Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

The Biodegradable Products Institute , which sets standards for such bags, stopped certifying pet bags for the US market for that reason. “Our Canadian markets purchase hundreds of thousands monthly, but most of the Canadian composters accept pet waste.” As snow melted, piles of manure reappeared and infiltrated waterways.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At the island’s solid waste facility—hidden away in the hills and surrounded by forestland—piles of food scraps, manure, and green waste slowly turn to soil. Workers collect horse manure by bike along the streets of downtown Mackinac Island. The “slop wagon,” a dray carrying food scraps, travels down Market St.

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Compost Manure Processing Food 144

Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

With the help of a neighbor, the three children mix manure, spread, mulch, and sow seeds while uniting neighbors and demonstrating the power of community. Readers will follow along and count backwards from 20 as the pair weave their way through the market and discover the sheeras, samosas, and more that the vendors have to offer.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

MAY 5, 2024

Upon speaking with local residents, it was concluded that the installation of these plants saved a considerable amount of their time, effort and money, that would earlier be spent in collecting wood, and buying gas and fertiliser from local markets. An outlet pipe then carries the gas direct to the kitchen for cooking and lighting.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This not only improves the working environment for farm staff but also enhances animal quality of life and product, positively impacting consumer perception and marketability of your products. Manure can serve as a reservoir for pathogens, making its handling and disposal a critical aspect of employing biosecurity protocols.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The PCC DBII is one of four such initiatives across the country, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service. With family dairies drying up in droves—the U.S.

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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.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2024

Concentrated animal agriculture is high in emissions because of things such as improper manure management and land used to grow feed. JBS USA’s parent company reported greenhouse gas emissions of 71 million tons in 2021. This is higher than the total emissions of some countries.

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Supply Chain Manure Greenhouse Science 128

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Agricultural run-off, including soil erosion, nutrient loss from fertilizers and animal manure, bacteria from animal manure and pesticides are the largest stressors to water quality of America’s streams and rivers. Market structures and business models should support fair income and wages for farmers and workers.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 22, 2024

The title of Maisie Ganzler’s new book, You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company , was born out of an experience Ganzler had while operating as chief strategy and brand officer at Bon App é tit Management Company.

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Manure Food Animal Agriculture Marketing 82

Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) currently requires compost to be derived from plant and animal materials, such as manure, food scraps, leaves, and straw. Composters are not able to market finished compost as an input to organic agriculture if they accept compostable packaging as a feedstock.”states

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

But when she was setting up The Breakfast Club, Beermann knew that the participants could lose money selling their hogs in the conventional hog market, and the families would not be able to make up the difference. Instead, Beermann fundraised to buy 40 pigs for the program. We’re trying to prepare them for the real world,” says Beermann. “If

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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.

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Ruralism Manure Farming Farming 88

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Biochar is a charcoal-like substance made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (wood chips, logging slash, manure, or other plant byproducts) in a low-oxygen environment. Many biochar producers are not finding a market to sell to because, for many, biochar is new,” Fugagli said. “We

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Compost Fertilizer Processing Forestry 111

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

Over the last few years, the dairy industry has faced many challenges including drought, increasing feed costs, labor shortages, a fluctuating milk market, Covid-19 and most recently flooding. “Getting the AMMP award sped up our plans to modernize our manure management system by about 10 years.

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Manure Compost Livestock Agriculture 40

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

The nutraceutical market for medicinal mushrooms—such as reishi, lion’s mane, and cordyceps—may follow a similar trajectory, with one forecast suggesting the market could triple to reach $62 billion by 2032. There’s a limit to that market, though: “To be frank, you couldn’t possibly eat enough oyster mushrooms in the U.S.

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Compost Farming Farming Logistics 138

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. And as European farmers have shown, protest can yield results.

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Manure Farming Farming Production 107

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There was a ready market for their wool, and when she started selling it, she sold out quickly. Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. Maksymiuk is now part of a wave of people spurring on an emerging market for wool that is often discarded, routing it back into agriculture.

