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USDA to Begin Issuing $1.75 Billion to Agricultural Producers Through Critical Emergency Relief Programs

ProAg

Ranchers who lost grazing acres due to drought and wildfire and received assistance through ELRP Phase One will soon receive an additional payment through ELRP Phase Two. In April 2022, FSA staff processed more than 100,000 payments through ELRP Phase One and paid eligible ranchers more than $600 million for 2021 grazing losses.

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Lawsuit Aims to Loosen CAFO Waste Restrictions in Wisconsin. Even Farmers Are Alarmed.

Daily Yonder

Lots of Animals, Little Space CAFOs, like the name concentrated animal feeding operation suggests, are livestock operations where a large number of animals are kept indoors, raised in confinement, and slaughtered. This allows the manure to serve as fertilizer for the places that need it, Raff explained.

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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. This requires a change in mindset and understanding that you are looking for the maximum net profit, not necessarily maximizing the number of animal units during the growing season.

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The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

Civil Eats

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. The [manager] said, ‘This is not a feedlot; it’s a renewable energy project.

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