Calves In 2022, dry weather reduced the amount of pasture available for grazing, forcing many ranchers to send a higher-than-average number of cattle to slaughter, driving quantity up and demand down. rice may also backfill into the Caribbean, along with parts of Central and South America.

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Agriculture Agriculture Cattle Yield 59

Farmbrite

MARCH 9, 2023

Or specialty products, such as organic, pasture raised or omega-3 eggs. You probably can’t compete on price with the supermarket. But you could offer personal knowledge and connections to your food’s origins. If your eggs are significantly fresher than other options, there is a lot of value there.

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Marketing Production Distribution Farming 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Pollution from Tyson farmers’ corn and soybean fields and poultry and beef CAFOs, for example, has severely impacted Midwest waterways. Such large suppliers have a history of environmental pollution. What’s more, deforestation is one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 131

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Though meat, poultry, and fish have never been high-profit menu items, the margins have grown even slimmer as protein prices have spiked, increasingly due to climate events that can unfold rapidly. To call these events ‘natural disasters’ ignores their true origin.” We’ll have no choice,” she says.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Food Farming Farming 87

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Brent and Anna and their family raise pork and chicken on pasture. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Sally and JP and their growing full-time and part-time staff raise certified naturally grown produce and pasture-raised, organic-fed pork, poultry, and eggs.

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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 52

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Here, Harris recommends a good nighttime shelter to keep poultry and small livestock, such as sheep and goats, safe from predators. She also suggests using hot wire fencing for any livestock pastures, making sure that the fencing is offset from areas of brush or thick timber from which a predator might be able to ambush.

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Livestock Crop Farming Farming 138