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Processing Fertilizer Nutrient Pollution Ranching 127

UnderstandingAg

MAY 23, 2024

They are the closest thing we have to a no-brainer when it comes to nutrient management and should be part of all crop fertility, manure management, and herbicide programs. Use biology-friendly fertilizers and stabilize nutrients and manures with humates. Humates are natural nutrient stabilizers that enhance soil and plant health.

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Fertilizer Manure Processing Farming 116

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. Industry groups should make it clear to members that cover crops and more in-season application must become part of all manure management plans and programs. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Many farmers are able to spread manure on their cropland over many years. We have the actual land value and the excess fertility value and if the value of these two amounts exceeds the purchase price of the land, then an allocation of each item will be based on the representative fair market value of each item.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” But it’s not quite that simple.

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 98

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some examples of fertilising plants organically are; Agricultural waste Manure from livestock Industrial waste However, inorganic fertilisers exist too which are responsible for directly affecting the soil through chemicals. Molecules are added to the fertilising plants and this promotes soil enrichment and even reproduction amongst plants.

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Manure Compost Straw Fertilizer 98

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet, there were few resources to help with marketing your product, finding customers, getting sales and becoming profitable. He took his products to farmers markets and found if he processed birds and sold legs, wings and breasts separately, people were more likely to buy them. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Compost and organic amendments : Regenerative farmers prioritize the use of organic matter, such as compost, manure, and other natural amendments, to enhance soil fertility and microbial activity. Resistance to change : Farmers may face resistance from within their communities or markets, where conventional practices are deeply entrenched.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. It’s likely that within this centralized market, carbon emissions and sequestration will be part of the formula used to determine whether grain was sustainably grown.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“People have been talking about virtual fencing for a long time,” said Juan Alvez, an extension research associate at the University of Vermont’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, whose expertise includes grazing management, “and now it’s just coming to market.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It even includes the specific type of manure Joly selects to fertilize his vineyards. And because they are indigenous to the region, their manure, arguably, will deliver more authentic terroir. Growth of the market—and the cattle—was slow. It confuses the market. That work is meticulous, complex, and strategic.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 81

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many wool producers in the UK have merino prejudice, which is unsurprising, given the way it dominates the world market and is held up as incomparable by many involved in the international wool trade, including some key figures in British Wool. I asked about internal markets for wool and was told there were none.

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Arable Land Straw Marketing Manure 98

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. In 2009, Sundog Organic Farm was born and they set up a booth at the Downtown farmer’s market in Edmonton.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. “That’s when I started actually using biochar on my crops, doing workshops, and teaching farmers how to make it.”

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

“The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program. . Grants of up to $500,000 would be available for small scale meat processing.

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

She points to wide-scale implementation of anaerobic digesters, which capture methane from sealed manure lagoons to create biogas. And it’s not just the manure, he adds—cows also burp 220 pounds of methane annually. For their part, dairy farmers are duly engaged in sustainability efforts, says Raudabaugh.

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Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

She also started a media marketing company called People of Ag. “We’ve even got into artificial intelligence when it comes to grain marketing.” By using cover crops, no-till, and manure instead of synthetics. “I’ve got my brother on camera. . How do we do it?

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Technology Grain Manure Farming 45

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Over the COVID-19 pandemic, fraud escalated in many sectors, and more fraudulent food items entered the market as criminals capitalized on fears of food shortages and as fewer inspectors were available. Maybe there’s a vendor at a local farmers market selling “organic” blueberries, unaware that she’s not certified.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 14, 2023

Mostly, the need is market-driven as most customers prefer buying certified produce to avoid illness and microbial hazards and there are some restaurants that are requiring that certification of their producers. To increase your market Though a GAP certification is voluntary, many buyers expect you to have the certification.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens. Their brewery in Wales became the first carbon-neutral, nonalcoholic brewery in the world earlier this year.

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