CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

The Alternative Manure Management Program ( AMMP ) that reduces methane emissions on dairy and livestock operations includes no funding at all for 2023-24. Another challenge of these large budget swings is having the administrative systems and staff in place to distribute the funds. The budget includes no funding at all for FY 2023-24.

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Agriculture Agriculture Distribution Manure 52

DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields. All data are collected consistently with identical questionnaires deployed, irrespective of county, commodity, year, and farm type. The data are weighted and projected using factors from the latest census or Earth Observation (EO).

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Distributed at music festivals and public events and in municipalities throughout Belgium, France and Luxembourg, the upcycled product, which looks like a hollowed-out wheel of camembert, brings the process full circle by reining in the world’s most discarded waste item.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leading manufacturer of innovative agricultural technology, Fliegl has announced the launch of its latest chain manure spreader, the KDS 255 Muck Control This vehicle closes the gap between the large tandem spreaders and the more compact KDS 140 and thus Fliegl now offers the ideal solution for farms of all sizes.

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Logistics Manure Mechanics Tractor 40

Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Proof & Company, Singapore In partnership with ecoSPIRITS , Proof & Company distributes 14 of its spirits in Singapore using circular packaging.

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Beverage Ecology Compost Cultivation 124

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One of the core functions of the USDA, upon its foundation in 1862, was the collection and public distribution of germplasm , or seeds. By the end of the 19th century, a third of USDA’s budget was devoted to germplasm collection and distribution. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 97

Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

Some have joined groups to learn about innovative farming practices such as cover crops, minimum tillage or low-disturbance manure application. Program funding to help farmers implement conservation practices on their farms has continued to increase, with $1 million distributed this year to 36 watershed groups across the state.

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Manure Farming Distribution Farming 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

It is a stable form of charcoal created by heating organic materials, such as crop residues, wood chips, and manure, in the absence of oxygen. This method ensures uniform distribution and integration into the soil profile. Biochar is a carbon-rich material produced through the pyrolysis of organic biomass.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 68

Farmbrite

MARCH 14, 2023

It does that through an audit of a food products' growing, handling, packaging, and distribution. It allows you to continue producing, packaging, and distributing safe goods. Properly store and contain the manure. Ensure a minimum of 120 days before harvest using raw manure.

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Harvester Harvesting Harvest Food 52

Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

By focusing my attention off the farm, to the spaces of distribution and marketing that bring food into urban consumers’ consciousness, I have hoped to make rural and agricultural history relevant to people who might otherwise not think much about it.

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Crop Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 79

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will distribute more than $56 million to producers to enact climate-friendly practices and serve as a pilot program for a national model. It is the largest grant received in the university’s history.

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Farming Farming Forestry Agriculture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

And thanks to donations, some milk is distributed for free to school children and poor people with health problems, such as TB. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure. It is shipped out all over India directly to the end consumer.

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Livestock Food Forage Cattle 75

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. To be sure such ground truthing occurs, NSAC advocates dedicating a minimum amount or percentage of RCPP funds for the purpose of supporting State and Tribal Soil Health Programs.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure.

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Cultivation Cattle Ranching Science 67

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. As in other regions, the impacts are distributed disproportionately, with Indigenous populations especially affected by struggles with water availability.

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Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

If they opt to sell them under the Tree-Range label, storage, distribution, and marketing are all taken care of, as the birds make their way to consumers in the Minneapolis-St. In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. Paul region.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, by increasing the presence of deeper rooted perennials and distributing manure, such practices can increase the overall carbon sequestration of a grazing system. Such changes leave the system less vulnerable to temperature extremes, droughts, and floods.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down. If you are using organic fertilizers such as manure it can have a variable nutrient content which might change over time. Consult a professional on the best form/source ideal for your crops and farm.

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Fertilizer Compost Crop Distribution 97

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks. Graham said that 2025 would be a year of testing the waters of collaborative capacity building, joint distribution, and building a food community.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Along with the seaweed supplements, Straus has implemented a few new pieces of tech, including a methane digester that captures methane emissions from on-farm manure that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere and converts it into electricity. But they each have different ways of going about it.

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Greenhouse Manure Supply Chain Livestock 119

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Better manure management is among the climate-smart practices the USDA is funding in the partnerships.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

After the government officially declared that the public health emergency was over, the 32 states and territories still distributing emergency benefits—including Washington, D.C., RS: This move was expected, because the SNAP “temporary allotments” you referenced were only intended to be a short-term pandemic measure.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation. By combining interdisciplinary research, policy innovation, and collaboration, GFI aims to reimagine how food is grown, distributed, and consumed for a healthier planet and better lives.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

In 2021, Buler and a team of researchers mapped waterfowl distribution relative to commercial poultry farms in the Central Valley. The wild birds made use of the effluent ponds, also called lagoons, which hold slurry manure. This low-lying stretch of land produces a quarter of the U.S. We were surprised by it,” Casazza said. “We

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Poultry Cattle Agriculture Agriculture 144

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

King described how the ranchers move the animals to fresh paddocks daily, as Lora Soderquist, a colleague of Glover’s at Impact Ag Partners, explained how that movement prevents overgrazing, keeps living roots in place at all times, spreads the manure to stimulate grass regrowth and microbial communities, and sequesters carbon in the soil.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to Civil Eats, animal confinement workers are subject to long-term lung and acute respiratory injuries from their work environments and are exposed to asphyxiating gases from manure. Black communities in the South, many of whom are descendants of enslaved people, are also disproportionately affected by factory farms.

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Farming Farming Animal Agriculture Ruralism 79

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system. The project will reduce the feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system that prevents the liquids and solids from separating. But their equity goals tend to be fuzzy.

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Manure Fertilizer Distribution Farming 124

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Try to limit direct livestock contact and access to feed storage, distribution equipment, bedding, feeders, and waterers. Bio Security Practices for Manure Biosecurity practices for manure management are essential in safeguarding animal health and preventing the spread of disease on farms.

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Livestock Manure Farming Farming 98

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sir Albert Howard, who developed the scientific aerobic composting method and brought it to the world in his iconic 1943 book, An Agricultural Testament , wrote “Artificial manures [that’s what he called chemical fertilizer] lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals, and finally to artificial men and women.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. In the years after World War II, U.S. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution.

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Food Crop Processing Tractor 61

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Livestock 133

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Livestock 98

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Over the past four years, the Biden administrations priorities have centered on spending billions of dollars on food and farm infrastructure, paying farmers to implement climate-smart practices, finalizing new regulations related to the environment , labor, food safety , and nutrition, and distributing more dollars to food insecure families.

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