Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Davis Med Center. Obviously, we’re not going to change patient behavior.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This podcast has been partially funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada The post EP 75 From Pastures to Cheese – SoR Part 7 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP 75 From Pastures to Cheese – SoR Part 7 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Justin Morris Has your pasture been plagued by poor plant growth? Does water pond on the surface of your pasture either during or right after a rain or irrigation event? Or does water run off your pasture to the point that it leaves behind ugly scars of erosion or floods out other areas that are lower in the landscape?

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here is a link to a video that talks about assessing pasture soil health using these tools. First, locate an area of the pasture that seems representative of the whole pasture. An 18-inch-long slice of soil positioned horizontally on a pasture to make it easier to look at soil structure and rooting depth.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, on balance I would argue that this has not been good for rural America. And its not just our farmers and ranchers who are affected, its their local communities scattered all across rural America that have decayed right alongside them. In the process it led to the decline of our rural communities.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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ATTRA

JUNE 11, 2024

If you don’t have perfectly placed trees throughout your paddocks, you can use portable shade structures that you rotate along with your portable mineral feeder and water tanks when you move your livestock to fresh pastures. A relatively new way of providing shade for livestock is grazing around solar panels. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The resurgence gained further traction in the 1990s with support from the Department of Defenses Rural Economic Transition Assistance-Hawaii grants , which helped farmers shift from sugarcane plantations to diversified agriculture. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This community used to form the backbone of UK rural culture, however, during my lifetime of dairy farming, it has been decimated. Worst of all, it will perpetuate and accelerate the loss of one of our most precious cultural assets, the small family-run dairy farm. In response, I said, “Good answer.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Luke Bryan’s “Here’s to the Farmer” mentions subdivisions creeping in, threatening to overtake fields and pastures. It is transforming many of the once-rural communities on its edges. It devastates wildlife habitats, impacts the climate, and harms rural economies. It can lead, at times, to rural gentrification.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. The approaches that my grandfather took to manage the land, and the way my parents turned a portion of it into a homestead, allowed me to watch it go from pasture to forest,” says Crombie. “My

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With dry conditions affecting pastures across Alberta, this practice could help build resiliency in your pastures and livestock during times of drought. REGISTER The post Grazing for Water Management January 21st, 2022 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. Register Today.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. A large portion of their farm serves as rotational pasture for the goats and horses.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. Local fiber systems are being revitalized, supporting rural economies by providing stable employment opportunities. Sustainable fashion is more than a trend; it has real benefits for rural economies, the environment, and our health. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 15, 2023

Fortunately, the management practices for maintaining this conduit of nutrient exchange tend to be the same ones we’d use in good pasture management. The post EP58 Fungi in Drought appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP58 Fungi in Drought appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature. Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, this relatively simple feeding system begins to fall apart when you get hit by drought; forage isn’t growing in your pasture and the price of hay goes through the roof. The post EP56 Feed Additives appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On top of that, any long-term sustainable farming system in a place like Wales, needs must include livestock, with the fatty acids from pasture-fed animals going a long way in a dish like cawl. There is a detailed description of what went into a normal family’s cawl by the early 19th century, from the traveller Heath Malkin.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Causes of Compaction There are generally two major causes of soil compaction on pastures: hoof impact and overgrazing. Research has shown that the amount of root exudates was lowest when: 1) leaves were removed in the vegetative phase (phase one); and 2) when plants were grazed severely (close to the pasture surface).

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Most expensive pastures per acre New Jersey: $16,600 Florida: $6,500 North Carolina: $5,550 Tennessee: $4,900 Virginia: $4,650 Highest percentage increase in pasture price year-over-year Kansas: 16.2% Take Advantage of the Booming Farmland Market At AgAmerica, we’re committed to helping rural landowners succeed. Nebraska: 13.8%

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Not to mention how handy that strip of greenery adjacent to a wetland can be when your pasture isn’t growing or recovering the way you need it to. The post EP55 Riparian Accounts appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP55 Riparian Accounts appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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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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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 at 1:00PM Presenter: Dr. Jillian Bainard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Cost: FREE Producers rely on grazing native, tame perennial pastures or stockpiled feed to typically feed their livestock. The post Polycultures December 7th, 2022 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Missouri landowners, agricultural lenders, rural appraisers and others with firsthand knowledge of acreage transactions are invited to respond to the annual Missouri Farmland Value Opinion Survey.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Here we are planting trees in our pastures, so that in 10 to twelve years we can have dappled shade.” In addition to mitigating extreme heat risks and promoting soil health, trees planted on pastures and fields act as a way to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. Orefice said.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 31, 2023

Last year, Planet and Organic Valley completed a pilot program using satellite imagery to evaluate pasture health in service of regenerative rotational grazing. The National Park Service even uses satellite imagery to monitor landscape changes in some of its parks. Agriculture is no exception. We have a small farm at home as well.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently called on three state agencies to take action to protect the health of rural residents. Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Based on my experience working with Rural Routes to Climate Solutions over the last six years, agriculture has enough humility and modesty when it comes to belief in one’s self. The differences between South Glanton and Bla-Kar weren’t as big as the differences between the three farms I wrote about in Regenerating Rural Opportunities.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pasture fertility, healthy livestock, reduced nutrient runoff, all thanks to dung beetles. Even if you’re not a romantic, there are still plenty of other reasons to love dung beetles: it’s estimated that they provide millions of dollars’ worth of nutrient retention and pest fly reduction per year. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service promote sustainable agriculture practices benefitting both rural communities and wildlife. Agencies like the U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The session was expertly chaired by Baroness Sue Hayman, previously Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Anna Blumfield, Deersbrook Farm Anna Blumfield from Deersbrook Farm rears pasture-fed Sussex cattle and runs a farm shop and butchery. We can’t afford to lose any more small abattoirs.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While you may throw in a shelter belt or an eco buffer, we hope that you’re also giving your pasture adequate rest and recovery so moisture can soak into the soil. The post EP53 Dugouts appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP53 Dugouts appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

farmland market trends directly affect the equity and borrowing power of rural landowners. As agricultural land values continue to rise in 2024, farmers and ranchers are navigating a landscape marked by both opportunity and risk. Overview of the 2024 Farmland Market The U.S. National Trends Farmland values in the U.S. percent for U.S.

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RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

This podcast has been partially funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada The post EP 77 – Healthy Food, Healthy Environment – SoR Part 9 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions. The post EP 77 – Healthy Food, Healthy Environment – SoR Part 9 appeared first on Rural Routes to Climate Solutions.

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