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2024

March 2024 print back issue
March 2024 print back issue
• Filling a meat processing niche • Providing stock water • The need for new value-added dairy markets • Grassfed dairy benchmarks • A sheep success story • The power of epigenetics • A raw milk journey • Thinking deeper
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February 2024 print back issue
February 2024 print back issue
• A grassfed dairy dream comes true • Advisors on feeding minerals in a grass-based system • Grazing needs new ways of thinking • What to do when predators threaten your sheep • Why pasture diversity matters • Beating stray voltage • Dairy selection and epigenetics • Selection has weakened immune systems • What to do when the brood cows leave
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January 2024 print back issue
January 2024 print back issue
• A new wholesale option for direct marketers • Bale grazing for low-cost beef production • Getting better in 2024 • What beef can('t) teach dairy graziers • Farm economics • Sailing a different ship • "Stomp" seeding • Charting a grassfed dairy future • The importance of knowing where you are
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2023

December 2023 print back issue
December 2023 print back issue
• Cutting back, but making more • Thoughts on business expansion • The value of butterfat • $800/ton dry matter forage • Sheep and carbon • Soil organic matter isn't simple • Grassfed's soil nutrient challenges • The judgment
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November 2023 print back issue
November 2023 print back issue
• Making milk without the grain scoop • Climate-proofing grass farms • Dealing with weird weather • Building soils fast • Going without goat fencing • Raising dairy heifers without grain • Adapting, adopting and thriving • More ideas for dealing with a long-term drought
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October 2023 print back issue
October 2023 print back issue
• Grazing, organics and high milk production • Establishing pasture • Farm bill ideas that make sense • A big year for raw milk • A deep dive into grassfed's nutritional advantages • The tapeworm debate • "Bird Friendly" label can bring premiums • Turning trees into fence posts • Dealing with years of dry weather
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August-September 2023 print back issue
August-September 2023 print back issue
• A business built on doing the right thing • The advisors on boosting milk quality • Cellular meat hype • Why grazing tactics must match your farm's abilities • Grassfed organic forum: Dealing with dry conditions • Sheep grazing through a drought • Building a successful raw milk market • Dr. Allen Williams: the consequences of our food choices • Bringing gardening thought to farming
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June-July 2023 print back issue
June-July 2023 print back issue
• Expanding a farmstead meat facility • Small-scale dairy processing/marketing venture looks to increase sales • The advisors describe how they deal with ragged pastures • How a U.S. Supreme Court decision will affect the pork market • Fake meat is failing • Why, when and how to supplement grazing sheep • Humans are causing "natural" occurrences • Managing employees in a growing farm store business • Be careful with calf-sharing in raw milk dairy • Online farmers markets offer new opportunities • It's time to start facing agriculture's waste
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April 2023 print back issue
April 2023 print back issue
• Raw milk sales drive a diversified business • Advisors on tracking pasture availability • Corn and beans and feeding the world • Planning a new grazing dairy • How to implement adaptive dairy grazing • Rapid chilling needed for raw milk sales • The ins and outs of forage insurance • A grassfed dairyman's confession • A life is more important than a mission
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March 2023 print back issue
March 2023 print back issue
• Growing a diversified farming business • Getting cows bred • In defense of a pioneering book • Foodbank opportunities • Long rest periods for dairy pastures • Cleaning udders for raw milk production • No-grain dairy panel discusses feed supplements • In search of grassfed lactation consistency • Optimism about fixing our soils
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February 2023 print back issue
February 2023 print back issue
• Grassfed aiding dairy quality of life • Ins and outs of bale grazing • Advisors on avoiding mud • Ruts, and growing more pasture • Grazing tips for 2023 • Producing low-risk raw milk • Building a barn • Good Meat Project promotes good meat • Hedging bets on an uncertain climate
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January 2023 print back issue
January 2023 print back issue
• A new grassfed meats company seeks to make positive changes • Advisors: how we manage manure • Talking common sense about climate • What is pasture shade worth? • Revealed: the most common thing missing in soils • Putting sheep and silvopasture together • Grassfed forum: filling cows with forage • Be careful in breeding for A2A2 • Grazing's role in starting a new farm • Turning the page on a cattle business
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2022

