UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. C4 plants undergo photosynthetic process to fix carbon in the plants). He’s hopeful that their lessons learned will help to shape how they ranch over the next five years.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. I’m open-minded about it.”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. Every two days, they move their cows to a new pasture and the animals have plenty of space from one another.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. As she has allowed pastures to rest, she has seen the return of species diversity and a rise in perennial grasses.

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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Acid rain falling downwind of industrial processes acidifies soils much quicker, as was observed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Something that is very prominent in the region is the rigorous animal selection process for grass-finished adaptive genetics. This is exactly how I was forced to adopt adaptive stewardship during a multiyear drought on my own ranch in Chihuahua. Most operations follow PRV or a similar multi-paddock rotation system.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner.

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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. Unfortunately, the exclusion of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from many data collection processes limits the ability of decision-makers in the region to understand and adapt to climate change.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Griebel and Dana started out in their first year, experimenting with 12 head of cattle, and nearly decade later, they’re raising 70 head and processing the meat right on the farm. Everything we’ve raised will also die and be processed on the farm.” Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Family, land, forest, water and the desire to work — that has been our commitment, and be aware that this is not an overnight process. All these processes take a long time, but you see the results,” Gutiérrez said.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness. If processing the information or making these changes is too big a hurdle for you it won't be useful.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether you're a seasoned farmer or rancher , an aspiring farmer looking to venture intofarming or ranching, or a farm business owner who wants to have a strong plan as they transition into another farm business, its helpful to know how to write and use a business plan. Figuring this out ahead of time will save you lost customers.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

As CEO, one of his first actions was to send an employee on a quest: Find the “most regenerative” ranch, he instructed. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. The September Montana ranch tour and presentation.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Lime is used in both agricultural and industrial processes, including wastewater treatment and sugar beet processing. Its much more complex than that.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

I come from a family of farmers: my maternal grandparents farmed more than 25 acres of vegetables from the 1960s to the 1980s, and my paternal grandfather farmed nearly 80 acres of pasture grass from the 1970s to the early 2000s. The second major barrier the Young Farmers network has identified is difficult application processes.

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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. The stability of land ownership lets farmers plan more resilient and diverse operations, he adds.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 11, 2025

As farm and ranch managers, we control the timing, intensity, duration, frequency and pattern of the disruptions. To be effective in building resiliency in our farm and ranch operations, implementing our disruption cannot violate the Six Principles of Soil Health. Lets take a closer look at each aspect of a grazing disruption.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The most common issues regarding soil health are; severe compaction, no aggregate structure or pore space to sustain biogeochemical processes , little organic matter , poor water infiltration and low water-holding capacity. We saw a lot of countryside in Uruguay as we drove from ranch to ranch.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

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