Cattle Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture 
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
This “leaky system” refers to what is not absorbed by the crops on the field, most dangerously, in this case, fertilizer. “It’s And farmers know they’re going to lose some fertilizer. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. As a consequence, they apply extra as insurance.”
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Civil Eats
MARCH 13, 2024
His curiosity eventually landed Stone a tour of the project: Walz Energy, a joint venture between a cattle-feeding operation and an energy company. Many cancers are linked to nitrates , which are found in drinking water contaminated with manure or nitrogen fertilizer, and advocates are concerned about the link. Stone recalled recently.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.
The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. That meant he didn’t have to spray for anything. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell.
Civil Eats
APRIL 8, 2024
When farmer Joshua Manske heard about the acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant by Koch Industries in December, he saw it as a “microcosm of what’s going on nationally.” That’s what’s going to help drive your fertilizer prices where they should be between supply and demand. billion fertilizer plant to Iowa.
Sustainable Food Trust
AUGUST 6, 2024
The couple have established a thriving low-input vegetable-growing business, supported by a small number of cattle and pigs that fertilise the land and provide the family with home-reared meat. One of these, a Longhorn Limousin cross, who would later come to be known as Bullock 374, was purchased by Robinson.
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