Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

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. We need at least 10,000 cows to get enough manure for the amount of methane we want to generate,’” Stone said.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Tomatoes planted into a tilled-in rye, vetch, and red clover green manure, May 21. I put in the tomatoes on May 21, 11 days after tilling in the green manure. This spring, I planted a seed pack from High Mowing Seeds.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. In addition, large concentrated animal feeding operations, which have become more prevalent there in recent years, add to the problem by disposing millions of gallons of nitrogen-rich liquid manure.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Fertilizers and animal manures are a special case, because whether the ultimate result is net positive or negative depends on how they are managed. Overapplying fertilizers or manure (especially high N fertilizers or anaerobic pit manure) can create nutrient imbalances, increase salt loads, and disrupt soil function.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Industry groups should make it clear to members that cover crops and more in-season application must become part of all manure management plans and programs. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Adjust Fertilizer for Area Multiply the fertilizer requirement per acre by the size of your field to determine the total amount of fertilizer needed. If you are using organic fertilizers such as manure it can have a variable nutrient content which might change over time. Just match it the best you can.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Slurry pits must be emptied to make room for the never-ending stream of manure. Manure is often not a top priority for most dairies and handling may have to wait until seasonal fieldwork is completed. This causes the soil microbiology to go dormant.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52

Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

“Niman Ranch is a perfect fit for our kids, because they’re not kids that grew up on a family farm…They don’t have US$3 million to go buy a couple of hundred acres,” says Beermann. “To To me, Niman Ranch is a way they can afford five acres of property and they could actually raise livestock, they could have a small business.”

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Not to mention that no livestock owner wants to see their animals covered in mud and manure. Mud and manure harbor harmful bacteria and other pathogens. We can’t escape the season of mud, but there are some management strategies that can help minimize the number of impacted acres.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) To date, Johnson has planted 6,000 trees on 20 acres of their fields, with plans to double the number of trees. Johnson felt called back to the land in 2010 after living in California for 18 years.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 125

DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres). The final result: carbon dioxide equivalent The result for each farming practice and the overall field or farm, is a calculation called the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e kg/acre).

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many farmers are able to spread manure on their cropland over many years. However, comparable land in the area that has had no manure ever applied to it and has no excess fertility can be purchased for $6,500. In order to properly document this deduction, you should get an agronomist to workup the value of the excess fertility.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Agribusiness Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Many farmers, especially those in the Midwest that apply animal manure, are able to deduct excess fertility when they purchase land that they are currently not farming. This deduction could easily approach $1,000 per acre. Here is an example: Jim buys land in Minnesota for $12,000 per acre in 2022.

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Fertilizer Acre Manure Farming 52

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. Interestingly, the huge machine trade show hall featured only one chipper and not a single manure spreader. And goop to put in confinement hog facilities to make the lagoon manure less toxic. It’s been a fascinating and invigorating day.

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Manure Mechanics Ecology Tractor 73

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 141

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

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. At night, the goats sleep in a barn built in the mid-1800s from large blocks of local stone and weathered wood.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. of carbon per acre annually. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop. Now let’s focus on how that carbon moves though agroecosystems at the field scale.

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

As a result of the ROC standards, livestock now graze the cover crops in the almond orchards, fertilizing the soil with their manure and providing space for beneficial insects. million acres of organic certified land in the US. There are currently 8.3 Newton highlights that exclusivity isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. On the farm, they minimize and reuse waste streams by recycling animals and manure that act as food for black soldier fly grubs.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 97

ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. “That’s when I started actually using biochar on my crops, doing workshops, and teaching farmers how to make it.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

These factory farms not only force animals to live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, they also produce copious amounts of manure, which can cause water pollution and other health hazards. In a country dominated by large-scale farming operations comprising thousands of acres of monocrops, Sonoma County is an outlier. The average U.S.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

“The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program. .

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve visited 10 farms, most of them several hundred sheep on more than 1,000 acres. One was beef cattle on about 4,000 acres. Nobody puts down carbon for bedding, so all the sheep are on solid manure packs that stink and are filthy. I should be home Monday afternoon. Here are the protocols. Lambs do not nurse their mothers.

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Grain Manure Pasture Acre 52

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. And we could take 1,000 acres, 10,000 acres, or 1 million acres, and we’d know exactly what to do. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts. Most farmers raise more than one flock.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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Farming Farming Manure Ruralism 52

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 29, 2022

This was for 120 acres. We came in and spent $15,000 building a pond and putting in water line to service 400 acres (more than triple the NRCS project) and have run as many as 720 head of cattle over there at one time for a decade without failure. I like all portable water systems; NRCS hates them.

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Acre Manure Cattle Farming 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my scale, and we’re not tiny,” he said.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Trina Moyles Jenny Berkenbosch and James Vriend manage Sundog Organic Farm , a 14-acre certified organic vegetable and herb operation, located north of Edmonton in Sturgeon County. It was a really casual, fun, 2-acre project,” recalls Jenny. ‘We James’s parents were retired from their business, so their land was available to farm.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

Grown in a combination of manure and straw, they produce a distinct kind of spent substrate that is also used as compost, though it is a very different material from specialty mushroom substrate, with fewer applications. In the U.S.,

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre. Research Presentation Cavadini then presented data collected from a statewide on-farm bale grazing project. As part of the project, forage quality samples were collected from hay, and nutrient values were calculated.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said. It takes about 1000 gallons of urine just to fertilize one acre of hay. We said we use cow manure and stuff and this [urine] doesnt sound like it would be an issue. For Janiszyn, one drawback of using urine is that it is highly diluted.

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