December 2022 print back issue
December 2022 print back issue
• Quality meat, quality soils • Advisors: how we employ annual crops • Diesel mania • Measuring pasture with satellites • Getting paid for storing carbon • Dispelling silvopasture myths • Paying the piper for bad farming practices • The importance of what we're doing
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November 2022 print back issue
November 2022 print back issue
• Making a go of 100% grassfed dairy • Advisors discuss winter feeding • Hard times for fake meat • Regenerative brush management, part 2 • Fenceless grazing update • Getting no-grain dairy cows into the barn • The Lean dairy farm • Living in a land of talking monkeys
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October 2022 print back issue
October 2022 print back issue
• Tapping a big demand for raw milk • Advisors on how they grow more pasture • The promise and perils of grassfed dairy • Grazing through trying times • Raw milk interest surging • Janet McNally: More mistakes to avoid with livestock guardian dogs • Regenerative brush management • Costs force grassfed marketers to raise prices • Finding the grazing sweet spot between utilization and dry matter intake • Working on a complex soils problem
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August-September 2022 print back issue
August-September 2022 print back issue
• Helmicks put family first with grazing shift • Advisors deal with pesky flies • Putting numbers to grazing's eco benefits • Growing a business with non-traditional leases • How to avoid common livestock guardian dog mistakes (part one) • Compass points to heifer grazing opportunities • Grassfed organic forum: transitioning to stored rations • Farmers know how to make choices
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June-July 2022 print back issue
June-July 2022 print back issue
• Four simple tools for measuring soil health progress • Advisors on raising dairy heifers • High-end wholesale markets have their merits • The ins and outs of solar grazing • Grassfed dairy sales booming • Controlling thistles with sheep • Telling the public about your on-farm store • What works best for protecting planted trees on pasture • Kernza and the role of universities
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May 2022 print back issue
May 2022 print back issue
• Catching up with some grazing and marketing innovators • Advisors on how they deal with seedheads • Regenified aims to take regenerative ag to the mainstream • Virtual fencing gains a U.S. toehold • Lessons learned from a bad custom grazing deal • Grassfed panel discusses raising dairy calves without grain • The sixth principle of soil health
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April 2022 print back issue
April 2022 print back issue
• Focusing on food quality -- and life • Advisors tell how they're dealing with rising costs • Lambing outdoors in cold, wet weather • Putting numbers to soil compaction • Forging a grassfed skincare business • The pros and cons of metro grazing • Taking a deep dive into grassfed health benefits • Recognizing the oligarchs among us
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March 2022 print back issue
March 2022 print back issue
• Maximizing the value of sheep dairy • Advisors justify their supplemental feeding • Dealing with foot rot in sheep • Concentrating on free stuff in a time of inflation • The economics of tree fodder and pods • A solar round bale drying update • Making money with grassfed dairy • Allen Williams: Disrupt your pastures! • People are also important to soil health
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January 2022 print back issue
January 2022 print back issue
• Connecting graziers to consumers • A farm store added to our success • The perfect grazing cow • Bought-and-paid-for science • Working with nature for soil health • Grasses for the 100% grassfed dairy • Sheep mineral needs on pasture • Raw milk market report • Doing things together
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2021

