AG Week

Making the turn from pastured pigs to pork at Nettle Valley Farm

Editor's note: This is the second part in a series on Nettle Valley Farm. Click here to read the first part. SPRING GROVE, Minnesota ― Dayna Burtness said pig season at Nettle Valley farm is the ...
inforum

Minnesota farm using sustainable grazing to raise grass-fed cattle and pastured pigs

MENAHGA, Minn. — You’d never guess there was a severe drought at Single Cedar Farm in Menahga, Minnesota, south of Wolf Lake. Robert and Sue Keranen operate a 100% perennial, pasture-based farm. They ...
The Herald-Times

Bloomington's Mkono Farm produces pasture-raised pigs in a humane way

"Come on pig, pig, pig, pig, pigs," Amanda Hand called on a recent Wednesday morning. From across the grassy pasture, snorts and squeals from 21 Kunekune pigs erupted. They ran through the tall grass ...
AG Week

Minnesota couple builds duck egg and pastured pork operation on former dairy farm

FARIBAULT, Minn. ― When Tiffany Tripp moved back to the farm she grew up at in 2011, she didn't realize just over a decade later she'd be running her own successful operation on it. Tripp and her ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune

Bees, pork and poultry — Grandad Farms uses regenerative farming for cleaner, more nutrient-dense meat

Mark and Sophie Ellison are doing the exact opposite of what Earl Lauer Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Richard Nixon, recommended to farmers in the 1970s: “Get big or get out.” Instead, the ...