Industrial Agriculture, Livestock and Manure

Circuit Court Rejects Attempt by WMC and CAFO Groups to Eliminate Environmental Oversight of Wisconsin’s Largest Livestock Operations

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 30th, a Calumet County Circuit Court rejected a reckless attempt to eliminate environmental oversight of the state’s largest livestock facilities. The lobbying groups alleged the DNR lacked authority to require large livestock operations to apply for permits under Wisconsin’s ,, water pollution permitting program.

Livestock

Livestock Manufacturing Manure Ruralism

The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. We need at least 10,000 cows to get enough manure for the amount of methane we want to generate,’” Stone said.

Manure

Manure Cattle Construction Farming

Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

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. The community wanted to avoid the issues they’d heard about in Sunnyside, a small town about 50 miles east of the Yakima Reservation.

Animal Agriculture

Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Manure

Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

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. The community wanted to avoid the issues they’d heard about in Sunnyside, a small town about 50 miles east of the Yakima Reservation.

Ruralism

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

Farming

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture

Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution

Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

This is partially because they have been included as a key ingredient in the Biden administration’s pledge to reduce methane emissions in animal agriculture. At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. This suggests that supporting biogas production incentivizes the growth of the CAFO industry. “If

Manure

Manure Production Farming Farming

Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

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. Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. It also reduces runoff and evaporation.

Agriculture

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Reviews: Food and farming in film 2023

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

Food

Food Farming Farming Ranching

Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice.

Farming

Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture

Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. One estimate, informed by USDA data, suggests that 99 percent of livestock grown in the US is raised in a CAFO. This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice.

Farming

Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture

Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

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 argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.

Cultivation

Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching

Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Runoff from these applications, as well as from soil erosion and livestock manure, is the leading cause of river and stream pollution, the second leading cause of wetland pollution, and the third leading cause of lake pollution. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

Fertilizer

Fertilizer Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture

Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Meg Wilcox You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company By Maisie Ganzler Many, many years ago, I spent a long time covering the world of sustainable business practices. Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking.

Food

Food Farming Farming Forage

The Upcoming Farm Bill: What’s Needed (Courtesy of Civil Eats)

Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Farming

Farming Farming Food Agriculture

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.

Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

Food

Food Farming Farming Agriculture

Agriculture Informer

Circuit Court Rejects Attempt by WMC and CAFO Groups to Eliminate Environmental Oversight of Wisconsin’s Largest Livestock Operations

The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution

Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Reviews: Food and farming in film 2023

Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

The Upcoming Farm Bill: What’s Needed (Courtesy of Civil Eats)

This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.

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