UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons. This story was published in partnership with Grist. Such efforts are currently on track to prevent 1.8

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The national program helps small and mid-sized dairy producers squeeze more value out of milk by diversifying their products and markets, reducing waste, and innovating packaging and processing. As the last DBII to be established, in 2019, the region has received significantly less funding, so it has only focused on dairy processing.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

Last Friday Governor Newsom’s office released the May Revise, a part of the annual state budget process which updates the governor’s economic and revenue outlook. With the state facing significant economic uncertainty and a worsening deficit now projected at $31.5

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

It is a stable form of charcoal created by heating organic materials, such as crop residues, wood chips, and manure, in the absence of oxygen. This process converts biomass into biochar while capturing carbon that would otherwise be released as carbon dioxide (CO2) during decomposition.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land. We’re rethinking the farm process based on climate predictions,” Payne said.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market. A typical manure spreader, what folks call a “honey wagon”, typically sprays manure on the field.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Dairy and livestock account for more than half of California’s production of the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), one that traps 84 times more heat than carbon dioxide. She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Perennial livestock systems have similar capacities to reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

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CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

The Alternative Manure Management Program ( AMMP ) that reduces methane emissions on dairy and livestock operations includes no funding at all for 2023-24. Organic systems are shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon while also eliminating the use of fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers.

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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. Unfortunately, the exclusion of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from many data collection processes limits the ability of decision-makers in the region to understand and adapt to climate change.

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CalCAN

MARCH 27, 2023

In 2020, wildfires became the second highest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the state, second only to the transportation sector. Despite these advantages, prescribed grazing has received little funding within existing state wildfire mitigation grant programs and little recognition in the state’s wildfire resilience planning processes.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While many sustainability assessments focus on the impacts that farms have on people and planet beyond the farm gate (for example, the contribution of farm greenhouse gas emissions to global warming), less attention is focused on the need to ensure that future generations can meet their needs for farm products, in particular, food.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Even more so, we’re focusing on green manures and cover crops to keep the soil safe.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. Anaerobic digestion creates a mixture of gases, which can be used for electricity or further processed into fuel for vehicles. Expanding manure biogas production was listed as a key way to reduce methane emissions in the agriculture sector.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Yet, milk, specifically cow’s milk, contributes a lot to the greenhouse emissions of our food. 6 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, the majority of which come from cows raised for meat and milk products. Livestock is responsible for anywhere from 11.1 percent to 19. But they each have different ways of going about it.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It generates about a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally.” The current draft is a far cry from what is needed,” reads the letter, which points out that the parties repeatedly addressed the food system throughout the process leading up to the agreement’s draft. These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. A project run by Central State University will reduce this feedlot’s methane emissions through an innovative manure management system.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. The process itself isn’t entirely new; it’s similar to how scientists grow human organ cells for medical purposes, Glenn Gaudette tells Sentient.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

And the perks go far beyond the pastures, Brillinger says: “We get cleaner air and water, healthier communities, and a huge reduction in greenhouse gas emissions” through carbon sequestration. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

But during a press conference Monday, Vilsack defended the process. President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting about reducing the costs of meat through increased competition in the meat processing industry in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 3, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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