Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. Equipment sharing and community information sharing about financing helps to adapt quickly to the changes.

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Food Crop Marketing Production 141

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

This “leaky system” refers to what is not absorbed by the crops on the field, most dangerously, in this case, fertilizer. “It’s And farmers know they’re going to lose some fertilizer. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. As a consequence, they apply extra as insurance.”

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. Interestingly, the huge machine trade show hall featured only one chipper and not a single manure spreader. But numerous exhibits had drones to fly on chemicals and AI mechanisms to adjust chemical fertilizer.

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Manure Mechanics Ecology Tractor 87

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. Do such proposals challenge free trade? Yes, they do. And as European farmers have shown, protest can yield results.

Manure 108

Manure Farming Farming Production 108

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. Chicken, originally jungle fowl, thrive in forested environments.

Acre 126

Acre Pasture Farming Farming 126

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. Diverse plants and manure must take their place. In contrast, today’s dominant players genetically engineer and mass produce seed alongside complementary inputs including fertilizers and pesticides.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 96

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

That means that when there is a heavy rainstorm, the soil will keep absorbing it even while less fertile soils let the rain (and associated nutrients) wash off into nearby bodies of water. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72