Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Pasture-raised”? The process to be certified “USDA Organic” can be cumbersome for farmers, so the “ Certified Naturally Grown ” label uses the same requirements but is verified by a team of CNG farmers, not the USDA. Pasture-raised: This does not require third-party verification, so it’s hard to know what it means to the producer.

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Food Free Range Pasture Poultry 121

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. Ultimately, hurricanes and high-pressure systems are “large-scale dynamics that occur at a planetary scale”—and unlikely to be influenced by local processes.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. When it’s time to process the birds, he uses the whole animal, including the feet, bones and organs—leaving nothing to be sent to the landfill.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 110

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JUNE 19, 2024

As programs and assistance roll out, there can often be barriers or pains engaging in the process. So far I have assisted with accessing equipment, the grant-writing processes, social and mentor connections, and hope to facilitate many more resources and relationships in the future. I have been stuck in the mud (literally!),

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Pasture Processing Farming Farming 98

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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Production Farming Farming Crop Rotation 97

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It allowed me to triple the size of my operation and have healthier animals—they’re up on pasture [on the new land],” she said. We’re thinking more sustainably and regeneratively, thinking outside the monoculture box—about pasture, carbon sequestering, and perennial farming.”

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Farming Farming Pasture Acre 143

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. Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Photography via author.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 87

Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Situated in the Wisconsin northwoods, Dave and Jodi Cronauer raise Idaho Pasture Pigs, American Bison, and Gypsy Vanner Horses on their farm and they manage the Idaho Pasture Pig Registry. Jodi is also the author of the book “Raising Pigs on Green Pastures”. Jodi is local to the area and grew up in Florence, Wisconsin.

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Food Pasture Farming Farming 52

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Causes of Compaction There are generally two major causes of soil compaction on pastures: hoof impact and overgrazing. Not only do roots mechanically help to open the soil by pushing their way through the soil, but more importantly they release hundreds of carbon-based compounds like sugars and amino acids, a process known as root exudation.

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Soil Compaction Livestock Forage Pasture 103

The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 16, 2024

For the record, my initial thoughts about Covid in the spring of 2020, for which I was excoriated by friends in the organic/pastured livestock movement, have now been proven to be exactly correct. In addition to tracking movement, a slaughter house could be forced to not process animals without RFID tags. Go back and read ‘em.

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Livestock Pasture Processing 89

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By Hakeem Holmes, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Lean is a business process improvement concept that focuses on the elimination of non-value-added activities from processes, which are defined as waste. Producing more than is needed or producing faster than the next stage of value-added processing can lead to overproduction.

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Farming Farming Processing Livestock 75

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Anthony, IN, has substantially reduced the impacts of downpours on his farm by adopting managed rotational grazing and improving his pastures. She has shifted her farm away from the corn and soybean rotation so common in her area, and is instead employing pasture and grazing systems. A clover crop interseeded into pasture.

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Pasture Crop Orchard Farming 117

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

We’re rethinking the farm process based on climate predictions,” Payne said. Here we are planting trees in our pastures, so that in 10 to twelve years we can have dappled shade.” The question is, ‘Does our economy allow us to scale pasture-based livestock production?’” The question isn’t really, ‘Is silvopasture scalable?’”

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods. Customers couldn’t get enough of the local grass-farmed treats. .”

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Food Farming Farming Compost 109

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The 10-acre farm outside Hamilton, Montana is run by Noah Jackson and Mary Bricker, who dedicate four irrigated acres of pasture to their laying hens. It displays the SweetRoot Farm logo—a beet sticking out of a row of dirt—and the text “Pastured eggs. Organic, GMO-free feed and whole grains, moved to fresh pasture regularly.

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Pasture Food Production Farming 123

Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

But the process of converting your farm from grain-finished beef to grass-finished beef can be daunting. Climate conditions: growing season in your area will determine how much time is available for grazing and how often you can rotate animals through different pastures. Here are a few tips that will help make the transition easier: 1.

