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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. 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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Precision Ag News 2/19

Agwired

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company focused on digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced an integration into MyCHS, the farmer-facing platform from CHS, Inc., Each year, the Alabama poultry industry produces two fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers worth of poultry litter, or about 3.6

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Animal Ag News 12/9

Agwired

Dairy farmers across 15 states can apply for considerable financial support to adopt climate-smart manure management practices through a new initiative aimed at enhancing soil health, increasing herd productivity and minimizing environmental impact. Poultry & Egg Association , was released today quantifying the U.S.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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Bird Flu May Be Driven By This Overlooked Factor

Civil Eats

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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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

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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Factory Farms Make Bad Neighbors. Folks Are Fighting Back

Modern Farmer

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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