UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While the motivation to reduce the amount of methane released into the Earth’s atmosphere may be admirable, the millions upon millions of dollars spent chasing the red herring of livestock rumen microbial methane emissions is not. The post A Real Solution to the Cattle Industry’s ‘Methane Problem’ appeared first on Understanding Ag.

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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. We need at least 10,000 cows to get enough manure for the amount of methane we want to generate,’” Stone said. Each year, animals in CAFOs produce twice as much waste as the entire U.S.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Selecting the right type of hay for your livestock is a critical decision that can significantly impact their health, growth, and productivity. We've added information about different types of hay, the nutrients in hay, and the needs of different types of livestock. There isn't a one-size-fits-all when growing hay.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The increased diversity also provides more nutrient-dense pastures for our cattle to graze on. Instead, lets talk about cattle and making money. Over-winter feed costs are often the largest expense for livestock owners, and in many parts of the country where hay is more expensive, it can rob the profit out of cow/calf pair production.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MAY 10, 2023

Here in our beautiful state of Colorado, livestock is a huge necessity for our local communities. Managing and owning livestock is a significant responsibility, and it is something that comes with a wide range of limitations, regulations, and policies that are mandatory.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Currently, CAFOs in Wisconsin must obtain a Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit before disposing of manure and waste. To be classified as a CAFO, an operation must have at least 1,000 animal units (700 milking cows, 1,000 beef cattle, 2,500 pigs, 55,000 turkeys, 82,000 laying hens, or 125,000 chickens). “I

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A few days after moving in, concerned neighbors informed her that Ledgeview Farms, a large dairy farm behind her home, was planning to expand, which included building a manure pit to store millions of gallons of waste next to the subdivision. Over the next several years, Porter began noticing manure runoff in the creek her kids would play in.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 19, 2025

A 20-year study on diversified cropping systems fertilized with livestock manure, led by Iowa State University researchers, showed environmental benefits but not the expected carbon sequestration. The study results were published in Nature Sustainability.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 16, 2023

How to Prevent and Treat Horse Fly Bites on Livestock Did you know that horse flies can cause serious injury to your livestock? If your livestock is already suffering from these pests, there are treatments available that can help alleviate their pain and discomfort while also preventing further damage!

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. Nofence’s collars cost $299 each for cattle and $199 for goats or sheep, and come with a five-year lifespan.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More than 70 percent of North America’s biodiversity-rich prairies have been replaced with wheat, soy, corn, alfalfa and canola, primarily used as cattle feed. Leave livestock and bison to graze marginal soils and native grasslands and upcycle food waste and byproducts into animal feed.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards. In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Compost and organic amendments : Regenerative farmers prioritize the use of organic matter, such as compost, manure, and other natural amendments, to enhance soil fertility and microbial activity. Integrating livestock : Some regenerative systems incorporate livestock, such as cattle or sheep, into crop rotations.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Livestock Publications Council (LPC) annually inducts one of its distinguished leaders into the Hall of Fame. Established in 2009, the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame honors the exceptional visionary men and women who have made lasting contributions to the cattle-feeding industry. 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With bale grazing, bales are set in a grid pattern before winter, and cattle are given access to a few bales at a time. For the past six years, winter management meant feeding cattle in a sacrifice area. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons. California has sector-specific targets for emissions reductions, and cuts at dairy farms are attributed to the livestock sector.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Goats are browsers—they’ll eat grass and weeds like cattle and sheep if they have to, but their preference is to eat brush. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Grazing livestock are a key focus of the SFT’s work and the subject of our next report, due out later this year. In the UK, cattle and sheep dominate, with traditional regionally adapted breeds having been crucial to our health and food security for millennia. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Silvopasture, or mixed trees and livestock, is one form of agroforestry.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

PSB Industries , a specialist in the design and fabrication of systems for dehydrating and purifying gasses and liquids, highlights the reliability and efficiency of its Deoxo and TSA Dryer Package for the livestock sector. iGENDEC is an advanced software tool designed to help cattle producers understand and improve their herd’s genetics.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. reduce tillage), increase plant diversity, keep roots in the soil as long as possible, and integrate livestock.

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CalCAN

MARCH 27, 2023

Farmers and ranchers in our network have lost crops, livestock, and structures, been evacuated (some multiple times), and had their operations disrupted by smoke, public safety power shutoffs, or loss of insurance. These high-intensity, uncontrolled wildfires are both exacerbated by and contribute to climate change. Learn more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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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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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hawks, eagles, and falcons : These birds are susceptible to the H5N1 strain Owls, crows, and vultures : These birds are also susceptible to the H5N1 strain Domestic poultry; chickens, quail, and turkeys Pet Birds that have outdoor access Other mammals are also susceptible to this like cats, dogs, cattle, and even humans.

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

As federal officials grapple with how to contain the highly contagious strain of avian flu that has infected chickens, turkeys, and dairy cattle on farms across the U.S., It also has spread to the cattle industry, infecting 16 herds to date. It’s the first time an avian flu virus has been detected in cattle. million dairy cows.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The number of cattle, the biggest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions—both from burps and manure storage—actually went down by 5.6 But the number of cattle in large dairies and feedlots—and the overall number of larger dairies and feedlots—went up. million over the 2017 census. The EWG analysis found similar trends.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Areas of grasses, forbs, shrubs and dispersed trees are used for grazing cattle and other ruminants. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.” Grassland foliage relies on the grazing and trampling of livestock to keep the soil aerated and the plant community growing.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Farmers and gardeners often use livestock manure from poultry, cattle or horses. As snow melted, piles of manure reappeared and infiltrated waterways. “Since it’s from dog manure, it is not recommended for vegetables, but there are a lot of other uses for it,” says ranger Mitch Flanigan.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

From sheep to blueberries BlueWave director of sustainable solar development Jesse Robertson-Dubois grew up on a homestead with a vegetable garden and livestock, and launched a career as a commercial farmer and conservationist. But soon, “the intersection of land use and solar piqued my interest,” he said. megawatt array was feasible.

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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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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Poop covered the streets.

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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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