Far Eastern Agriculture

MAY 5, 2024

There is an inlet for cow dung and other organic waste and liquids, which during the decaying process, produce methane. Even the slurry of the remaining manure serves as a high-quality fertiliser replacing chemicals and any excess can also be sold on to other farmers.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A few days after moving in, concerned neighbors informed her that Ledgeview Farms, a large dairy farm behind her home, was planning to expand, which included building a manure pit to store millions of gallons of waste next to the subdivision. Over the next several years, Porter began noticing manure runoff in the creek her kids would play in.

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

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 23, 2024

The process also takes a significant amount of photosynthetic energy, which is then not available for other important physiological processes. 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.

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ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Periodic mowing keeps it under control and adds a green manure mulch to the crops. He found that undersowing the clover was an amazing way to get the field covered by harvest. Send me a note at lee@ncat.org to share your ideas.

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CalCAN

MAY 17, 2023

Last Friday Governor Newsom’s office released the May Revise, a part of the annual state budget process which updates the governor’s economic and revenue outlook. With the state facing significant economic uncertainty and a worsening deficit now projected at $31.5

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The New Earth Project is developing compost processes to create a symbiotic relationship and benefit the community. 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.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, farmers across the US and Canada end up burning, burying or stockpiling their wool because processing it is expensive and seen as not worth the time and labor required. As she undertook the cumbersome process of cleaning the wool, Maksymiuk realized she would end up with a lot of unusable material.

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Processing Fertilizer Nutrient Pollution Ranching 124

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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 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.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 122

Food Tank

JUNE 18, 2024

Plant-forward menus, which offer fiber-rich vegetarian dishes and plant-based proteins alongside animal-based foods, have a significantly lower environmental footprint when it comes to greenhouse gases, water and land use, manure pollution, and harm to wildlife and native habitats.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you have them on a carbonaceous diaper (I describe this in detail in the book) they won’t smell and their manure will turn into wonderful compost for your house plants. Obviously, the dehydrating makes everything lighter for shipping, but is this really an ecological process? And you should have house plants.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2024

But you have to understand the principles of soil health, and the four ecosystem processes, in order to achieve that outcome. It’s important to understand that this process is ALWAYS and ONLY accomplished biologically. The manure, urine, saliva, etc. God designed the world to function as a perpetual motion machine.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It is important to note that the plants will produce far less root exudates if they are being fed routinely with applied fertilizers and manures. There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. If the soil microbes are not fed, then they (i.e.,

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Manure Soil Compaction Crop Mechanics 115

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

There are some restrictions on timing and amount of manure and/or nitrogen application in some locations, but enforcement is minimal and the 4Rs are voluntary. We already do this for pesticide and manure applicators. To start with, everyone in agriculture must understand soil function and ecosystem processes.

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Pesticide Manure Agriculture Agriculture 87

Farmbrite

MARCH 14, 2023

However, the GAP certification process can be daunting and overwhelming. If you learn how to prepare it will make the process seamless, save you money and be successful. If you adopt good agricultural practices, you can go through the voluntary auditing process for verification. You need to prepare in terms of the following; 1.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

It is a stable form of charcoal created by heating organic materials, such as crop residues, wood chips, and manure, in the absence of oxygen. This process converts biomass into biochar while capturing carbon that would otherwise be released as carbon dioxide (CO2) during decomposition.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 67

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Outline of data collected: Soil – Physical, chemical and biological characteristics Plants – Diversity, phytonutrient profile, everything the animals were observed eating Fecal Matter – Collecting samples from fresh manure patties End Product – Grass-fed beef compared to conventional feedlot beef Human Clinical Trials What are Phytonutrients?

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Grain Manure Processing Production 52

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We take herbivores that are supposed to eat forages and wrap them in feedlots that require planting, harvesting, transporting feed in and manure out, drugs, and lawyers to protect from nuisance suits, not to mention superbugs and toxin buildup in eaters. Manure lagoons aren't safe. Nowhere do I see safety as a goal.

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Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

” One of the advantages Hillebo likes to see when he adopts new technology is in the decision making process. By using cover crops, no-till, and manure instead of synthetics. So in layman’s terms, getting more with less is really how I view technology.” How do we do it?

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Plants welcome me in their leafy grace, As part of a process, essential to embrace. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. The same process is happening everywhere that plants grow. Did you spot the missing arrow?

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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. These crops are also the largest consumer of increasingly scarce river water in the Western United States.

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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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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

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The national program helps small and mid-sized dairy producers squeeze more value out of milk by diversifying their products and markets, reducing waste, and innovating packaging and processing. As the last DBII to be established, in 2019, the region has received significantly less funding, so it has only focused on dairy processing.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, some of these processes are natural—but healthy soils have the resiliency to resist excess erosion, whereas degraded soils are more vulnerable to even natural climatic cycles. Soil erosion specifically refers to the removal of topsoil from the land’s surface, which can be caused by factors like water, wind, and tillage.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

‘There’s No One Size Fits All’ — Adapting Regenerative Practices to Land/Climate As Jenny and James moved their operation from family land to the potato field in Sturgeon County, they applied the same organic management and practices they’d previously relied on, including cover cropping with green manures.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

To help explain the complex calculations behind measuring a farm or field’s carbon footprint, we’ve summarized some of these tools and processes below. A third party verifies all these processes to ensure reporting meets GHG Protocol, SEC, SBTi, the Gold Standard, and Verra requirements and that the data can be trusted and relied upon.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

In eight to 12 weeks, farmers can take the birds to the small-scale processing plant that the RAA runs in Northern Iowa. They’re also working on adding a composting processing site, neighbor approval pending. “We That first year, the small staff processed 1,000 chickens.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans. Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives.

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Food Fertilizer Crop Rotation Agroecology 64

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Once the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, many chemicals and toxins that had flowed freely from paper mills into Maine’s rivers started to be processed through sewage plants. Others have been able to relieve the problem through water treatments and removal of affected hay and manure. The sources of contamination were numerous.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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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. And because the fresh fluid is costly to transport, dairy processing is highly regional, says Sumner.

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CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

The Alternative Manure Management Program ( AMMP ) that reduces methane emissions on dairy and livestock operations includes no funding at all for 2023-24. The budget includes no funding at all for FY 2023-24. That leaves $48 available and not yet awarded.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

At CAFOs, it is common to pool animal waste in one spot, called a manure lagoon. Anaerobic digestion creates a mixture of gases, which can be used for electricity or further processed into fuel for vehicles. Expanding manure biogas production was listed as a key way to reduce methane emissions in the agriculture sector.

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