UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Before his regenerative transition, Bergler would come home from his work off the farm as a custom home builder and face the time-consuming chores associated with feeding cattle daily, spending hours baling hay, mixing feed, and hauling manure, all of which left little time for the luxury of family time.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks. Plastic-covered walk-in coolers ready to be unwrapped and filled with produce and poultry were stacked on pallets. Graham’s chickens will help here.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. Ammonium nitrogen can be lost quickly through ammonia volatilization if manure or compost is not incorporated into the soil shortly after application. Swine Manure : Typically has 20-35% of total nitrogen as ammonium nitrogen.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Each year, the Alabama poultry industry produces two fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers worth of poultry litter, or about 3.6 Poultry litter is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and much of the waste product is applied to farmland as a low-cost fertilizer. billion pounds.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This system provides an unparalleled solution for removing moisture and oxygen from gas streams, addressing critical purification challenges in livestock applications such as biogas production from manure digesters. poultry industry provides 2,012,560 jobs, $132.7 Additionally, the report highlights that the company collected 1.7

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Bio Security Practices for Manure Biosecurity practices for manure management are essential in safeguarding animal health and preventing the spread of disease on farms. Manure can serve as a reservoir for pathogens, making its handling and disposal a critical aspect of employing biosecurity protocols.

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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. Hardin’s plan is specifically designed to address three things: The first is runoff from poultry litter from the region’s many chicken houses that deposits excess phosphorus into the Illinois River watershed.

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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

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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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.

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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. . … When you feel the music come to you when you taste the wine, you know that the work you did in the vineyard is coming through.”

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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. Just look at what’s happened in poultry, allowing porches and other ridiculous exceptions that allow industrial operators to claim organic.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Using biological waste (such as manure from poultry and animals) can be harmful to the environment if not properly disposed of. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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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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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using biological waste (such as manure from poultry and animals) can be harmful to the environment if not properly disposed of. Subsequently, a safe step for this fermentation is to use a windrow type for composting the biological waste.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

These factory farms not only force animals to live in overcrowded, dirty conditions, they also produce copious amounts of manure, which can cause water pollution and other health hazards. Livestock, poultry and animal products brought in approximately $140 million. The average U.S. farm is 464 acres.)

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

His bottom strands are only 6 inches off the ground, which he said has been extremely effective for predator control, as he also raises poultry and smaller livestock. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

poultry production. poultry industry, resulting in the death of over 90 million domestic birds since January 2022, when the virus was first detected in wild ducks in the Carolinas and then soon after in poultry. have been farmworkers in the dairy and poultry industries. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure. The world does not need industrial camel production, in fact we must strive to prevent camels following in the tracks of pigs, cattle and poultry. Furthermore, it supports, and is even essential to, the germination of the hard-shelled seeds.

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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. NSAC strongly supports the reinvestment of IRA funding into conservation programs’ baseline, however, the original climate-focus must also be retained.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 16, 2023

We experimented with a combination of ruminants and agroforestry, perennial crops and poultry, as well as some annual crops. We had aspirations to start producing Black Soldier Fly Larvae as an alternative sustainable protein source for our ducks, and to recruit earthworms to compost our duck manure, turning it into a super compost.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Farmers and gardeners often use livestock manure from poultry, cattle or horses. As snow melted, piles of manure reappeared and infiltrated waterways. “Since it’s from dog manure, it is not recommended for vegetables, but there are a lot of other uses for it,” says ranger Mitch Flanigan.

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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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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. To be sure such ground truthing occurs, NSAC advocates dedicating a minimum amount or percentage of RCPP funds for the purpose of supporting State and Tribal Soil Health Programs.

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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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Farming Farming Manure Industrial Agriculture 81

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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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dairy workers are at risk of injury from contact with large animals, slipping on wet surfaces in milking parlors, falling into manure pits, and infection with H5N1 avian flu. Workers in large poultry-growing operations similarly face a growing risk of bird flu infection.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Another similarity is the welcome addition of regionally adapted cultivar and breed development, breeding for environmental resilience, and the addition of workforce training and development – including for meat and poultry processing – in the agriculture economics and rural communities priority area.

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The Equation

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dairy workers are at risk of injury from contact with large animals, slipping on wet surfaces in milking parlors, falling into manure pits, and infection with H5N1 avian flu. Workers in large poultry-growing operations similarly face a growing risk of bird flu infection.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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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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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. billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops.

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