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Civil Eats
MARCH 13, 2024
The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. We need at least 10,000 cows to get enough manure for the amount of methane we want to generate,’” Stone said.
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We
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Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm. The annual crops and drainage tile started to create this leaky system.” Fertilizer as Poison The U.S.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
There was one [Sunnyside] family that had built an outdoor swimming pool for their grandchildren to enjoy, and one of the dairies came in and built a manure lagoon right next to the swimming pool,” she said. The community wanted to avoid the issues they’d heard about in Sunnyside, a small town about 50 miles east of the Yakima Reservation.
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.
Sustainable Harvest International
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases. However, these chemicals harm the very thing the crops rely on: soil. How do family farmers restore soil health?
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
His two books, Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race and Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy, are intricate histories of the policies and politics of the American food industry, and the transformations they’ve wrought on rural life. Photo by Christopher Paul High on Unsplash.
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