Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. The drop in production is coupled with declining rates of farmers themselves. Poland has lost 13% of its producers since 2010.

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Manure Farming Farming Production 87

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

ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

The challenges associated with mud on livestock farms, particularly cattle and horse farms, need to be addressed because their health affects production goals. 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.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

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). Data collection and projection to compare sustainable farm practices To help estimate values for other variables, including the use of carbon products, panels of farmers are interviewed.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

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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Livestock Acre Poultry Farming 60

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Meet some Midwestern agrarians, some of whom come from conventional farming families, who are using their land to reestablish the connection between trees, animals, and food production. They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. Eric Weninger and Bree Breckel of Embark Maple.

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Acre Farming Farming Pasture 107

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. It’s just cascading the benefits of what this product does.” Biochar can also last for thousands of years in soil, so it’s increasingly being viewed as an effective means of sequestering carbon.

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

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 120

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 107

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. It’s a hopeful sign that our advocacy is moving from the state level to the national stage.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

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 93

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. While ROC certifies a wide spectrum of crops, livestock and fibre, Land to Market only covers animal products: meat, dairy and leather. There are currently 8.3

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 95

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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Food Ranching Grain Crop Rotation 122

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 83

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 129

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. Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. Things started working.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 122

ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Cash Crop 52

Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

By using cover crops, no-till, and manure instead of synthetics. It needs to be able to help remove emotion, needs to be able to help us increase productivity, save time, reduce costs, and it needs to come with a positive user experience.” We talk about our farming on social media a lot.” How do we do it?

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Technology Grain Manure Farming 59

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 69

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

For years, he collaborated on research and development on his first farm, Finca Marisol, and on a nearby farm called Organic Compound in Faribault, Minnesota, to establish a production standard with very specific parameters. acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 97

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

But in recent decades, farmers, ranchers, and preservationists are individually, and in some cases collectively, working together to save rare and endangered animal species by using their products to feed, nourish, educate and clothe people. It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 63

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

To make the best use of space, many farms will dispose of the blocks after a single flush, but each block is capable of several rounds of mushroom production. The vast majority—95 percent—of the mushroom production in the U.S. The bags are sliced open when the mycelium is ready, and out sprouts the first “flush” of mushrooms.

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Compost Farming Farming Logistics 117

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In September, a project dedicated to sustainable beef production in the Southwest created a Virtual Fence Forum for farmers on Facebook; in November, ranchers gathered in Arizona for a workshop on the technology. Alvez is working with a developer in Brazil to bring another product to the U.S.

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Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 113

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virginia Tech will distribute more than $56 million directly to producers to help them enact these climate-smart agricultural practices for crop and animal production. According to Thompson, the credit for the pilot concept belongs to RIPE (Rural Investment to Protect our Environment). billion in funding for 70 climate-smart projects.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 52

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. After James and Jenny were married, she too spent 5 years working on the Vriend’s farm, learning about organic production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. German ministers have also cited the importance of keeping agricultural land in production in order to maintain food security.

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Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Some have joined groups to learn about innovative farming practices such as cover crops, minimum tillage or low-disturbance manure application. It’s not just manure causing (groundwater contamination) problems, it’s also fertilizer. “So At the end of the day we still have to have productivity. We’re not the culprits.

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Manure Farming Farming Distribution 52

Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Can you start by telling me who you are – where are you from, what do you do? And are those things related? I know you live and work in the U.K. these days. Two things stand out for me.

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Crop Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 76

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

Allan Savory through Holistic Management began taking pictures of remarkable recoveries when animals at high density for a short period of time (one day) heavily impacted a spot with hooves and manure. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. The following year it was solid weeds.

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Plowing Pruning Logistics Manure 52

Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

These key ingredients lead to healthier, more productive land. Composting Organic materials including agricultural residue such as corn stalks and rice hulls, weeds, manure, ash from cookstoves and kitchen waste, such as peels and eggshells, join to create rich, life-giving compost. How do family farmers restore soil health?

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, by increasing the presence of deeper rooted perennials and distributing manure, such practices can increase the overall carbon sequestration of a grazing system. Some selections can increase yields and profits per acre. So, farmers may need financial assistance to get over that hump to a more productive system.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure. Healthy, biologically rich soils are the foundation of effective crop and livestock production.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Meanwhile, the cost of farm production expenses are expected to reach a record high in 2023. 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.

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Grain Farming Farming Orchard 110

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2024

JBS USA is one of the largest meat processors in the world, self-reportedly generating 32 billion pounds of product each year. Not only has the company not established an accurate enough estimate of its emissions , it has documented plans to increase production, which will increase emissions. This is known as “ greenwashing.”

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Supply Chain Manure Greenhouse Science 126

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sometimes, though, it’s the best and only option for the land and its long-term productivity. Some acreages are inherently less productive than others.” Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 80

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“I’m concerned about the state of agriculture and food production in this country,” he said, before ticking off a few numbers to make his point. In that same span, the number of farmed acres dropped from almost 900 million acres to 880 million—a loss in area the size of all the New England states, minus Connecticut, Vilsack noted.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 92