Industrial Agriculture Manure Plowing 
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. The other main factor, manure, is also increasing as CAFOs become more prevalent.
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. Now, climate-smart agriculture aims to recapture some of that carbon. “A It also reduces runoff and evaporation. 28, 2019.
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