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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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. What I found was the first year following the plow, the new crop looked great, but I now realize that this was the result of a release of carbon from the soil propping up the new seeding. The soil ecosystem fixes itself if you treat it correctly.

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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 96

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. The rolling hills of Brendan Balthazar’s leased pasture up the mountain in Kula are lined with invasive trees that are difficult to maintain. It’s a one-way valve.”

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 124

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.

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Textiles Seeding Processing Acre 87

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Hay is often harvested and used as animal fodder when there is not enough live pasture to graze animals on, when grazing is not feasible due to weather, or when an animal is unable to access a pasture. Hay is also used when a pasture is too lush or nutrient-rich for the well-being of livestock.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 4, 2025

For example, let's say that the seeds that you could find easily before are harder to find and much more expensive now. You might decide to raise the seed yourself the next year and sell locally. high-quality meat, milk production, adaptability to climate, rare breed seeds, etc.) That could be good or bad for your business.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Experts caution producers to watch for problematic weeds that may invade pastures around hay-feeding sites. The reasons are twofold, say range and pasture experts with Corteva Agriscience. Weed seeds (they’re viable even after they’ve dried out) can linger in hay baled from fields that were not treated.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It made me feel so good that someone believed in me and what I was doing on my farm.” (Photos courtesy of Jeff Siewicki) He positioned himself as a pasture poultry farmer to set himself apart from industrial poultry farmers and pivoted to selling to restaurants and wholesale. “I couldn’t believe it when he bought some birds.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Whatever happens, like the wildflower seeds that stick to my trousers, the land grabs hold of me, and it wont let go. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. Farmers can also receive payments for growing so-called “alternative” crops such as oats and other small grains, and for converting crop acres to deep-rooted perennial systems like hay and pasture.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

ATTRA

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Projects can include fencing, cover crop seeds, reduced tillage equipment, irrigation, pasture establishment, pollinator habitat, and other conservation practices.

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The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Back in May a video team spent 3 days here at Polyface filming my course titled RECLAIMING PASTURE. Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures. I created the content, outline, filming schedule and picked the locations where we’d film.

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Farmbrite

JULY 10, 2023

. • 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. Determine how much pasture your livestock will need each day and how much forage is required for each animal at various stages of production.

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Pasture Farming Farming Forage 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Wells could try to seed his crops early , so they can be harvested before the nymphs mature into eating machines. Farmers need warm weather to seed, and the warmer it gets, the faster the nymphs grow. It will take years for the pastures and perennial forages to recover, and that’s only if conditions improve. Does it work?

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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. They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. There’s also the “Fuzz and Buzz” – a solar seed blend used at the Brookfield site that benefits pollinators and sheep. The grazing fees make that cost affordable.” “I

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

It's important to understand your USDA hardiness zone and how the seed will germinate, grow, and reproduce in your area. This method is beneficial for the long-term health of your pasture and ensures that the pasture isn't overgrazed. It is a valuable supplement during the winter months when fresh pasture is limited.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 86

Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Seed formation and germination: Molybdenum plays a vital role in the synthesis of phytohormones, such as abscisic acid (ABA), which regulates seed dormancy, germination, and early seedling growth. Therefore, adequate molybdenum levels are necessary for optimal seed formation and viability.

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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. This particular bed will expand from its current size and composition to cover about 1,000 sq.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act The Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act is an important climate adaptation tool for agriculture. Note: This bill is being championed by CalCAN, NSAC, Organic Valley and the National Farmers Union.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

Obviously the disturbance, and then those deep tap rooted weeds, awakened the latent seed bank of timothy (some seeds no doubt had lain dormant for decades) and the conditions were perfect for that wonderful grass to express itself. For two days you can rub shoulders with like-minded graziers and converse with experts in the field.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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. It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

While those bovines have been helping to restore the soil on their temporary pasture, the 18 raised beds that were planted last year and ⅛-acre demonstration field have all been prepared for the students who will be starting the program in September.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

All this used to be pasture,” said Petronila Gutiérrez, who, together with her husband and children, runs the La Miranda farm, a 79-hectare (195-acre) property they have reforested and worked with sustainable agriculture and cattle-raising techniques. “It Here on the farm, I have more than 80 different seeds.” Image by Antonio Paz.

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Farming Farming Seeding Acre 52

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Transportation waste can appear in many ways on your farm, such as irrigation, field layouts, or even how your livestock are transported to new pasture. Inventory comes in many forms: raw materials (seeds, fertilizers, breeder livestock), finished goods, and work-in-progress.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Winner’s of the 2022 Innovation Challenge will receive gifts and cash made possible by Johnny’s Select Seeds and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

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 Bliss Battle.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

They’re also raising pasture-fed pork at Redtail Farms, and while the pork is a profitable venture, Griebel admits that he isn’t sure if it fits into their long-term sustainability plan. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains. It doesn’t need to be weeded, or seeded, or planted.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM BUILDER Written by: Symone Strong April 14, 2023 Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture. Garrett: Indigo will create a complete community by promoting sustainable living in many forms, including a working farm and pasture.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again. I’m always trying something new every year.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

While government schemes financially incentivize planting trees and other vegetation in order to capture carbon on fallow fields, farmers are also finding that native pasture and grasses are more resilient to drought and overgrazing.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

While recognising the criticisms of pasture-based systems, particularly around land-use and climate, Barbour explained how grazing livestock can play a key role in reducing GHG emissions within the food system and argued that we need to look at the climate impact of ruminants in a more rounded way.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Avoid overgrazing your pasture lands. Grazing is an important part of pasture management , but you must be careful not to overgraze your land. If your soil is not healthy enough to support healthy crops, you have to add fertilizer or risk losing your investment in seeds or plants.

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