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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

Pasture Management and Sustainability Practices : Implement rotational grazing and manage pasture quality to optimize forage availability and promote soil health. Ensure footwear and clothing are clean and free of particles that may infect livestock, before entering the farm, or provide disposable boots and covers for apparel.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

Such had been the overall trend since the 1990s, when Walmart began rapidly opening what it dubbed “Supercenters,” and applied the same mantra that fueled its original success in electronics, apparel, and home goods to groceries: the lowest prices, all the time.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. After a job running sales for a hemp apparel company, he lit out for Peru, where he launched Eco Ola, an export business in Amazonian superfoods, with the goal of helping local communities develop sustainable economies from their native forests.