Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

They were able to plan and schedule movements, increase grazing in different areas throughout their farm and between their pastures, track inventory, improve the health of the land, and increase yields as their livestock had fewer parasites. Since it was web-based they could track these movements from anywhere on their farm.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the consensus is that the kinds of food we eat and how they are produced are more important than whether a supply chain is local or global in terms of reducing negative environmental impacts like biodiversity loss. There is, of course, more to environmental impacts than the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) recently initiated a research project to analyze the potential impacts that vitamin and amino acid supply chain disruptions could have on livestock health and food security.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires. Aggregators and marketers tend to dominate supply chains, however, siphoning revenue and squeezing out small-scale growers. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars. Still, U.H,s

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve just read in Farmers Weekly that Tesco has announced their decision to reduce the number of dairy farmers in their milk supply pool , giving just 12-months’ notice to those who will be dropped. In my opinion, this decision is misguided.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. This helps create a transparent and ethical supply chain. Behind every piece of clothing, there’s a story about soil health and sustainable practices that affect how our clothes are made and their impact on the environment. This is where the story of wool begins.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With all the challenges restaurants have faced in the past five years—COVID, inflation, price gouging—the impact of climate change on their supply chains has often been overlooked. A Pivot to Local Sourcing—Mostly To avoid climate-caused supply chain disruptions, many U.S. climate has a lot to do with it.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

But dog owners distrust this mysterious supply chain. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. full_link LEARN MORE White Oak Pastures uses “radically traditional” farming methods.

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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. What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Four acres of flax at Pasture Song Farm. While he calls it the easiest plant he has grown, he knows there are hesitations.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While his research indicates significant land use changes in the Dakotas - shifting to more row crop production and fewer pastures and CRP, there was only a slight increase in row crop acres in Wisconsin according to their research. Lark agreed with Cooper that ethanol policy has increased demand for corn which has increased crop prices.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Here, we re-visit these issues in the light of the SFTs contribution to the Local Food Plan , a project in partnership with the Landworkers’ Alliance , Food, Farming and Countryside Commission , Pasture For Life and Sustain. In essence, this form of local is, in many respects, compatible with the globalised food supply system.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

With the current high cost of synthetic fertilizers, and even supply chain disruptions, managing the manure resource properly becomes a critical farm task. Applying to perennial pasture after a high-stock-density graze. This does not mean every animal needs to be out on pasture every day of the year. Far from it.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. “I’m trying to figure out what it looks like to be wedded to a place with more of a conservation mindset while still producing food.”

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Farmbrite

APRIL 6, 2023

It can help you keep track of your crops and livestock, creating reports and alerts that tell you when to harvest or move animals to different pastures. FMS can help you keep track of your crops and livestock, creating reports and alerts that tell you when to harvest or move animals to different pastures.

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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. Some solutions offered include grass banks for pasture areas experiencing drought as well as temporary leasing of water. As COVID-19 highlighted, its supply chains are fragile.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

If you’re doing it with integrity, there is not a lot of money to be made at that level of the supply chain,” says Christofore. Haslett-Marroquin’s approach combines what he learned growing up in Guatemala—where chickens thrive in multi-story jungles—with a deep understanding of the Midwest’s native ecosystems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

These include a variety of actions and strategies, including investing in farmer-centered research, incentivizing on-farm conservation programs, increasing funds for local agricultural markets and agricultural easements, expanding pasture-based livestock, and building out on-farm renewable energy production.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience. million starting in 2024.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. Will Harris’ White Oak Pastures in Georgia recently raised $1.2 In the 15 years he spent at Niman Ranch , he increased the network of small family farms raising animals on pasture from 160 to over 850. “We

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cornered supply chains create advantages when negotiating contracts with prisons, school systems and mega-retailers such as Walmart. Consolidation also puts the nation’s food supply at risk. Como, Mississippi’s Home Place Pastures was among the recipients and received $500,000 to increase cold storage and processing capacity.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? A system that does not function by continually squeezing out the inefficient producers to make more profit for those at the top. Do you really need all of the iron in your shed?

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is reflected in the increase of interest in meat with more ethical credentials, including pasture-fed, local and organic. The anonymous and centralised nature of the supermarket meat supply chain further serves to weaken customers connection to the origin of the meat they are buying and their understanding of how it has been produced.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, an extensive report for the Oxford Farming Conference in 2023 assessed whether supply chains could deliver the environmental and social goals the UK seeks. [xxv] This raises the question of whether, with evident private sector ambition, transforming farming can be left to the market.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes. production has not kept pace.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We saw warning signs of that with supply chain shocks during the Covid pandemic. Is it worth trying to outbid everyone for that next field or pasture? A system that does not function by continually squeezing out the inefficient producers to make more profit for those at the top. Do you really need all of the iron in your shed?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2024

This rule may seem counterintuitive at first, but an industry expert told me that Walmart implemented it to manage its own supply chain risk. But I really think a bigger conversation needs to be had over putting the farm bill out to pasture and stripping USDA for parts. I think a lot of reformers in the food space get played.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. The simple reason I find these compelling is that groceries are so very complex.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

.” In 2019, a coalition of animal welfare groups created the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) to push big grocers, restaurants, and especially chicken companies to commit to improving the lives of the birds in their supply chains.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

Hes also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows between pastures; a crop farmer, raising 300 acres of feed like corn and hay; and a mechanic, repairing the equipment necessary to tend that acreage. Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Yet the world of animal by-products (ABP) has a direct bearing on the local meat supply chain. There is also a huge disconnect between the demands on the fashion industry for sustainability and traceability, and how these are reflected in the leather supply chain.

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