Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 104

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 81

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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