UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Once a hardpan is penetrated by hyphae, they create a pathway for plant roots to follow and provide the glomalin to kickstart the aggregation process. Farms applying liquid livestock manure with tankers have a particularly challenging situation. Try to always apply manure to a living crop.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic mushroom farming involves growing mushrooms using organic substrates like composted manure, straw, or sawdust. The process emphasizes natural growing conditions to ensure healthy,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Mushroom Farming

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

Factory farming is a colloquial term, one meant to evoke the mechanized and impersonal nature of the process—although the phrase itself is somewhat vague. Many of these issues can be boiled down to the fact that these operations produce a lot of manure in one place. How big of an operation are we talking about, and why is it a problem?

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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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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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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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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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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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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

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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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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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

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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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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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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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process. Their manure stayed at the pumpkin-pie consistency we wanted to see as an indication of a balanced ration, even through the flush of spring growth. The acreage lasted 65 cows for almost two months of grazing in the spring.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The projects funded in this announcement include a California facility to process manure from dairy cows by using vermifilitering techniques and expansion of a biosolid fertilizer composter in Georgia.

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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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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. There is a long history of industry, food processing and municipalities using agricultural land as a place to get rid of their wastes.”

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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Drop Bear takes care of some of their energy needs with solar panels and uses excess heat generated during the brewing process to warm their buildings. Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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. Thats according to Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain project leaders.

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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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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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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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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons. This story was published in partnership with Grist. Water washes waste down a concrete alley at a farm plant near Merced, California.

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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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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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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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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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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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