December 2021 print back issue
December 2021 print back issue
• Relaxed intensity works for this beef grazier • How to have a climate-resilient farm • Advisors deal with dry cows • Winter grazing management for sheep • Grazing in an organic rotation • Ideas for finding and keeping good labor • The two raw milks • Encouraging change
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November 2021 print back issue
November 2021 print back issue
• Farming in the midst of humanity • Advisors on how they save labor • Predictions for dairy's future • Educating consumers about raw milk safety • What the states allow for raw milk product sales • Direct grassfed sales report, one year later • Why you should support local agriculture • 100% grassfed dairy advisors discuss winter milk • Stepping away from our speeding economy
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October 2021 print back issue
October 2021 print back issue
• From apprenticeship to dairy farm ownership • A new way to measure pasture • Advisors discuss soil fertility • In defense of measuring and monitoring • Drought reveals management truths • Can regenerative grazing affect the weather? • Silvopasture viewed as long-term investment • Madison Avenue doesn't have the answers; we do
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August-September 2021 print back issue
August-September 2021 print back issue
• Growing a meat processing and marketing cooperative • Heifer Ranch aids new graziers • Advisors stretch their grazing seasons • Study your area's ecological history to understand what's possible • Ins and outs of the new carbon markets • Why you should avoid grazing stems • Ideas for turning a woodlot into silvopasture • Ensuring that cows and soils work together • Low-cost testing to limit raw milk pathogen risks • Agriculture can't keep doing what it's doing
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June-July 2021 print back issue
June-July 2021 print back issue
• Grazing 300+ days a year in northern Pennsylvania • The ins and outs of alternative milking options • A once-a-day milking report • Advisors discuss their drought strategies • Grazier opportunities in a world of fake meat and milk • Getting a profitable start with sheep • Science backs adaptive grazing advantages • Managing for safe raw milk: keeping it clean • The tinder is dry; time to strike the match
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May 2021 print back issue
May 2021 print back issue
• “Stock cropping” effort has lofty goals • Practical genetics: knock out the props • Advisors raise calves to weaning • Focusing on taste to sell grassfed • The economics of solar bale drying • How nurse cows can provide profitable options • Grassfed organic forum: soil fertility programs • Managing for safe raw milk • Linking blowing soil with the food supply
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April 2021 print back issue
April 2021 print back issue
• A group of dairy graziers enlists community support for a marketing venture • Advisors on how they launch their spring grazing • In search of alternative marketing models • Solar round bale drying plans for 2021 • The power of nurse cows • Raw milk’s tremendous possibilities • Get your farm’s succession plan in order • We need to start valuing soil
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March 2021 print back issue
March 2021 print back issue
• Solar round bale dryer shows promise • Why a dairyman decided not to build an on-farm creamery • Advisors: introductions and challenges • The future isn’t always what they say it is • Pricing your grassfed lamb for direct sales • Making sense of meat processing options • Grassfed organic forum: transitioning to spring grazing • Allen Williams: The roots of stewardship • Hopeful for agricultural policy change
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January 2021 print back issue
January 2021 print back issue
• A young dairy grazing couple learns the value of patience • The Advisors describe their financial planning • Why he built a baleage dryer • Study shows variability in grassfed milk samples • Custom grazing proves to be a balancing act • When certification makes sense, and when it doesn’t • The future is looking good for regenerative agriculture • Grassfed organic forum: winter rations • He built an on-farm, USDA-inspected meat processing plant • Removing the old, building the new
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2020

