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. A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland.

Ruralism 89

Ruralism Manure Farming Farming 89

ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Recently we held a goat production class out in Luling, Texas, at the marvelous S3 Legacy Ranch. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop.

Rural Development 85

Rural Development Manure Compost Pasture 85

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. The operation would consist of 10 buildings holding 7,200 sows, producing 10 million gallons of liquid manure every year. But no regular farm produces that much manure. She called a realtor she knew who lived nearby who confirmed it.

Farming 108

Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 108

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. And Nofence is just one of several companies getting into the virtual fencing game.

Pasture 143

Pasture Cattle Technology Ruralism 143

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.

Cattle 95

Cattle Livestock Processing Production 95

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. And it’s not just the manure, he adds—cows also burp 220 pounds of methane annually.

Farming 98

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

Ranching 72

Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. The operation would consist of 10 buildings holding 7,200 sows, producing 10 million gallons of liquid manure every year. But no regular farm produces that much manure. She called a realtor she knew who lived nearby who confirmed it.

Farming 83

Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 83

RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

Ranching 52

Ranching Forage Crop Cattle 52

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In addition to an increasing dependence on monocropping in Oaxaca, Martínez cited factors such as the growth of the local ranching industry and the explosion of unsustainable ecotourism practices as additional pressures that endanger agricultural diversity in the region.

Crop 114

Crop Plantation Seeding Agriculture 114

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. In part three of this series, we’ll take a deeper dive to look at carbon inflows and examine one key regenerative principle that can supercharge that inflow on your farm or ranch.

Compost 91

Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

Agriculture 87

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 87

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. The Chickasaw Nation is teaming up with area land managers to remove invasive species, reduce fertilizer use, and restore habitat. Restoration and adaptation actions include the work of Tribes.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Forage Livestock 105

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. Better manure management is among the climate-smart practices the USDA is funding in the partnerships.

Agriculture 97

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 97

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.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Food Tank

MARCH 28, 2025

Then, in 2021, one of Calebs college professors introduced him to Niman Ranch, a network of more than 600 small to mid-sized, independent U.S. Niman Ranch farmers raise pigs outdoors with deep beddingthe way the Banowetz family has always donebut they are also antibiotic-free. Some refused to continue lending him money.

Ranching 110

Ranching Family Farming Farming Farming 110