Niman Ranch – 740 Farmers Working in Unison

Touch the Soil News #1573 (Feature photo – Pastured Pigs – CCA SA 4.0 International, Walter Jeffries) It is hard for sustainable animal farmers to compete with industrial meat. Over the years, Niman Ranch has worked to co-ordinate the distribution of hundreds of growers under one distribution and marketing banner – Niman Ranch. So, if…

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Does Your Sustainable Farm Need Pigs?

Touch the Soil News #1552 (Feature photo – Pasture Raised Pigs – By Jeff Vanuga / Photo courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24827060) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how pigs can play an important role not only in meat production, but in vegetable and other crop production. You can see…

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