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. If one product suffers due to pests or weather events, others can still provide income.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Creative, Collaborative Financing Without Dirt Capital Partners and Foodshed Capital , this next chapter might not have been possible. Each—from Steward to Iroquois Valley to RSF Social Finance —uses a different approach to give a leg up to farmers who might not otherwise qualify for financing. Graham’s chickens will help here.
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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. And goop to put in confinement hog facilities to make the lagoon manure less toxic.
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.
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent. Des Moines finances its removal system from its roughly 600,000 ratepayers. There needs to be a plan for every acre of farmland in Iowa and how its nutrients will be managed, as well as every animal and its manure.” “You’re
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.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
In a recent paper on crop insurance and finance in agriculture you wrote about rural politicians from both parties scrambling to prop up widely unpopular farm subsidies. Photo provided by Hamilton. Why do rural politicians feel the need to defend policies widely understood to favor large-scale agribusiness?
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