Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

In 2016, they began pig farming by joining Niman Ranch, a network of more than 600 small to mid-sized, independent U.S. Niman Ranch members uphold high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices, and they receive a stable, premium market for their pork products. Instead, the Huttons chose a different path.

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West Texas Livestock

JANUARY 25, 2025

Replacement heifers are the backbone of a successful and profitable ranching operation. Over time, breeding stock needs to be rotated out to maintain a strong genetic pool and ensure your herd’s overall health and productivity.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It can be a challenge to talk about ranching in Canada without also talking about winter. That means that livestock feed needs to be grown within a very short timeframe and the animals that are consuming it are fed for Read More It can be a challenge to talk about ranching in Canada without also talking about winter.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Sandhills Ranch Internship Program is accepting applications for its summer program until January 15, 2025, reports Midwest Messenger. The program, facilitated by the Sandhills Task Force, plans to place 10 interns on Nebraska ranches this year, its third in operation.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 11, 2023

The Wray Ranch, owned and operated by Doug and Linda Wray and Tim and Joanne Wray and their families, is being recognized for its efforts to advance environmentally sustainable cattle production. The Wrays, who ranch west of Irricana, Alta.,

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 16, 2024

A Nebraska Sandhills rancher shares his experiences in promoting forage production, healthy animals, healthy land and profit.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 25, 2023

Tara Mulhern Davidson has been ranching for over 15 years, and has had to manage through several severe droughts in the last five. Davidson’s Lonesome Dove Ranch is based at. Read More Tara Mulhern Davidson has been ranching for over 15 years, and has had to manage through several severe droughts in the last five.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. Eagle Rock Ranch. Adding that sales channel and making it easier for people to buy our products helped increase milk sales amid declining consumption,” says Kennedy. Eagle Rock Ranch. But times have changed.

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Event offers inside look at production and marketing of beef Registration is open for the Ranch-Raised Beef Conference on May 30-31 in Bryan-College Station, hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

What’s New From the Shows: Products can help you feed livestock on the farm or ranch.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s a tough lesson in farming and ranching: learning lessons on what doesn’t work can be expensive and time consuming. Read More It’s a tough lesson in farming and ranching: learning lessons on what doesn’t work can be expensive and time consuming. For Grant Lastiwka, rancher at Innisfail, Alta.,

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AgriLife Today

JULY 10, 2023

Beef cattle production event expected to draw 1,900 to Bryan-College Station The 69th annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in Bryan-College Station will offer some cutting-edge ranch technology, along with basic beef cattle production information. The annual event is set for Aug. The annual event is set for Aug.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. But ranchers have been slow to embrace it.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By: Brian Dougherty Understanding Ag, LLC I recently attended a Ranching for Profit (RFP) school where one of the instructors asked a very simple but thought-provoking question: Do you control your business, or does your business control you? That got me ruminating about who is really in the drivers seat on a typical farm or ranch business.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

and various production technologies. farm production more than doubled, and farm size increased from an average of 215 acres in 1950 to 464 acres in 2023. farm output nearly tripled, while global grain production has more than quadrupled since 1950 and has doubled since 1975. From 1950 to 2000, U.S. Between 1961 and 2017, U.S.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In agriculture there are many variables that are well out of our control whether it be ranching, farming or anywhere in between, producers deal with volatile input prices, commodity price fluctuations, and, of course, the weather. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but how do you manage to tip the chance of gain in your favour? Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

A new report commissioned by the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) and the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation (SSGF) looks at the differences in profitability between cow-calf and annual crop production in southwest Saskatchewan. Read More

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) The OREI program awards funds for research conducted on certified organic land to address production, marketing, and socioeconomic constraints on the growth of the organic sector and to elevate the economic and social benefits of organic farming. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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NASDA

JANUARY 22, 2024

Labor Reform Farmers and ranchers need a legal, reliable guest worker program that provides a workforce that supports farms and ranches and treats workers respectfully. Our country must ensure farmers and ranchers keep their agricultural land and animals healthy and productive. territories.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 21, 2024

For the Health of It: Reducing stress can help you stay productive on the farm and ranch.

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AgriLife Today

JUNE 21, 2024

Appointment aims to advance rangeland management, productivity The post Perotto awarded endowed professorship in ranch management appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Through their Conservation Ranching Initiative , the Audubon Society works with ranchers to sustainably steward grasslands. Ranches that meet the Initiative’s standards for conservation are able to sell meat products with the Audubon Society’s bird-friendly seal. according to the Audubon Society.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 24, 2025

In order to be eligible, small and mid-scale farms, ranches, and non-farm food businesses must be growing, producing, processing, and/or supporting the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of grain, pulse, and/or pseudocereal products within local and regional value chains.

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AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Appointment seeks to advance rangeland productivity, ranching profitability The post Goodwin awarded endowed directorship in rangeland and wildlife management appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What’s New From the Shows: Better maintain your farm or ranch with these products.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Texas Crop and Weather Report - March 18, 2025 The post Crawfish production better, but still recovering from drought appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up. She witnessed how difficult it was for them to work the ranch alone. Carman uses the principles of regenerative soil management on the ranch.

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AgriLife Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Read More → The post Texas peanut production up this season first appeared on AgriLife Today. The post Texas peanut production up this season appeared first on AgriLife Today. Emi Kimura, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension state peanut specialist, Vernon, said producers who were able to keep their crop under.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. But Williams says that the only way he was able to come back to the farm full-time was by partnering with Niman Ranch, a network of more than 600 small and mid-size independent farmers and ranchers across the United States.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Again, these results were achieved through managed grazing of cattle without the purchase and application of any fertilizer or pH amending products.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Season-to-season factors continue to keep Texas pecan production from reaching previous yield benchmarks, said an AgriLife Extension expert.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These findings highlight the economic impact of programs like those within the Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) that support the development of markets for local, regional, and value-added products, and direct to consumer sales. In 2022, 60,332 farms reported more than $14.2

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Cow/calf pairs grazing stockpile. Grazing through snow.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

12, 2023 Although prices remain steady, consumers should pay extra attention to early pecan harvest production, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. AgriLife Extension horticulturist, Uvalde, said pecan production in some regions of the state is looking positive, thanks to water supplies. Larry Stein, Ph.D.,

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Education and training will continue on best practices in light of new deadlines Growers need to be aware of new deadlines on the purchase and use of over-the-top dicamba products in light of a U.S. Read More → The post AgriLife Extension updates producers on utilizing dicamba products appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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