Farmland Grain Manure 
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. Others have been able to relieve the problem through water treatments and removal of affected hay and manure. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 8, 2024
For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.
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Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Better Soils, Better Lives is helping heal soils among smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa with green manure and cover cropping, and the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils is working across the African continent to build nutritious food production through soil health. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. German farmers also saw movement in their favor from their lawmakers on fuel subsidies. Matters are much the same in the US.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. Roughly 80 percent of the farmland in Iowa is owned by offsite landlords, who rent it out to farmers.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 16, 2023
The birds spend every day outside—where they eat a combination of dry grain, sprouted grain, bugs, and plants—in one paddock, and when the plants there have been sufficiently grazed down, they’re moved to a second one. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.
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