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On The Ground: Your Dog’s Food Probably Comes From a Factory Farm. Meet Some Folks Who Want to Change That

Modern Farmer

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques. Farm Hounds jerky. Customers couldn’t get enough of the local grass-farmed treats.

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Spotlight: Climate-Related Marker Bills for the Upcoming Farm Bill

CalCAN

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

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Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

Next, they purchased a no-drill seeder together, and it allowed them to plant rows of grain directly into orchards and pastures without tilling, a practice known to benefit the soil. To get [your mulch or compost] spread in a timely manner was really quite impossible,” said Gonzales-Siemens.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. The Alternative Manure Management Program also offers a more cost-effective and greener alternative to bio-digesters, minimizing methane at the source by up to 90 percent and simultaneously generating compost.

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Could Dry-Farming Wheat in San Diego Seed a Local Grain Economy?

Civil Eats

Cost to rent farmland in San Diego is three times the national average. K” Kolodge, who manages soils and compost for the dairy, said it would be tough to ensure predictable yield on rainwater alone. acres in a former horse pasture. That makes lower-profit wheat a pretty hard sell. Craig “Dr.

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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Civil Eats

They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We This is rare in Minnesota and other the parts of the corn belt, where the water on millions of acres drain directly to waterways due to the ceramic pipes, or drainage tiles , that were installed below farmland over the last century.

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