December 2020 print back issue
December 2020 print back issue
• Bringing meat processing issues into focus • Co-grazing goats with cattle and sheep • Addressing the meat processing bottleneck • Transferring knowledge to the next generation • Learning the custom grazing business • Taking a look at value-added certification • Solving meat processing problems
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November 2020 print back issue
November 2020 print back issue
• New neighbors offer markets to a Hudson River Valley dairy • An investor group helped dairy graziers expand • Advisors on how they want research to help them • Balancing income and labor • High on hedgerows • Take all research with a grain of salt • Defending bigger cows • The Bible on land reform
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October 2020 print back issue
October 2020 print back issue
• A leap of faith into dairy processing • Advisors discuss weak links in their operations • Looking back at 20 years of Graze • How to solve a guardian dog problem • Moving from flock to flerd saved labor • Weaning ourselves from commodity agriculture • Grassfed/organic forum: What we look for in a cow • Real solutions are local
Price: $5.00
August-September 2020 print back issue
August-September 2020 print back issue
• A Pennsylvania grazier’s tips for producing great grassfed beef • Advisors balance milk and pasture productivity • How grassfed fits within a lab meat world • Taking the marketing leap • Corn grazing for milking cows • Keeping your guardian dog with the stock • Soil health lessons from the Serengeti • How to succeed with natural parasite control • Questions about climate and markets
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June-July 2020 print back issue
June-July 2020 print back issue
• An Ohio sheep grazier taps a premium lamb market • Finding a mating strategy that works for dairy graziers • Advisors and Dr. Hue Karreman offer pinkeye solutions • No simple, easy or cheap grassfed milk testing on the horizon • A New York grazing couple launches a promising milk bottling business • Ten tips for summer grazing • Grassfed organic forum: making and buying stored forage • Tips for milking three times in two days • The problem of too much customer demand
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May 2020 print back issue
May 2020 print back issue
• Farm marketers see surging sales due to pandemic • Allen Williams: chinks showing in food industry’s armor • Advisors detail how they deal with bloat • Pandemic points to future possibilities for the little guy • Once-daily calf feeding works for these dairy graziers • Janet McNally: managing rank pasture growth with sheep • Personal breeding indexes for dairy graziers • Jim VanDerPol: booming sales and question marks
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April 2020 print back issue
April 2020 print back issue
• Keeping a farm in the family • Advisors explain why they aren’t going to no-grain rations • Grassfed beef market pressured by imports • To succeed, differentiate • Producers like their concrete cow sidewalks • Allen Williams: why we need regenerative agriculture • No-grain dairy forum returns • The dangers of modern dairy breeding methods • What to do while waiting for others to change
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March 2020 print back issue
March 2020 print back issue
• Fall calving and no-grain milk production • Cow comfort affects no-grain success • Advisors deal with pasture weeds • The great grassfed butter gold rush • A good handling system makes sheep more fun • Dr. Allen Williams: Returning the land to what it once was • Understanding customer psychology • Grazing Kernza • Managing swards for decades, not years • We’re all in this together
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February 2020 print back issue
February 2020 print back issue
• Doing what it takes to launch a grass dairy • Advisors tell what’s new for the coming year • Jon Bansen: creating resilience to survive tough times • The need to do something different • Looking for ways to boost forage productivity • Graziers offer more thoughts on once-a-day milking • A map of how the states regulate raw milk distribution • Dr. Allen Williams: soil health requires living organisms • 20 rules to live by in your farming life
Price: $5.00
January 2020 print back issue
January 2020 print back issue
• Ohio and Pennsylvania dairy graziers happy with once-a-day milking • Analyzing the pluses and minuses of once-a-day milking • Advisors on how they boost milk quality • The benefits of diverse monocultures • A pastured-pig producer eyes improvements for 2020 • Dr. Allen Williams: Open your eyes to the impacts of modern agriculture • Sizing paddocks to avoid overgrazing • Jim Van Der Pol: Returning livestock and people to the land
Price: $5.00

2019

December 2019 print back issue
December 2019 print back issue
• Pennsylvania dairy finds grazing better than plowing • Advisors assess a difficult 2019 • Telling the real story about fake meats • Putting grazing at the forefront of value-added • Finishing lambs when the rain won’t stop • 2018 financial reports from organic dairies • Raw butter ban challenged • Mob grazing as a tool • How I got my cattle out of the mud
Price: $5.00
November 2019 print back issue
November 2019 print back issue
• Two New York dairy families see “micro” as the way to go • Advisors: To vaccinate, or not? • The problem with grazing-based research • Grazing as a low-cost alternative • Lambing in the cold rain • Sorting stock all by yourself • The crises of farm people and their land
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October 2019 print back issue
October 2019 print back issue
• An Iowa dairy grazier’s soil health strategies • Advisors discuss soil fertility, part 2 • Are micro-dairies the answer? • Reasons for family farm optimism • Mob vs. rotational grazing in the Northeast • Regenerating soils with cattle and pigs • More unintended consequences from our farming practices • Grass follows the cows • Work as something more than money
Price: $5.00
August-September 2019 print back issue
August-September 2019 print back issue
• Catching up with some of the farmers we’ve featured • Advisors describe their soil fertility strategies • What was with those ultra-low milk urea nitrogen readings? • Unintentional consequences from our conventional farming • Fake meat, big money • Organic fly control ideas • Learning to manage through the mud • A victory for raw butter
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May 2019 print back issue
May 2019 print back issue
• What we’ve learned about robotic milking in a grazing situation • The fallacy of “feeding the world” • Adding legumes to pastures • How to use pigs for improving soils • “100% grassfed” dairy producers describe their challenges • Not all grassfed beef is created equal • Farm programs for the people
Price: $5.00
April 2019 print back issue
April 2019 print back issue
• How good grazing helps make award-winning cheeses • Addressing the farming side of a direct-market business • Getting water to pastures • How to build a regenerative movement • How to make internet marketing work for you • Improving pastures • Soil and people health
Price: $5.00
February 2019 print back issue
February 2019 print back issue
• A locker plant tells a sustainable meat story • Feeding forages to improve butterfat tests • Advisors on what works for improving solids tests • Price alone won’t solve agriculture’s problems • Lack of grazing skills hurting the grassfed dairy sector • Confronting mental health challenges in tough times • “Living barns” can offer effective low-cost shelter • How farmers can define grassfed dairy • Minnesota trial: outdoor pack wintering is cost effective • In these times, we need each other
Price: $5.00
January 2019 print back issue
January 2019 print back issue
• A grass-based dairyman calculates the value of pasture • Maple Hill Creamery’s founder optimistic about the future of grassfed dairy • Advisors on how they’re dealing with tough times • Lessons learned in grazing sheep • How to restore land with pastured pigs • A new day in soil testing • What grassfed dairy needs to do to keep growing • Grassfed organic forum: describing the challenges of making milk • How a sorghum-sudangrass mix saved our summer • Agriculture must change to serve the people
Price: $5.00

