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Bird Flu May Be Driven By This Overlooked Factor

Civil Eats

poultry production. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. poultry industry, resulting in the death of over 90 million domestic birds since January 2022, when the virus was first detected in wild ducks in the Carolinas and then soon after in poultry.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. The Soil Association’s report, Peak Poultry , details that roughly three million tonnes of soya are imported into the UK each year, and most of it is bought by chicken producers to fatten chickens.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials. NSAC calls on the House and Senate to include the bipartisan COWS Act provisions in a final farm bill.

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Expands the types of “new or innovative conservation approaches” funded through On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials to include on-farm nutrient recycling, perennial production systems including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops, and livestock-related practices that reduce GHG emissions including enteric methane emissions.

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Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

Civil Eats

poultry farmers in the worst outbreak of the virus since 2022. Altogether, more than 159 million poultry livestock in the U.S. The viruss impacts on the poultry industryand, to a lesser extent, on dairy production may well be the biggest interruption to the U.S. In December, some 13.2 In the first six weeks of this year, 23.5

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