Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What unfolded in the years after their first meeting was an initiative called The Transfarmation Project , which today works to help former contract farmers transition away from this system and into sustainable agriculture. Historically, animal activists and contract farmers have been on opposite sides of the factory farming issue.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. What is the “right” approach to meat? At first, it seems simple: “Better” meat is factory-farmed meat.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. Environmental benefits will be profound with net greenhouse gas emissions from the sector falling by 45 percent by 2030. They don’t get fired.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Raised on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin, Ditzenberger has been involved in agriculture most of his life and has held various positions in agricultural sales and marketing throughout his career. Lombardo is an accomplished agricultural leader with more than 20 years of experience.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations. Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 16, 2024

On an ultra-small scale, a sincere commitment to regenerative agriculture is compatible with reducing many of the harms of industrial animal agriculture, including harms to the climate. full_link Read More New York is suing one of the country’s largest meat processors for greenwashing.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion pounds of food waste of which more than 75% was recycled into organic, nutrient-rich animal feed or made into customized formulations to address specific dietary concerns of cattle. billion pounds of food waste into animal feed resulted in an approximate avoidance of 780,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) in 2023. .

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas – 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in driving global warming over a 20-year time span. For 12 years, we have worked alongside farmers to make a real, quantifiable impact on greenhouse gas emissions while improving the air quality in rural communities,” said Grant Zimmerman, CEO of Amp Americas.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

The role of policy One of the biggest obstacles that Kara Shannon, director of farm animal welfare policy for the ASPCA, has observed for farmers wanting to transition out of industrial animal agriculture and into specialty crops or something more humane is the lack of funding and resources available to overcome financial hurdles.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Producers will work with a technical assistance provider to establish operational plans, implement recommended changes and organize farm data necessary to estimate emissions using the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator developed by Michigan State University and ALB.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

The Great Plains is currently facing exceptional drought, and agricultural hub states like Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are dealing with long-term consequences. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase production and develop the sorghum marketplace. Animal agriculture contributes a significant amount of global greenhouse gases.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

That included a commitment to reduce the use of antibiotics used in the food and agriculture system by 30 percent by 2030. After months of negotiations and edits to the proposal, these ambitious—and likely effective—commitments have been replaced with a toothless target: to “strive to meaningfully reduce” antibiotic use in agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

While contract farming, or “factory farming,” has been exposed in the media for being exploitative of animals, the farmers who sign contracts with companies like Tyson, Perdue or other big players in animal agriculture also find themselves backed into a financial corner. This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2024

A few years ago, JBS announced that it would “achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.” JBS USA’s parent company reported greenhouse gas emissions of 71 million tons in 2021. Concentrated animal agriculture is high in emissions because of things such as improper manure management and land used to grow feed.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

These digesters are becoming more common, particularly at larger dairy operations housing thousands of cows, called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). This is partially because they have been included as a key ingredient in the Biden administration’s pledge to reduce methane emissions in animal agriculture.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To ensure the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) continues to meet its mission, the board of directors adopted the NIAA 2024 – 2026 Strategic Plan during their January 24, 2024, meeting.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, curbing emissions from agriculture and the broader food system has become a bigger piece of the conference’s programming. And this year, the most influential group in American agriculture has been pointing to big strides made. In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To address this threat, the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) are funding a $1 million Japanese Encephalitis Virus Research Program to enhance U.S. While this virus has not been detected in the U.S., it is recently spreading, increasing the potential it could reach the U.S.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 6, 2024

New research sheds light on the scope of the livestock industry’s influence over prominent agricultural research centers at two public universities. It’s a reference to cow’s greenhouse gas emissions, largely produced through belching , though passing gas contributes, too.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. NSAC will reserve final assessment until the full legislative text becomes available.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. No matter the perception of reality, animal agriculture is still the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions behind fossil fuels and is the number one cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

While the industry often associates itself with the picturesque image of American farming, the fact is that industrial agriculture has created the immense consolidation of US farms, driving farmers all over the country out of business. And yet, this technology is part of both state and federal plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

While the industry often associates itself with the picturesque image of American farming, the fact is that industrial agriculture has created the immense consolidation of US farms, driving farmers all over the country out of business. And yet, this technology is part of both state and federal plans to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been working to reign in the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture—which contributes to the problem—for more than a decade. EPA initiated the tests after an environmental toxicologist found alarming levels of multiple PFAS in six out of 10 agricultural pesticides he tested.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Farm Sanctuary has recently expanded to advocate for broader changes across the food system, beyond ending animal agriculture. There has always been a recognition that while the beings that we center are farm animals, the interrelated issues caused by factory farming hurt all of us—animals, people, and the planet.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And the meat industry alone, by some estimates, accounts for nearly 60 percent of all greenhouse gasses produced by the food system. Climate change, though, is where the game is really changing for meat. And on it went.

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