The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. Extend living vegetation (no fallow) 5.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Lessons From Mushers and Others Composting is the controlled breakdown of organic matter into humus, a rich soil amendment many prefer over chemical fertilizers. Farmers and gardeners often use livestock manure from poultry, cattle or horses.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

The report also noted that lower prices for farm inputs, such as fertilizer, partially offset the drop in commodity prices but not enough to avoid declines in farmers’ net returns. For livestock producers, lower prices for corn and soybeans reduce feed costs, offsetting price and demand challenges.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Deer, for example, help cycle nutrients and fertilize soil. One of the main examples is the wolf population in the American West—and you have in Montana, Idaho, and California issues with predation of livestock by predators.” The poultry get locked in their big open-air aviaries every night so the wild things can do their thing.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Funding from supplemental and ad hoc programs, like the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) is predicted to decline compared to 2023. Livestock Purchases Livestock and poultry expenses are projected to slow down in 2024, but still increase by eight percent.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2024

an animal health company improving success rates of embryo transfer (ET) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) for cattle producers, announces open enrollment for EmVision. Join the Livestock Publications Council for the January Coffee and Collaboration on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 10 a.m. EmGenisys, Inc. ,

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards. The focus, Colonial Williamsburg’s livestock husbander Darin Durham explains, is central to Colonial Williamsburg’s overarching mission of showing people what 18th-century colonial British American life looked like.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

It helps increase yields and the nutrient content of crops, reduce synthetic fertilizer use, and improve soil health and water retention, among other benefits. Another study from Bayreuth University found that fertilizer from compost facilities contained large quantities of biodegradable plastics.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022. Cattle, hog, poultry and milk prices all increased in 2022. Over the next 10 years, average nominal prices are much lower than they have been in 2022-23, but they remain above the average of 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. full_link LEARN MORE Find out why climate change has intensified fertilizer runoff. But for “nonpoint sources” of pollution, the law relies on voluntary efforts to control pollutants from various sources that accumulate through runoff.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s Farm System Reform Act of 2023 proposed a moratorium on CAFOs, expanded country-of-origin labeling, and increased competition and transparency in livestock, poultry, and meat markets.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

Agwired

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

CowManager , a revolutionary ear sensor system that provides information about fertility, health and nutrition is pleased to introduce a new, intuitive dashboard that adds improved functionality and ease of use. Poultry Tech Summit 2023 was hosted by WATT Global Media and Poultry Future on Nov. The future of U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Manure 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. The CAFO would not be able to claim that nearby farms were going to use the manure as fertilizer.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. The CAFO would not be able to claim that nearby farms were going to use the manure as fertilizer.

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Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 82

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. Around 60-70% of livestock have either been killed or prematurely slaughtered to feed people. It’s not just settlers taking land in the West Bank; in March the Israeli government annexed nearly 2,000 acres of the fertile Jordan Valley.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins has been engaged in American agriculture since an early age, baling hay and raising livestock in Glen Rose, Texas. She continues to raise livestock today and is now passing her passion for agriculture on to her children, who are also involved in FFA and showing steers.

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NASDA

APRIL 4, 2025

Beet Sugar Association U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc. Dairy Export Council U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Limiting Fair Competition One such policy rider, related to the implementation of rules associated with the Packers and Stockyards Act (P&SA), would effectively prevent the USDA from promoting fair market competition for livestock and poultry growers, both now and in the future.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 12113).

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 5, 2025

Exports Livestock, poultry, and dairy exports are forecast to rise to $39.7 wheat and dairy products, while Middle Eastern markets are importing more beef and poultry. It could also increase input costs for farmers relying on imported goods, such as fertilizers, machinery, and chemicals. beef and dairy products.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Marketing 66

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities /.slide-intro In response to a public-records request, DEQ released only 33 public complaints against livestock operations in North Carolina from January 2008 to April 2018.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 152 MILLION UNIQUE BROWSERS WORLDWIDE High Country News This article is part of FERN’s series Livestock and Rural Communities /.slide-intro In response to a public-records request, DEQ released only 33 public complaints against livestock operations in North Carolina from January 2008 to April 2018.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Trump administration dissolved the USDA agency tasked with regulating anti-competitive practices in the livestock, poultry, meat, grain, and oilseed industries. In 2022, for example, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at creating more competitive practices, especially in meat and poultry supply chains.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Minh started raising chickens in 2016, when he and Nhu-Hai took out a federal loan to purchase a farm with eight long metal barns built for housing poultry. Kahn has met with Iowa farmers about consolidation in the fertilizer industry , and in 2023, she led a significant update to the government’s merger guidelines.

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