RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” Then, we planted green manures and cover crops to help build up the topsoil again, which had been pretty depleted over the years.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Imperial Valley grows an estimated two-thirds of the country’s winter vegetables , as well as alfalfa for animal feed—but cattle has remained the No. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. Water quality isn’t just water quality.

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

As federal officials grapple with how to contain the highly contagious strain of avian flu that has infected chickens, turkeys, and dairy cattle on farms across the U.S., Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. It also has spread to the cattle industry, infecting 16 herds to date. million dairy cows.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.” The need for fertilizer is lessened as the livestock service the soil through their manure.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? But they have to be big.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Through this program, they work with cattle ranchers to steward ranchlands, which supports birds’ natural habitats. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. At the start of 2024, Dr.

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