Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Permanent pastures are very biodiverse and a habitat for many different species In July, I was in Ridsdale, a village about 20km north of the market town of Hexham in Northumberland and visited four tenant farmers. Walton also spends £15,000 on straw and he has to pay £20,000 in land rent. Michael Walton: cutting costs but how?

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 67

Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Additionally, ensure you have the necessary equipment for snow removal to maintain access to your facilities and pastures. Straw or hay bedding can help insulate the ground and provide warmth. This should include basic medical supplies for your cattle, such as antibiotics, wound care items, and essential medications.

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Cattle Livestock Ranching Straw 52

Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Additionally, ensure you have the necessary equipment for snow removal to maintain access to your facilities and pastures. Straw or hay bedding can help insulate the ground and provide warmth. This should include basic medical supplies for your cattle, such as antibiotics, wound care items, and essential medications.

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Cattle Livestock Ranching Straw 52

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The large pasture is securely fenced and split into individual paddocks separated by electric fencing. The canvas covers a spacious area with deep straw bedding, and towards the back is a good sized ‘run’ with one corner designated by the inhabitants as the ‘toilet’ – pigs are very clean and don’t soil their resting and feeding area.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 104

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Our permanent pastures are beautifully diverse with plant mixtures that change and evolve over the years. However, if we over-manage a hedge or intervene by planting a single species or mechanically trimming the hedge too severely, too often or too early in the autumn, we risk suppressing its biodiversity potential.

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Farming Farming Straw Meadow 52

Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

Many report improvements on metrics like welfare-improving lighting and “enrichments,” a term for things like perches and straw bales added to barns that allow birds to express their natural behaviors. Julia Johnson, the leader of CIWF’s Compassion in Food Business in the U.S.,

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Production Poultry Food Farming 116