Compost Manure Pasture 
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. 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.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. Tucker Gretebeck planting trees on All Season Farm. We’re lucky to have experienced generational changes.
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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 26, 2023
Dairy farmers are working to implement climate-smart manure management practices, and the COWS Act will offer the needed resources to enhance both air and water quality,” said Rob Larew, National Farmers Union President. “Getting the AMMP award sped up our plans to modernize our manure management system by about 10 years. .
UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create.
CalCAN
MAY 17, 2023
The Senate plan also proposes $35 million in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) monies to support methane reduction efforts, including through the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP).
Civil Eats
JANUARY 8, 2024
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.
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas. And it’s not just the manure, he adds—cows also burp 220 pounds of methane annually. For their part, dairy farmers are duly engaged in sustainability efforts, says Raudabaugh.
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