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. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. And these think tanks continue to crank out their nonsense.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) finds that if farmers and ranchers continue to produce the same amount of livestock, but employ tactics used by the lowest 10 percent of greenhouse gas emitters, overall emissions from the industry could decrease by 30 percent. Pollard said Cream Co.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

million (among other grants) to help farmers change their practices and launch a “regenerative foodscape” and is involved in a $80 million USDA-supported project on climate-smart rice production. If you don’t say yes, they pull your product.” If you don’t say yes, they pull your product.” Then, they’ll lower it every few years.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Also in attendance are policymakers, NGOs, lobbyists, scientists and more. degrees Celsius.

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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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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

After eight months of learning the ropes, they now make and sell value-added products, such as tinctures and coffee blends. Finding the market for a new product was one of the most difficult parts, says Faaborg. Thanks in part to Dale’s experience in construction, the Boles were able to adapt their poultry barns into greenhouses.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

dairy herd could limit any meaningful growth in domestic milk production over the next few years. dairy products remains murky due to export market uncertainties, any potential growth opportunities may be stymied by an inability to expand U.S. milk production. milk production. While the global demand outlook for U.S.

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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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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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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

They work on farms, in fields and greenhouses, around livestock, with plants, soil and water. They can be found all over the world doing different things: some fish in rivers; some grow coffee beans or cocoa trees; some work on farms with animals like cattle or sheep.

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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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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase production and develop the sorghum marketplace. is primarily turned into ethanol fuel and livestock feed—two of the most fossil-fuel intensive agricultural products. “If While she supports the expansion of sorghum production in the U.S., However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

the research is part of the Association’s comprehensive research program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. Made possible by an endowing Foundation gift from Georges Inc., The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) congratulated Gov.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Smithfield Foods has named Kraig Westerbeek as president of its hog production operations effective Feb. Bovaer reduces methane emissions by 30 percent on average for dairy cows, and thereby lowers the overall greenhouse gas footprint per liter of milk by 10-15 percent. Nearly 500 pet food industry professionals came together Jan.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve known for a very long time that the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is really problematic for public health. the largest volume of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. Also, the preventive dosing of animals with medically important drugs—that is, drugs for treating humans— is still routine.

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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

MARCH 21, 2025

Through the 32-million-euro facility alongside further investments in organization and the grower network, Bayer triples its existing capacity for high-quality maize seed production in the country in 2025. wheat production. Kenny Kuhn has joined Stratovation Group as Vice President of Insights.

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Agwired

JANUARY 13, 2025

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host animal agriculture leaders will discuss the current state of research and treatment for lameness across food animal species before the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia, January 27-28. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable. Food production and consumption that ensures everyone has access to healthy, affordable, culturally relevant, and delicious food. And they are calling on everyone to take part in their work!

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The initiative aims to triple the productivity of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa in 20 years by promoting green manure and cover crops that restore soil health, combat drought, and enhance farm resilience. They also foster unity among farmers and collaborate with partners to enhance production and marketing opportunities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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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. agriculture and [therefore] less emissions.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. full_link Learn More Watch Right to Harm, a documentary about how industrial animal production affects communities living nearby. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. full_link Learn More Watch Right to Harm, a documentary about how industrial animal production affects communities living nearby. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Conspiracy Theories and an Ongoing Culture War Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have shown that livestock accounts for anywhere between 11 and 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from land use and cow burps. There are a slew of challenges to scaling production in a way that makes it economically viable.

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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.

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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. Instead, Brownell argued, we should treat obesity as a product of the physical and economic environments in which we live. The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

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