Acre Construction Manure 
Civil Eats
MARCH 13, 2024
In 2017, Larry Stone heard whispers about construction taking place near his home in Clayton County, Iowa. 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.
Caff
OCTOBER 22, 2024
When they purchased the farm over 30 years ago it was an unproductive almond orchard and since then they have pulled the almonds out and utilized the sloped landscape to construct swales, establish a vineyard, and plant a wide variety of fruit trees which provide shelter while their flock of ducks grazes.
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Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
More (Virtual) Fencing Facilitates Animal Movement Sam’s family has been farming Georges Mills’ 90 acres since the 1750s, and the infrastructure harkens back to a time before farmers used even simple machinery. He also had to construct pathways to move the goats back to the barn for milking. “He
Civil Eats
AUGUST 16, 2023
“Everything that is part of the standard was tried and tested, from breeds to how long you feed them, to the right kind of welfare aspect to consider in the coop construction.” acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. ” But the grand vision doesn’t end there.
Agritecture Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
That would be solar panels that have been installed across 11 acres of the land where Sweetland farms blueberries in Rockport, Maine. We realized because of the way they’re harvested, we didn’t need a lot of clearance for equipment, but we really needed to protect the soils and protect the plants during the construction phase.”
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring. The proposed CAFO would hold 2,400 pigs and produce as much manure equivalent as a town of nearly 7,000 people. Enough,” Lowell said, “is enough.” My dad was a warrior.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Farm numbers decreased in every size category except one: Those operating 5,000 acres or more. Cover crop acres increased by 2.6 million acres to 18 million total acres, but that’s out of just under 300 million acres of cropland. Large farms now control 42 percent of the farmland in the country.
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