ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Linda Coffey, Margo Hale, and Dave Scott, NCAT Livestock Specialists With many parts of the country currently experiencing bitter temperatures, we’re re-posting this blog from March 2021 to offer potential livestock watering strategies for your farm during severe cold snaps. Livestock waterer made from a 55-gallon barrel.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. Not to mention that no livestock owner wants to see their animals covered in mud and manure. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Planting, harvesting, breeding, raising livestock all require a period of waiting, but there are forms of waiting that can be minimized in farming operations, such as equipment repair, delayed harvest times due to unavailable labor, and delays of shipments of agricultural inputs. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The goats are part of a growing trend of using livestock to mitigate wildfire risks across the West. Lawn mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, tractors, and trimmers can all spark a wildland fire if used during the wrong time of year,” Garrett says. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Technology in agriculture production is not limited to machinery like tractors and combines, but also irrigation, hoop houses, hydroponics, animal breeding techniques, etc. Strategy The strategic planning process is a vital activity that should be implemented and monitored by the organization’s leadership. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Farming Farming Processing Technology 40

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Livestock have the potential to be valued less for meat, dairy and wool and more for the waste they produce. IATP has written about how biogas, and digesters in particular, is a false climate solution that further props up a polluting system of animal production, in which rural communities pay the price. Accessed May 3, 2023.

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Manure Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 52