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

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. Tripician projects that Grass Fed Foods will buy 2,500 head of cattle from the ranch in 2024, 4,500 in 2025, and 7,000 in 2026.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The impact that the drought is having on pasture is forcing the culling of cattle and reducing the cattle herd.” Instead, while there is plenty of uncertainty, the most likely causes are fewer cattle burping methane and less fertilizer use. Fewer Cattle Duvall is right about farmers adopting valuable conservation practices.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system. The project will reduce the feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system that prevents the liquids and solids from separating. But their equity goals tend to be fuzzy.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. Poop covered the streets.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. Before him sat a small crowd dotted with cowboy hats.

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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.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another.

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