Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2024

Short of that, Cirino advises looking for places where you can buy food that’s simply unwrapped, such as farmers markets and grocery stores that carry products loose or wrapped in paper. Support legislation Local and state-level laws such as plastic straw and plastic bag bans have proliferated over the last decade.

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Manufacturing Food Straw Production 117

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. Composters are not able to market finished compost as an input to organic agriculture if they accept compostable packaging as a feedstock.”states

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

The Biodegradable Products Institute , which sets standards for such bags, stopped certifying pet bags for the US market for that reason. “Our Canadian markets purchase hundreds of thousands monthly, but most of the Canadian composters accept pet waste.” So, why do we recycle sewage sludge in the US but not dog poop?

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Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer 130

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

David narrowed his eyes beneath his wide-brimmed straw hat and scanned the plain of yellow esparto waving in the hot wind. I asked about internal markets for wool and was told there were none. We’ve had 16 sheep killed by wolves so far this year.”

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Arable Land Straw Marketing Manure 98

Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Fiber-rich ingredients include hay, straw, and silage. Limestone and Dicalcium Phosphate 1% For calcium Finisher Feed (6 Weeks to Market Weight) Corn 65% Energy source for rapid growth. Weaners (young pigs) require more protein to support rapid growth, while finishers (pigs ready for market) need more energy to add layers of fat.

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Livestock Grain Cattle Production 94

Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

In chicken, the four biggest companies —Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride (owned by JBS), Wayne-Sanderson Farms, and Mountaire—control more than half of the market. After Tyson reversed course, the Perdue marketing team jumped on the opportunity to highlight the fact that they weren’t backtracking on antibiotics.

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Production Poultry Food Farming 144

Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? They increase the depth of the roots and the water intake and volume. Phosphorus is responsible for this, and it also allows for better seed growth. This means that there’s 10% of Nitrogen (N), 10% Phosphorus (P), and 10% Potassium (K).

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Manure Compost Straw Fertilizer 98

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Permanent pastures are very biodiverse and a habitat for many different species In July, I was in Ridsdale, a village about 20km north of the market town of Hexham in Northumberland and visited four tenant farmers. Walton also spends £15,000 on straw and he has to pay £20,000 in land rent. Lambing season starts in April.

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Pasture Straw Farming Farming 69

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

He notes that farmers are then subject to the whims of a global market, which tends to skyrocket in price during geopolitical conflicts. It is always covered with straw, leaf mold, or wood chips,” says Leah Penniman, the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. “We Photo credit: Adam Cobb) “We never leave our soil bare.

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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

Modern Farmer

JULY 22, 2024

That was the last straw for Owczarski. Our next phase is officially becoming a nonprofit because we are volunteer run and creating a mobile grocery that can shuttle around Albany, travel to all of our fridge locations and serve as a pop-up at farmers markets and food justice organizations,” says Anderson. Jammella Anderson.

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Food Farming Farming Distribution 93

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

His parents had opened a farm shop and restaurant in 1990 to directly market the fruit and vegetables the farm produced, and Simkin felt that adding a butchery would make financial sense. Every Thursday, a group of 20 to 25 is transported in a trailer with thick straw bedding to a small abattoir which is just over six miles away.

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Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Those crops, which are staples of farmers’ markets throughout the summer, are also profitable for farmers. The final straw for Hachmyer was losing half of her crops in 2021 to drought. This year, after a decade of farming, the Burgers decided not to sell at a summer farmers’ market. I couldn’t keep martyring myself.”

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

If a strong local fiber economy existed, growers could find markets for all their fiber, she says. Cotton growing at Viriditas Farm, where rotational crops like heirloom Sonora wheat bolster root material and straw to build soil organic matter with each crop year. Less than one percent of cotton grown in the US is organic.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 116

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed. Beth Hoinacki at the farmer’s market. We get everything possible from organic or biodynamic sources, Goess-Enzenberg says. Photography submitted.

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Farming Farming Construction Harvest 63

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. The potential market is assumed to relate especially to those farmers who wish to reduce their dependence on expensive synthetic fertilisers.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. cattle is primarily sold regionally at farmers’ markets, through meat shares, and in restaurants. How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. In the 20 years of filling the market table, the earnings have at best balanced the ledger. Become a savvy marketer. I remember a warm summer day, the sun casting shadows of cornstalks on freshly tilled humic soil.

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Farming Farming Meadow Compost 40

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And two, even before the IRA passed, market forces were setting clean energy on a path to replace fossil fuels. In some states, like Florida and California , many prominent companies have fled the market altogether. More climate-ambitious states are already layering on their own monetary incentives to decarbonize. grocery store prices.

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Food Production Greenhouse Construction 51