Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Exploring Uncharted Knowledge Gaps Working with limited funding, OREI and ORG have enabled tremendous strides in advancing the science and practice of organic farming and ranching over the past two decades.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness. Sustainable practices, such as precision irrigation and fertilization, and reduced pesticide use, will be more widely adopted, leading to more harmonious environmental use.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Tenants agree to not use any pesticides and allow the Wicklers access to the yard. Ranching on Public Lands Andr é Houssney runs Jacob Springs Farm , a regenerative ranch that produces dairy, beef, lamb, pork, chickens, and wheat in East Boulder. Most of the tenants really like that we maintain the properties,” says Wickler.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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DTN

JANUARY 9, 2025

This could include alerts for impending weather events, suggestions for adjusting fertilizer applications based on crop stress indicators, or advice on the optimal timing for pesticide applications. Because the amount of data associated with farming and ranching is only growing is scope and scale.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network – $10 million, full funding Funding will continue efforts to scale assistance programs and create training and partnerships to serve rural Americans—60% of whom live in areas with mental health professional shortages. Office of Pest Management Policy – $3.4

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Workshop gives private pesticide applicator license holders chance to earn continuing education units The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a Last Chance Continuing Education Unit, CEU, workshop on Feb. 20 in Waco. The event will be held from 8 a.m.-3:30 at the AgriLife Extension office in McLennan County, 4224 Cobbs Drive.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Event features pesticide safety, right-of-way, turf and ornamental pest management presentations The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold the annual Right-of-Way, ROW, and the ornamental and turf, OAT, conference on Jan. 25 in Amarillo.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

They are natural phenomena which some have been clever enough to discern and codify so the rest of us can better understand how to work with them as guides in our farming, ranching, and even landscaping ventures. No soil amendments, no herbicides, no pesticides, no fungicides ever used.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The entire production chain of the feedstuffs going into modern confinement dairies and feedlots involves the burning of fossil fuels to produce the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides necessary for large-scale, mono-crop, industrial production of corn and soy.

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AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Pesticide applicator recertification also offered Beef producers will learn more about the 2024 cattle market outlook at the 62nd Blackland Income Growth Conference Jan. 9-10 at the BASE Extraco Events Center, 4601 Bosque Blvd., The event is sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Cost is $25 for the Jan. 9 sessions.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Barmann, who previously served as vice president, is a managing partner at CS Ranch in Colfax County, New Mexico. February is National Pesticide Safety Education Month and a time to review pesticide safety practices at your home or business, announces the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA).

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Photography by Shutterstock/Lukas Guertler The Chewy Science of Cultivated Meat Even as the 18th-largest cattle ranching state, Florida’s cattle history has deep roots dating back to Spanish colonization in the 16th century.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The members of trade association CropLife International have issued an Industry Declaration renewing and reaffirming their commitment to the principles and standards of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management. Campbell Tractor Co. , potato, leading to healthier and higher-quality products, including potato chips.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Wednesday Morning Summit: REGISTRATION + TICKET INFO And in the afternoon, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), our Summit will focus on “ Building Healthy Soils, Reducing Food Waste, and Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides.”

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more. A field of Hopi corn, nonirrigated, grown with no herbicides, pesticides, or soil amenities such as nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Soil is alive.

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AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Gene editing, phage technology, crops and livestock among projects supported The post Texas A&M AgriLife faculty earn Advancing Discovery to Market Innovation Awards appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 17, 2023

Technically, this violates the regulations on spraying pesticides, but it happens every year in too many places. Now the whole ranch is exposed to chronic overgrazing and degradation from the grazing animals. The wind conditions aren't right, but it's applied anyway, regardless of the impact on land and people downwind.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2025

International expert provides Australians with Texas-based eradication solutions The post AgriLife Extension entomologist crosses globe to tackle fire ants appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, they often face barriers to accessing federal conservation programs, because their farms and ranches tend to be small. Young farmers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and need support to continue implementing solutions on their farms.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

AgriLife Extension offers advice on ants, scorpions, rodents and more If you’re not a fan of creepy crawlies, especially inside your home, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts may have some bad news for you. The stretch of very hot, dry weather across much of the state is pushing more pests indoors. So, you may.

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AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AgriLife Research scientists switch from defense to offense to fight the U.S.’s s most devastating citrus disease The post Hope for the citrus industry appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 16, 2024

Rondon brings nematode management expertise to Lubbock The post Marina Rondon joins Texas A&M AgriLife to support plant pathology research and extension efforts appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Five Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units offered The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be hosting the Blackland Income Growth Conference recertification program from 8 a.m.-2:30 10 at the BASE Extraco Events Center, 4401 Bosque Blvd., Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Cost to register is $65, and the deadline.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Event topics include insect and plant pest management The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be presenting the Fall 2023 Integrated Pest Management, IPM, Seminar from 8 a.m.-5p.m. 15 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas. The event will be held in the Water Education Building, located at 17360.

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UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

Mentored by regenerative farming and ranching pioneer Alejando Carrillo, Mestas hopes he, too, can positively influence his farming colleagues by offering learning and training opportunities. In conventional agriculture, solutions are sold to you by the big agrochemical companies,” he says.

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UnderstandingAg

AUGUST 16, 2024

Mentored by regenerative farming and ranching pioneer Alejando Carrillo, Mestas hopes he, too, can positively influence his farming colleagues by offering learning and training opportunities. In conventional agriculture, solutions are sold to you by the big agrochemical companies,” he says.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 1, 2024

Rustom intends to address grower needs, increase efficiency and profitability The post Grower-focused programs aim of new AgriLife Extension rice agronomist in Beaumont appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides technical assistance for soil health testing, nutrient management planning, irrigation systems upgrades and more—all with the goal of improving productivity while reducing environmental impact on your farm or ranch! Tips for renting or buying farmland for new farmers 1.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled (right away anyway) to read his books. This wasn’t about ranching, this was about everything. Salatin was a real farmer.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), Pesticide use has increased more than 150%. and various production technologies.

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