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These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

Civil Eats

The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

Since land is limited to what you have available, farmers can use a simple equation or technology to help them calculate this amount. Compost: Compost improves and adds nourishment to the soil. Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down.

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Practicing Resurrection: Using Green Manures on a Small Semi-Urban Homestead

ATTRA

On the Mad Farm, this is enacted through compost and especially the cover crops that occupy space on the gardens each season. Tomatoes planted into a tilled-in rye, vetch, and red clover green manure, May 21. I put in the tomatoes on May 21, 11 days after tilling in the green manure. This year was different. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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USDA Invests in Domestic Fertilizer Production

ATTRA

FPEP is funded by the Commodity Credit Corporation and provides funding to independent business owners to help them modernize equipment, adopt new technologies, build production plants and more.

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COWS Act Aims to Boost Dairy Profitability and Sustainability

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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.

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All Chopped Up with Somewhere to Grow

ATTRA

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. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Biochar Is Key to Cascading Benefits in Innovative Carbon Chicken Project

ATTRA

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. To contend with these issues, the project composts the poultry litter and combines it with biochar made from forest and sawmill waste and poultry litter. If passed, the bill will authorize the U.S.

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