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Why pastured poultry is good fit for grassland farm

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly At Paddock Farm in Warwickshire, 300 Hy-line and Dekalb hens follow beef cattle around the grazing rotation, producing an average of 240 eggs a day.

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Do You Need Starter Fertilizer with Organic Nitrogen?

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. Ammonium nitrogen can be lost quickly through ammonia volatilization if manure or compost is not incorporated into the soil shortly after application. Swine Manure : Typically has 20-35% of total nitrogen as ammonium nitrogen.

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Bird Flu May Be Driven By This Overlooked Factor

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., poultry production. It also has spread to the cattle industry, infecting 16 herds to date. have been farmworkers in the dairy and poultry industries.

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Animal Ag News 11/4

Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This system provides an unparalleled solution for removing moisture and oxygen from gas streams, addressing critical purification challenges in livestock applications such as biogas production from manure digesters. iGENDEC is an advanced software tool designed to help cattle producers understand and improve their herd’s genetics.

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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Bio Security Practices for Manure Biosecurity practices for manure management are essential in safeguarding animal health and preventing the spread of disease on farms. Manure can serve as a reservoir for pathogens, making its handling and disposal a critical aspect of employing biosecurity protocols.

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How Using Endangered Animals Might Actually Save Them

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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Closing the Loop on Poop

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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The Anatomy of a Pasture Walk

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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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

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. Grazing livestock are a key focus of the SFT’s work and the subject of our next report, due out later this year.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Pastured livestock offer much higher percentages of conjugated linoleic acid; indeed, only two weeks of grain feeding chases it out of the body on beef cattle. You couldn’t pack more animals in a house than you could bring in feedstocks and haul out manure by draft power. Travelers drug manure into hotels.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

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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Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Could the farm bill address this problem?

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Alone on the Range

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

slide-intro --> Alone on the Range By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 Solos en la pradera By Teresa Cotsirilos , October 3, 2023 A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots By Chris Collins , February 3, 2020 It’s illegal to take drone photos of feedlots in Texas.

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