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Pasture Farming Farming Forage 52

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

One week before Thanksgiving, when he was going to process them, he went out to feed them and they were gone. When we tried to move them every day to a new pasture spot, they went nuts. My best story was a guy in Georgia who wanted to raise heritage Red Bourbons. He never did find them--a flock of 100 birds.

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Pasture Processing Farming Farming 74

Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2024

Pasteurization is a process discovered in the 19 th century that involves heating products to 145 F, which kills off almost all yeasts, molds, and disease-causing bacteria such as Salmonella and listeria —potentially deadly if transmitted to people. But despite these rulings, to date, Miller has not been shut down.

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Production Food Cattle Farming 115

Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s also a difference between heavily processed meat products and unprocessed meat, both in their effects on the body and the climate. Some argue that intensive factory farms produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, in general, than extensive, pasture-fed systems. But not everyone can do that.

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Greenhouse Production Animal Agriculture Pasture 124

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Although they were not officially tenants of more than half the land, they continued to farm all 61 acres, grazing 20 acres of pasture that had passed into the hands of Bristol City Council, and managing the remaining 13 acres as a hay meadow by sub-letting it from the tenant of the company that had made the original purchase.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The reasoning behind the cultivation of lab grown meat is comprised of several thought processes. Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? The researchers tracked the energy used in each step of the cultivation process.

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Food Cultivation Forage Production 96

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The report does differentiate between processed meats and unprocessed. But no additional differentiation exists, like the difference between grass finished and grain finished beef, or pastured poultry versus factory farmed. The guidelines impact school lunch programs and the public's general perception of dietary options.

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Poultry Grain Forage Pasture 97

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Acid rain falling downwind of industrial processes acidifies soils much quicker, as was observed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Page 397) Manmade Soil Acidification The processes listed above naturally take a long time to play out and find an equilibrium. Second, rain is naturally slightly acidic and adds H + to the soil.

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Fertilizer Distribution Processing Pasture 84

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Plants welcome me in their leafy grace, As part of a process, essential to embrace. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. The same process is happening everywhere that plants grow. It's simple.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. Each farm can qualify for a maximum of around $15,000 in payments per year.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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 Poultry 143

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

the FDAs 2002 advisory, which labels kava as an unapproved food additive with potential health risks, still rules, lumping traditional preparations together with processed products. The state ruling recognizes noble kava cultivars brewed with water or coconut water as safe, while warning against alcohol-based extracts and processed products.

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Food Plantation Acre Production 130

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another. Unlike Utesch, Mardesen of A-Frame Acres does use antibiotics to treat a pig if it falls ill, but he uses a strict documentation process.

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Cattle Food Acre Livestock 141

The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. So there is a lot of space for climate mitigation as well.

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Science Agriculture Agriculture Food 119

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork. Jacob describes their thinking about these processes and their rotations. He continues to learn and study through reading and visiting with other farmers.

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Farming Farming Poultry Pasture 52

Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

Plus, the application is designed to protect pasture legumes, like white clover, while targeting the weeds. The sheer amount of data collected by farm equipment, drone imagery, and crop analytics can’t be processed by a human. It will need to be processed by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Technology Farming Farming Finance 98

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

The factors that go into this depend on the type of livestock you raise, how much land you have to graze, what types of hay grow best in your region, whether you will store the hay, will you have access to machinery to process the hay. It's necessary for many critical cell processes, functions, and overall growth.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 86

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

My parents divorced when I was six years old, and I spent a lot of that time at my cousins’ farm where we ran wild through pasture and forest, daring each other to touch hotwire and finding portals in the branches of yew trees. A few weeks ago, we processed the first litter of meat rabbits. The experience ended up being pure magic.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

We have indeed lost the meaning and importance of food in an increasingly homogenised landscape of ultra-processed products, and this is something we should be deeply concerned about. Unfortunately, most hedgerows are now flailed in the autumn, a brutal process that is likely to leave them “degraded habitat” according to the charity, Buglife.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We That first year, the small staff processed 1,000 chickens.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98