2018

December 2018 print back issue
December 2018 print back issue
• Why a cheesemaker values well-managed grazing • Wet weather forces changes in grazing management • Advisors on how they get minerals into their dairy cows • There’s too much rugged individualism in agriculture Tackling cobalt deficiency in pastured sheep • Soil microbes will mine minerals if you give them a chance • Study showed special taste and functional qualities of grassfed milk • What to do if it won’t stop raining?
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November 2018 print back issue
November 2018 print back issue
• Building a grassfed genetic base • Raising replacement dairy heifers • Dealing with robots and such • New group promoting authentic grassfed • Organic dairy study shows who’s making money, and who isn’t • What to do when local marketing isn’t enough • Grassfed organic forum: dealing with wacky weather • The wonders of plant-microbe symbiosis • The dark side of our technological progress
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August-September 2018 print back issue
August-September 2018 print back issue
• Cutting the grain and boosting the fatty acid profile of pastured pork • Advisors manage their fall pastures • Is there a sulfur-butterfat relationship? • NOP is the problem, not Aurora Organic • Buying cows for a new beef cow-calf operation • Gabe Brown and Allen Williams tell of cover crop success stories • Grassfed organic forum: addressing lower milk prices • Managing vegetation in silvopastures • Seeking answers to flooding problems
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June-July 2018 print back issue
June-July 2018 print back issue
• Gabe Brown and Allen Williams: how to avoid cover crop failures • Janet McNally on making cover crops work for sheep • Advisors on how to manage summer grass • Time to start focusing on butter and burgers • Real Organic Project seeks higher grazing standards • New grassfed markets opening in the Northeast • Butterfat key to solving organic’s problems • Marketing milk as beef • Human management, not rote labor
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May 2018 print back issue
May 2018 print back issue
• Manning Hill Farm bottles and sells milk in a tough New England market • Advisors tell how they get their cows bred • Dos and don’ts for selling your own milk • Starting a grazing farm from scratch • Silvopasture: how to get grass growing in a newly harvested timber stand • Ugly things happen when we farm against nature. • Grassfed organic forum: controlling flies • The case against clipping pastures • What’s learned from a long-abandoned farm
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April 2018 print back issue
April 2018 print back issue
• Breitkreutzes do what it takes in building soil health • Advisors discuss their perfect cow • Facing modern dairy realities • Why cows aren’t bad for the environment • Getting a grip on grassfed dairy costs • Allen Williams explains adaptive grazing • Organic producers must tell their story if they are going to survive • A university professor says it’s time to take raw milk seriously • Thoughts on feeding skim milk to pigs
Price: $5.00
March 2018 print back issue
March 2018 print back issue
• Amos Nolt seeks balance and 15,000-lb. herd average without grain • Average no-grain production costs are sky high • Advisors tell how they handle manure • How to stop penalizing springtime milk • Proving the benefits of sward diversity • Janet McNally’s picks for best pasture sheep breeds • How to thin a woodlot with pasture in mind • Organic forum: cow treatment strategies • Gabe Brown: standard soil tests aren’t telling the story • Jim Van Der Pol: Our agriculture needs a new language
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February 2018 print back issue
February 2018 print back issue
• Wisconsin Grass-fed Beef Co-op finds niche in competitive sector • Advisors describe their milking set up • Pasture math for healthy soils and wallets • Improving any kind of soil • McNally on sheep breeds for pasture (part one) • Two takes on markets and the future of grassfed dairy • Farmers need not be alone in their struggles
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