Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Farm income, yields and food availability have all increased tremendously since the inception of the Farm Bill in 1933, in line with its original intent. But a closer look at our food system reveals many challenges. The efforts to truly create sustainable food systems do not go far enough.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To help you find a winemaker, distiller, or brewer to support, Food Tank is highlighting 20 producers and programs bringing sustainable sips to glasses around the world. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of that.” In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Farmers were hurting, consumers were worried, and Maine’s food system looked to be in crisis. Others have been able to relieve the problem through water treatments and removal of affected hay and manure. Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

It’s also one with many potential uses ; it can be used as compost, as a means of decontaminating soil, as biofuel, and simply for growing more mushrooms. The potential of the material may best be realized in connecting mushroom production with other food- and soil-based initiatives, and in supporting more circular, regional economies.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 4 million readers a year 200k social reach Yale Environment 360 A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Better manure management is among the climate-smart practices the USDA is funding in the partnerships. It also reduces runoff and evaporation.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 19, 2024

Large livestock facilities generate more liquid manure, which emits methane, a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas. In 2020, Walz, along with three Midwestern Republican governors, appealed to the Trump administration to reject the oil industry’s attempts to exempt small refineries from being required to blend biofuels into their mixes.

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