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Marketing that Matters: Audubon Seal Connects Ranchers and Consumers

Food Tank

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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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

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Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

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Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Why California Wineries are Embracing Fire to Avoid Disaster

Modern Farmer

They’re well pruned. Most of the 340-acre ranch is undeveloped, and Morison purposely kept it that way for 25 years. “My After his family’s ranch burned in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, he became much more active in caring for their land. Last winter, he estimates he burned 225 of them across the ranch.

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Horrible Holly: A Festive Plant Runs Amok

Modern Farmer

Now, “out of place” included forests, wetlands and wild prairies, as well as farms and ranches. Brown leaves sagged from the tips of branches, and most of the berries had dried up like prunes, black and wrinkled. It wasn’t until the 1990s that agencies caught up with increasing scientific interest in ecological invasions.

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Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs

Modern Farmer

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the Wests primary ecosystem engineers. Bison like to wallow in the dirt exposed by prairie dogs, and graze on the nutritious grass and plants that resprout after a prairie dog pruning.

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Coalition letter supporting Luke Lindberg’s nomination to be the next Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs

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California Date Commission California Fresh Fruit Association California Prune Board Cayuga Milk Ingredients CHS Inc. Growth Energy Hadrick Ranch Hilmar Cheese Company HP Hood LLC Idaho Dairymen’s Association, Inc. Blue Diamond Growers California Citrus Mutual California Dairies, Inc.