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FENCELINE FINESSE

The Lunatic Farmer

The idea is to create something valuable that incentivizes you to keep after the pruning. 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. Good trees are valuable. One final thing.

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GRASS MANAGEMENT         

The Lunatic Farmer

On the timothy, we wanted to take half, leave half in order to shepherd it with a lighter pruning and keep it growing rapidly. Stockman Grass Farmer is the world's leading publication dedicated to pastured livestock production and it has been my compass of direction and fount of inspiration for 40 years.

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This Immersive Farm Apprenticeship is Training the Next Generation of Farmers

Modern Farmer

In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. It’s a lot of work. “To

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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

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. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

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. Luckily, Turner gives readers best practices on how to properly care for their preserves by reviewing at-home food safety measures.

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