Modern Farmer
APRIL 24, 2024
As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. Cattle are often fed a corn or soy diet instead of grass, which can lead to illness.
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. Although the state is known for hog production— hogs outnumber people 7:1 —the number of cattle in Iowa feedlots is increasing, too. Stone recalled recently. population.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
By one estimate, the industry benefits from $7 trillion in subsidies annually, making inputs like synthetic fertilizer and pesticides artificially cheap and therefore possible to use on a vast scale. And methane emissions from ruminants, like cattle, are another significant source of climate impacts.
The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell. The trees shaded and protected the chickens. anywhere in the world. It thrives in biological diversity and complex relationship.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
Nancy Utesch and her husband, Lynn, live on 150 acres of land in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, where they rotationally graze beef cattle. The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. In 2004, a family nearby became very ill from E. coli poisoning in their water. “I
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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