Animal Agriculture Fertilizer Pasture 
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. Which is great…I definitely changed.”
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Pasture-raised”? This certification prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. For meats with this label, synthetic growth hormones are not permitted, and the animals must have been fed a diet that is 100 percent organically grown. Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”?
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Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
He’s especially proud of the fact that because of his self-sustaining system that produces natural fertilizers for his crops, he hasn’t purchased a pound of nitrogen since 1982. What’s more, deforestation is one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.
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. This coincided with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which disrupted fertilizer supply chains.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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