Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factory farms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size. The number of cattle, the biggest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions—both from burps and manure storage—actually went down by 5.6

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

But thirsty crops and cattle have taken their toll: Amid California’s cycles of drought, excessive groundwater pumping has left Central Valley basins the most overdrafted in the state. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.

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CalCAN

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2020, wildfires became the second highest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the state, second only to the transportation sector. The East Bay Regional Parks District utilizes prescribed grazing by cattle, sheep, and goats to reduce fire fuels and maintain or improve habitat conditions for native plants and wildlife. Learn more here.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. 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.”

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. 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.

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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.” percent of total greenhouse gas emissions between 2021 and 2022—the sharpest drop of all sectors in 2022. Fewer Cattle Duvall is right about farmers adopting valuable conservation practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The ranch is now co-owned by each of their five children who manage different aspects of the farm, including cheesemaking, growing sugar snap peas – “the best in Colorado” – raising cattle, chickens and running the ranch’s restaurant.

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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 Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system.

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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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