Cattle Industrial Agriculture Livestock 
Modern Farmer
APRIL 24, 2024
In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. 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.
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.
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.
The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. Extend living vegetation (no fallow) 5. anywhere in the world.
Sustainable Food Trust
AUGUST 6, 2024
Graves looks at how the country-wide shift from traditional mixed farms with carefully managed infield-outfield systems to mass livestock farming – primarily of sheep – has taken its toll. One of these, a Longhorn Limousin cross, who would later come to be known as Bullock 374, was purchased by Robinson.
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. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
143 
Let's personalize your content