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.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 64

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Industrialized fish, poultry, and meat processing are far removed from consumer consciousness by design—corporations spend millions lobbying lawmakers to resist transparency, and to eschew regulations that hinder maximum profit.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 141

The Equation

MARCH 13, 2025

Over the last two weeks, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has claimed to have the answers to increasing outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu) on US poultry farms and the sticker shock and scarcity many people have encountered when shopping for eggs.

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Science Poultry Food Industrial Agriculture 88

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Department of Agriculture denied Albert Johnson Sr.’s ’s application for a farm loan in the mid-1980s, he went to a private lender who made him list as collateral all 20 of his cattle and his one bull. “I walks among the cattle on his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. Albert Johnson Jr.

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Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 109

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With a government shutdown looming, no agreement in sight on numerous spending bills, and a farm bill process long delayed , a debate around how organic cattle and chickens should be raised may seem like small potatoes. The Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards rule represents the biggest push to make that happen.

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