Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse. This view into what factory farming was really like made national headlines.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Josh Tetrick swears he’d have another job if only all poultry producers farmed thoughtfully and could keep up with the appetite of a growing global population. Tetrick says his company has no interest in squeezing out small-scale poultry farming operations that favor sustainable and humane methods. The lab at Good Meat.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, Scully and her colleagues write, “We choose to call these ‘unnatural disasters’ because they are driven by the increase in greenhouse gases generated by human activities. Moreover, if greenhouse gases are not reduced, extreme weather will continue to cause crop loss, and inflation could rise as much as 3.3

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bovaer reduces methane emissions by 30 percent on average for dairy cows, and thereby lowers the overall greenhouse gas footprint per liter of milk by 10-15 percent. The award pays tribute to individuals for “sustained and exemplary service” to the poultry and egg industry.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas that scientists say has driven roughly 30 percent of Earth’s warming since pre-industrial times. Statewide, the FOE report found that beef, cheese, and poultry together accounted for more than two-thirds of school purchases through the USDA program.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Credit: Meat + Poultry. Voltiris Voltiris’s solar panels can help power greenhouses. This Swiss company produces color-optimized solar modules for greenhouses which allow the necessary light wavelengths to reach the plant and store the unnecessary wavelengths for energy usage in the facility. Credit: Serpentine Ventures.

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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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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Food and Agriculture Organization, China leads the world in terms of the production of cereals, cotton, fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs and fishery products. iGDP recently released a working version of their large-scale food system analysis.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. Pollution from Tyson farmers’ corn and soybean fields and poultry and beef CAFOs, for example, has severely impacted Midwest waterways.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

initiative developed in partnership with the world’s biggest chemical, seed, and meat companies—many of whom drive the food system’s biggest sources of greenhouse emissions. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to advance AIM for Climate, a joint U.S.-U.A.E Farmers and environmental groups were also notably sparse at the summit.

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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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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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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bovaer reduces methane emissions by 30 percent on average for dairy cows, and thereby lowers the overall greenhouse gas footprint per liter of milk by 10-15 percent. IPPE is the world’s largest annual feed, meat, and poultry and egg industry event of its kind and is one of the 25 largest trade shows in the United States.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. Federal and state governments have put forth biogas technology as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. In the end, they voted to maintain the one-mile setback, but only for poultry CAFOs.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. Federal and state governments have put forth biogas technology as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. In the end, they voted to maintain the one-mile setback, but only for poultry CAFOs.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour 12113).

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Each year, the Alabama poultry industry produces two fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers worth of poultry litter, or about 3.6 Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer. billion pounds.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Watts, a former contract poultry farmer, represented everything Garc é s was against. Modern Farmer: You begin this book by recounting your first meeting with Craig Watts, a former contract poultry farmer. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met Craig Watts. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Agwired

MARCH 17, 2025

Profitable feeding margins in the livestock and poultry sectors are also supporting corn demand. According to a new report from CoBanks Knowledge Exchange , corn is expected to pull acres from soybeans, spring wheat, cotton and grain sorghum when the spring planting season gets under way. Since about 60 percent of U.S.

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Agwired

JANUARY 13, 2025

National FFA Officer Candidates will be attending the International Poultry Expo (IPE), part of the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), as a result of the USPOULTRY Foundation s ongoing initiative to further attract the best and brightest students to the poultry and egg industries. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But in Mississippi, with a more diverse farming mix including poultry, livestock and cotton, the EQIP practices that got the most funding were for fencing, grade stabilization structures and irrigation. There’s another $300 million to quantify greenhouse gas sequestration. billion more for EQIP and $3.25

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The previous evening, when I had closed up the greenhouse for the night, there had been a perfect row of beautiful young pepper plants just getting ready to flower. Then I realized that my outside greenhouse light, which automatically turned on at dusk, was negatively impacting the ability of the owls to hunt in the dark.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

the research is part of the Association’s comprehensive research program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. Made possible by an endowing Foundation gift from Georges Inc., The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) congratulated Gov.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Medically Important Antibiotics Are Still Being Used to Fatten Up Pigs The FDA Is Still Not Tracking How Farms Use Antibiotics Poultry Implosion. Their data showed that only 11 of the 50 companies reduced their overall greenhouse gas emissions compared to their base years, while 12 increased emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 12, 2024

This rule from USDA is a landmark moment for poultry growers in their long struggle for basic fairness in their contracts,” Edna Rodriguez, RAFI’s executive director, said in a press release. ” Read More: Just a Few Companies Control the Meat Industry. Could a New Approach to Monopolies Level the Playing Field?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

After a ramp-up period, Fetterman’s legislation would require the USDA to purchase at least 20 percent of its meat and poultry from small and mid-sized processors and to prioritize contracts with regional producers, socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, and companies that have fair labor agreements in place.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , agriculture accounts for an estimated 10 to 12 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions globally. Tree Range Farms, another organization backed by Terra Regenerative Capital, focuses on creating more natural forested habitats for chickens on poultry farms.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

California passed by voter referendum a bill, Proposition 12 , that would ban [in-state sale of meat and poultry resulting from] gestation crates. Globally, food systems make up one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, but get 3 percent of public climate funding within the United States. According to the USDA, 85 percent of U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Wendy Burgh, co-owner of Dry Ridge Farm , a small poultry and livestock operation in Mars Hill, North Carolina, donated $4,000 worth of eggs the first week after the storm and was later repaid by Farm Connection. It’s a lot of things to figure out—the barn, the greenhouses, all the systems.” It’s way easier.”

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Food Tank

JANUARY 2, 2025

The United States federal nutrition wheels are turningand they could either drive us closer to climate catastrophe or prevent millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution a year. Theyre also critical to reducing our greenhouse gas footprint. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Thats a huge mistake.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The food sector, top to bottom, generates nearly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And the meat industry alone, by some estimates, accounts for nearly 60 percent of all greenhouse gasses produced by the food system. Climate change, though, is where the game is really changing for meat. And on it went.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Vilsack pushed the third and potentially most significant over the finish line j ust yesterday , making substantive changes to the poultry industrys notorious tournament system. In October, the administration unveiled a national strategy to reduce food waste , which is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

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