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. Data collection and sharing mechanisms to track the progress and impact of diversification initiatives can be used to refine strategies and measure success.

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Food Crop Marketing Production 141

Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Photo by Meg Wilcox.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Slurry pits must be emptied to make room for the never-ending stream of manure. Manure is often not a top priority for most dairies and handling may have to wait until seasonal fieldwork is completed. This causes the soil microbiology to go dormant.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. And goop to put in confinement hog facilities to make the lagoon manure less toxic.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It is important to note that the plants will produce far less root exudates if they are being fed routinely with applied fertilizers and manures. There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. If the soil microbes are not fed, then they (i.e.,

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Kerston, however, insists that bad practices such as using synthetic fertilizer consistently show up in the data. “If

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The entire production chain of the feedstuffs going into modern confinement dairies and feedlots involves the burning of fossil fuels to produce the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides necessary for large-scale, mono-crop, industrial production of corn and soy. follow the laws of thermodynamics, and B.)

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Cattle Livestock Processing Production 97