UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Over-winter feed costs are often the largest expense for livestock owners, and in many parts of the country where hay is more expensive, it can rob the profit out of cow/calf pair production. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. How many animals are they overwintering?

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

billion in emergency relief payments to eligible farmers and livestock producers. Emergency Livestock Relief Program This week, FSA will issue more than $581 million in 2021 and 2022 drought and wildfire emergency relief to eligible ranchers. FSA is closing out the Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) for losses suffered in 2021.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Lots of Animals, Little Space CAFOs, like the name concentrated animal feeding operation suggests, are livestock operations where a large number of animals are kept indoors, raised in confinement, and slaughtered.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“Demand for dairy products overall, both United States domestic and export demand, continues to grow,” said Charles Nicholson, an agriculture and economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Livestock waste runoff has been linked to various public health problems such as cancers , infant deaths and miscarriages.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. The [manager] said, ‘This is not a feedlot; it’s a renewable energy project.

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