Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Diversify Crops & Livestock A great strategy for sidestepping tariffs can be to diversify. This is fuel efficient and provides business locally.

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iFarm

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Talia has been raising and selling livestock for the last 5 years. As Brett Grohsgal from Even Star Farm was quoted in our last newsletter : “A greenhouse: it’s a shelter that lets in light. She sells the chickens, pork and beef at farmers’ markets and direct to her customers who pick up their orders from her farm.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. Livestock have the potential to be valued less for meat, dairy and wool and more for the waste they produce.

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Manure Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. After World War II, a second factor dramatically accelerated the Great Migration.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5 According to FAO, plastic films such as black mulch and greenhouse covers account for the bulk of annual global use, at more than 8 million tons. percent of global emissions.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The operation benefits everyone involved: Sheep farmer Frankie Iturriria gets paid for his time, the collaborating rangeland researchers are breaking ground , and the landowner BHE Renewables can maintain the property with sheep, which have less impact and are more cost-effective than mowers or other livestock. 688, told Civil Eats.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A forthcoming analysis previewed exclusively by Grist found that, on average, the amount of time considered unsafe to work outside during a typical 9-to-5 workday will increase 8 percent by 2050, assuming greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory. If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 74

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 21, 2025

Brittenburg grows organic vegetables and raises livestock across 200 acres, and he needs help to shake off the winter and get things moving again. Matthew Fitzgerald in a tractor in Minnesota. More than half of the grantees participated, calling in from greenhouses, living rooms, and pickup trucks, he said.

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