Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. The operation would consist of 10 buildings holding 7,200 sows, producing 10 million gallons of liquid manure every year.

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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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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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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

Many of the issues can be boiled down to the sheer concentration of manure they produce. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. The operation would consist of 10 buildings holding 7,200 sows, producing 10 million gallons of liquid manure every year.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 And that’s by design. Paul region.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) The RPFSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. Creating a Farmer Seed Liaison position in the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), whose responsibilities include strengthening competition and choice in the seed marketplace (Sec.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. In addition to the overall drop in US public agricultural R&D investment, organic research continues to be significantly underfunded compared to its share of the food sales market.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. The program will feature economic industry experts offering their insights on the current state of the global poultry industry and their forecasts for 2025. on Wednesday, Jan.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Seeking a way out of the conundrum, my Indian partner, Hanwant Singh Rathore, and I set up a social enterprise called Camel Charisma that aims at linking herders to markets and thereby supporting the conservation of camels – and not just camels, but the whole culture and knowledge system in which they are embedded.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Transforming the food and farming system through the above domains as well as through crop insurance, agroforestry, organic farming, farmland protection, pasture-based systems, conservation set-asides, manure management, and agrivoltaic systems, the bill creates a clear focus on farm and food system resilience.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Alternative Manure Management Practices (AMMP) The FFNSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sir Albert Howard, who developed the scientific aerobic composting method and brought it to the world in his iconic 1943 book, An Agricultural Testament , wrote “Artificial manures [that’s what he called chemical fertilizer] lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals, and finally to artificial men and women.”

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact. Could the farm bill address this problem?

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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.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Last year, a Civil Eats investigation revealed the scope of the rider’s reach: It exempts the vast majority— 96 percent —of meat, dairy, and poultry operations that hire workers in the U.S. Since 2003, our investigation found, more than 13 people have drowned or asphyxiated in manure pits at dairies. from OSHA oversight.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing. Most of the state’s 9 million pigs live indoors, their waste flushed through slats into open pits called lagoons.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Livestock 98

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. A fifth rule related to creating fairer cattle markets is still in its early stages. The USDA also began stockpiling vaccines for poultry.

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