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Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add Up

Modern Farmer

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. He shows poultry farmers how to build feeders, shelters, feed storage containers, transports and coolers at an affordable price. “I

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Do You Need Starter Fertilizer with Organic Nitrogen?

Cropaia

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. However, unlike synthetic fertilizers that provide readily available nitrogen, the nitrogen in organic fertilizers is released gradually through biological processes.

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Biochar Is Key to Cascading Benefits in Innovative Carbon Chicken Project

ATTRA

Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. To contend with these issues, the project composts the poultry litter and combines it with biochar made from forest and sawmill waste and poultry litter.

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

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 counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Civil Eats

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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Everything to Know about the Biotone Fertiliser

Kavya Organic Farm

This process constructs a healthy and wider root system for the plant, thus making it stronger. Water absorption and its utilisation is a major advantage of this process as well, which benefits the biotone fertiliser. This makes it like a decomposed organic matter which is good for biotone fertiliser.

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

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 counties’ pollution comes from food processing companies in the Port of Morrow.