Daily Yonder

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 companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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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 companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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Ruralism Manure Farming Farming 71

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. farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 122

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As westward expansion swept across the region in the late 1800s, settlers began draining the 40-foot deep lake for farmland. Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 82

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. For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland.

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 70

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

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. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.

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Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 64