Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American food system relies heavily on industrial animal agriculture. Thousands or tens of thousands of animals packed into one place have been justified by the industry as a way to feed more people. But there are undeniable costs associated with this type of food production.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Murphy Family Farms (later bought by Smithfield Foods) helped out with the loan needed to get started. The Faaborgs farmed hogs for 30 years. When Tanner Faaborg came back to the farm as an adult, the family began thinking about ways to transition out of hog farming. “We It sounded like a pretty good deal,” says Faaborg.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re 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 To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

When his agriculture professors taught about conventional hog production, he would ask questions like, “What about letting these animals get outside a little bit?” These big universities, the agricultural departments are pretty much paid off by Big Agriculture,” says Roberts. According to the U.S.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. When they first started, many in their family and community doubted that they could successfully farm this way. “My

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NASDA

JANUARY 31, 2024

She helped plan and execute the policy team’s first-ever “NASDA 101” briefing for Capitol Hill staff, compiled and facilitated a nationwide survey on African Swine Fever preparedness, and continues her engagement with lawmakers to discuss farm bill priorities.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For more than 30 years, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has offered the annual Redbook to help cattle producers effectively and efficiently record their daily production efforts. milk production each week. The pocket-sized booklet simplifies recordkeeping, which can enhance profitability and reduce stress levels.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kody McCleary wants more consumers to understand the work that goes into sustainable and humane pig farming. Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. The quality of the animal is just better.”

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The Farmers Daughter USA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It all has to do with the “No Antibiotics Ever” label you maybe saw on your chicken products over the last decade. In the mid-2010s, conversations about antibiotic use in animal agriculture was coming under greater scrutiny. Sanderson Farms was a notable exception.) Perdue made a similar commitment.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV. You can read Food Tank’s coverage of the roadmap, which was announced last year, here. FoodDive : Food system transformation on the menu at COP28 III. As for how and when?

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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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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Steven and Alaina Imhoff knew they wanted to expand their hog farming at Triple Creek Farms in southeast Iowa. Niman farmers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. The quality of meat, you can taste it…you can tell when an animal has been raised on bedding and dirt versus concrete.”

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Can I find additional information about the product separate from the words used on the label?

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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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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Dairy farmers across 15 states can apply for considerable financial support to adopt climate-smart manure management practices through a new initiative aimed at enhancing soil health, increasing herd productivity and minimizing environmental impact. poultry industrys on-farm antibiotic use. Updated research, supported by the U.S.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

farms as of Jan. Department of Agricultures National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The United States Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the resumption of cattle and bison imports from Mexico. There were 86.7 million head of cattle and calves on U.S.

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

farms and ranches. The bipartisan bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to confirm a regulatory path for non-nutritive animal food ingredients that act in the animal’s gut to provide production benefits, address human food safety concerns and affect the byproducts from digestion from the animal.

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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. Not only that, but animal husbandry also has significant cultural value and eating animal products can have health benefits.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By his senior year, Williams was trying to figure out how to return home and take over the family farm. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. I was just working [on the farm] all the time and loved it.

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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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ATTRA

JULY 29, 2024

An international team of scientists concluded that when social, economic, and political factors are considered, intensive animal agriculture could contribute to the risk of infectious diseases developing.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA clearly delineates the need to focus on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies as well as sustainable nutrition science , an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of food production, environment and climate, and human health. The environment suffers as soil is exhausted and water is polluted. New paradigm?

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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 In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S. agriculture and [therefore] less emissions.

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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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. Despite his father’s advice, Wahl started farming after graduation and now raises about 1,000 sheep with his family in western Oregon. “I

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

. ● Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5% of on-farm costs, with animal feed closely following at 15.5%. Denali’s depackaging process enabled farmers to receive fertilizer and/or animal feed at no cost, saving them a minimum of $100 per acre.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Over the past four decades, beef production has been the main driver of deforestation and conversion of habitat in South America. Leather is a byproduct of beef production, but it can play an oversized role in eliminating deforestation and conversion of the continent’s ecosystems. Traceability and transparency are core to this vision.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

dairy products domestically and internationally and supported the industrys longstanding commitment to sustainability on behalf of U.S. food and agricultural products. Alltech Wisconsin is pleased to present the 2024 Most Valuable Employee (MVE) Award to Hector Lobato of Schilling Farms in Darlington, Wisconsin.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The award annually honors a person from outside the livestock communications field for actions that produce a positive change in livestock production and marketing. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2023.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

million Americans do not have broadband access and USDA reports only 51 percent of farms can connect to the Internet through a broadband connection.1 American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supply chain.

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Food and agriculture remain a pillar of the U.S. government’s extraordinary leadership and commitment to agricultural research and development since 1862, our agriculture sector is the most productive in the world, providing Americans with safe, affordable, and abundant food. Thanks to the U.S.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

NASDA is concerned that this change could leave employers with an increase in actions on their H-2 petitions, potentially resulting in higher costs and lower productivity. The nature of agricultural employment often includes narrow windows for things like fresh produce harvest or other labor-intensive work.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

Now in its 25th year, Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States who all adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices. In exchange, the farmers receive a guaranteed market for their products and an invaluable support system. Army veteran.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed regulation that would revise wastewater discharge standards for facilities that process meat and poultry products. The board of the National Institute of Animal Agriculture recently approved forming a new Council: the Animal Disease Issues & Emergency Management Council.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

DMI) New Product Competition for college students is accepting entries for 2024. The competition seeks innovative dairy product concepts and is open to undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S. More information is available at www.usdairy.com/research-resources/new-product-competition. The Dairy Management Inc.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The fourth class participating in the National Institute for Animal Agricultures (NIAA) Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders has been selected and will convene for their first session in Washington, D.C. Alltech is a global leader in animal nutrition, backed by 45 years of scientific research.

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