Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

These collaborations have provided snapshots of how practices like compost, cover crops, livestock integration and reduced tillage (to name a few) can impact soil health on a given farm in a given region.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many conventional farmers implement organic practices such as compost applications, diversified rotations, cover cropping, or biological integrated pest management (IPM) to build healthy soil and reduce the direct and environmental costs of production. These include: Livestock and poultry breed development for organic systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Livestock farmers who practice regenerative farming, improving soil and biodiversity with methods such as rotational grazing, strive to waste nothing and can still wind up with leftovers. Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. Farm Hounds jerky.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

Additionally, the department has opened a Disaster Hay and Livestock Resources Assistance Portal to connect suppliers with those in need.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Alternative Sources of Revenue from Chickens A few other things to think about selling associated with chickens and poultry are; selling well-aged compost to local gardeners, and feathers to crafters. It helps you keep track of tasks, accounting, livestock/crops, inventory, customer info, online eCommerce, and more!

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most recently, Denali launched depackaging technology across the US that automatically separates food from its packaging materials like plastic and cardboard, producing a cleaner stream of organic material that can be turned into animal feed, compost or converted into energy with anaerobic digesters.

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Livestock, heavy machinery and hikers along mountain paths create compaction, not just lawns. To build sustainable soil structure with plenty of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, we made compost by processing kitchen scraps in a tumbler. When the compost is mature, we mix it with dirt when planting.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 4, 2024

They are also exploring animal feed and have already helped farms in multiple states receive donations that they can use to care for their livestock. And the platform is broadening its focus beyond food to include household goods, including kitchen equipment, hand sanitizer, and other products.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The goats are part of a growing trend of using livestock to mitigate wildfire risks across the West. Beyond general grazing permits, which the Forest Service has issued since its inception, Thibideau says that last year his region used livestock to graze 4,544 acres specifically to mitigate wildfire.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some examples of fertilising plants organically are; Agricultural waste Manure from livestock Industrial waste However, inorganic fertilisers exist too which are responsible for directly affecting the soil through chemicals. Molecules are added to the fertilising plants and this promotes soil enrichment and even reproduction amongst plants.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Synthetic fertilizer production and use meanwhile contributes 2 percent of global GHG emissions annually, while livestock accounts for nearly one-third of all human-caused methane gas emissions in the U.S.—though Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are sometimes mixed with food waste at compost facilities.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

The COWS Act would establish a new federal program aiming to improve economic viability and sustainability for the dairy and livestock industry. Two to three times more farmers have applied than there has been funding available. “Getting the AMMP award sped up our plans to modernize our manure management system by about 10 years.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 19, 2021

On this blog I've mentioned more than once the cutting edge research in Finland regarding robust immune systems in farm kids who grow up in livestock barns. Certainly soil enriched with compost would be the ultimate source. Not surprisingly, then, this snippet goes straight to Finland for its proof.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A couple of years ago, after being besieged by questions about raising livestock on a small scale, I wrote POLYFACE MICRO: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

100 million a year would be available for compost infrastructure. “The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For 2023, applicants must address one of the four following priorities: Feeding Management and Enteric Methane Reduction Livestock : feeding management is critical to conservation of natural resources and climate solutions. National sub priorities for SHD in include: Designing SHMS for high disturbance production systems (e.g.,

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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. We brought in a herd of 10 Nantaise cows and a bull for their compost,” he explains.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Instead of throwing garden refuse away or composting it, one could instead chop it up and drop it as mulch back into the garden. Mulberry ( Morus sp.) is also highly useful for this system of “cut and carry” but does not fix nitrogen like its leguminous counterparts. Mulberry, however, grows like a weed and is highly nutritious.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Her goal for the class was to learn how to improve her soil and figure out how to compost. What she found opened her eyes to how the system incentivizes commodity crops, which are more often grown to feed livestock, rather than to feed people. “Why was my soil so bad that I couldn’t grow tomatoes correctly?”

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

One of the most common questions people ask me is “I live in an apartment; is there anything I can do to change the food system, to change the ecology, practically, to change nutrition and livestock abuse?” If the bedding is kept moist—and it should be so it’ll compost—it won’t have much dust. I didn’t say to quit pasturing chickens.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can also add carbon via humic products or compost, but the most efficient route is to let plants do the work for us. Nurture life in the soil by minimizing disturbance, armoring the surface, keeping living roots in the soil, adding diversity, and incorporating livestock. Remember, it’s a cycle.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

In recent years, wildfire disasters in the United States have led to many growers asking questions about how to navigate post-wildfire food safety concerns with their crops and livestock. Many agencies have established minimum thresholds for pollutants of concern to human health, livestock, forage, soil, and water.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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RR2CS

AUGUST 28, 2023

The three farms I went to could not have been more different: a vineyard in Nova Scotia, a vegetable farm with livestock in New Brunswick and a grain farm in southern Saskatchewan. I decided to call it regenerating rural opportunities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent. Nevertheless, the versatility, affordability, and convenience of synthetic polymers make them indispensable to most industries, including agriculture. In 2021, the United Nations (U.N.)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Another livestock farmer, Bob Vollinger, has also shifted toward grazing practices. She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. At Elmwood Stock Farm in Kentucky, he was practicing crop-livestock integration and extending his rotations. The bonus: increased climate resilience and carbon sequestration capacity.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Currently, most potato peels are discharged or used in animal feed and biogas production through anaerobic digestion or composting, as they are considered low in added value—meaning they lack significant attributes or advantages compared to similar products already on the market.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

The San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the nation; it produced crops, livestock, and agricultural commodities worth $36.5 Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. billion in 2022.

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CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

FY 2022-23: $70 million ($40 million reduction (36%) from the from the original $110 million allocated) FY 2023-24: $0 allocated Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP): Funds livestock operations to transition from manure lagoons to dry handling and storage, manure composting, and increased time on pastures to reduce potent methane emissions. (..)

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

We traveled to Dickenson College Organic Farm in Carlisle, PA to visit Matt Steiman, Farm Energy and Livestock Manager at the farm. The liquid portion of the digestate is staged to be used as a nutrient source for the farm’s crop fields and compost piles.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Summary of Marker Bills Converting Our Waste Sustainably (COWS) Act This bill would set up a new program in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions on dairy and other livestock operations. Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Hans Herren showing attendees an on-farm device as he discussed their experience in making compost tea. They’ve also experimented in fertigating with microbial brews and compost tea. Hans began the tour by pointing out the solar panels on top of the large shed where guests gathered. “We

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

CLIMATE SMART FARMER OF THE YEAR: SIERRA ORCHARDS When a small film crew arrived at Sierra Orchards last year for a video shoot on integrated crop livestock systems, the interviewer asked farmer Sean McNamara about his seed mix.

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Caff

JANUARY 25, 2023

From producing their own compost to managing a CSA to selling direct at farmers markets all over Southern California, J.R. But more recently, Brian took the lead on a project confronting one glaring and growing consequence of climate change–wildfire–and sought ways to empower livestock managers to help mitigate risk.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

The latter is where Dimbleby focuses the second half of the book, unpacking the land-sharing versus land-sparing debate, as well as the conflicting positions on natural capital, carbon sequestration and crucially, the role of livestock. Langford is greatly influenced by the experiences of the farmers she meets along the way.

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