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. At first, it seems simple: “Better” meat is factory-farmed meat. What is the “right” approach to meat?

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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. Amp Americas provides an immediate, measurable and at-scale solution to methane emissions by capturing methane on dairy farms that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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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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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt.

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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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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. This reduction is comparable to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 185,641 gasoline-powered vehicles driven over the course of one year.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Dana Cronin March 3, 2023 Last year’s drought took a severe toll on Zack Rendel’s farm. Back then, everybody had a farm.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

GMP has recently launched a national, geolocating directory of farms and ranches, butcher shops, restaurants and retailers, designed to help consumers find, buy and cook meat that is aligned with their Good Meat® values. The Good Meat® Finder is made possible with support from the ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

While farming may be your first thought when it comes to agricultural jobs, there are actually hundreds of different specialties and niches within the industry, from scientists to economists and more. From working on farms to testing the soil quality in different areas, agriculture offers diverse career opportunities.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Flat, sprawling farm fields fill the screen. She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon. And in addition to funding agricultural education in Colorado, Ben Walton—also a cousin to Lukas and Tom—was one of several investors who helped plant-based foods company NotCo raise $235 million in 2021.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“I think it’s a serious mistake,” said Andre Delattre, the senior vice president and COO for programs at the Public Interest Network , which has advocated for reducing antibiotic use on farms as a matter of public interest for years. the largest volume of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. In the U.S., ” U.S.

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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. American Farm Bureau Federation economists analyzed the USDA inventory report in the latest Market Intel. There were 87.2

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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. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. She knew about the putrid smell of animal waste, she knew it wasn’t safe to drink the local water. The thing that Kendra Kimbirauskas hadn’t expected were the trucks.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. She knew about the putrid smell of animal waste, she knew it wasn’t safe to drink the local water. The thing that Kendra Kimbirauskas hadn’t expected were the trucks.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s a reference to cow’s greenhouse gas emissions, largely produced through belching , though passing gas contributes, too. It’s a figure that a group of researchers at Johns Hopkins have argued is incomplete, and used in order to “downplay the environmental impacts of animal agriculture.” Since 2006, the U.N.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual emissions inventory report showed that emissions from the agricultural sector dropped by nearly 2 percent, falling from 10.6 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions between 2021 and 2022—the sharpest drop of all sectors in 2022.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When record levels of precipitation triggered extreme floods that devastated agricultural communities, ALAS was among the first organizations to respond and help the region’s farm workers and their families. Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) , United States FLOC empowers farm workers to have a voice in decisions that impact them.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. It turns out that Democratic policies weren’t good then either, and our family ended up losing our farm.”

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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. Read More: The FDA Is Still Not Tracking How Farms Use Antibiotics Ads for Livestock Antibiotics Fly in the Face of FDA Rules. PFAS Data Debate.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is the latest installment of our series Faces of the Farm Bill , where in we set out to humanize the real-world impacts of ag policy. The 2018 Farm Bill expired on September 30th, and it doesn’t seem likely that the House and Senate will have drafts of the new bill before the end of the year. And we’re not getting that.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

His idea of farm production is growing flowers in Harvard Yard,” Quayle said of the Massachusetts governor. The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. It would have been easy to dismiss this new food fight as little more than a fashionable twist on routine political posturing.

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