Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these—housing thousands to tens of thousands of animals—embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.” Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. Kalbach’s farm had always been surrounded by other farms.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these—housing thousands to tens of thousands of animals—embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.” Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. Kalbach’s farm had always been surrounded by other farms.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air. Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. The report Anaerobic digesters are not typically things that you would ever see on a small, pasture-based dairy or farm. Expanding manure biogas production was listed as a key way to reduce methane emissions in the agriculture sector.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

These practices include waste storage facilities and waste facility covers, practices intended to prevent seepage of liquid animal manure from CAFOs into local water supplies. Expensive anaerobic digesters are most often installed at CAFOs to capture methane gas from manure lagoons. Revealing the Problem with Factory Farming.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In other words, Vilsack argued, climate action could help save the American farm. The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factory farms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size. million over the 2017 census. The EWG analysis found similar trends.

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