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Throw Some Shade: Protecting Livestock from Heat Stress

ATTRA

If you don’t have perfectly placed trees throughout your paddocks, you can use portable shade structures that you rotate along with your portable mineral feeder and water tanks when you move your livestock to fresh pastures. Photo: Lee Rinehart, NCAT And we can’t forget poultry! Early morning is best. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Strengthening Local Processing Act – Critical Reasons for Support in the Farm Bill

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Examples of these investments are the Meat and Poultry Programs (MP programs), such as the Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG), Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) and Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which have helped smaller plants scale up or prepare themselves for federal inspection utilizing different sized grants and loans.

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Providing Water to Livestock in Frigid Weather

ATTRA

Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs. This waterer provided frost-free water for the cull ewes on pasture this past week with wind chill temperatures in the 30-below-and-worse range. We have a group of doelings in another pasture and we put a heated bucket there. Heated poultry waterer and heated bucket.

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Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

The Equation

Last fall, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and more than 150 other organizations, including nutrition, sustainable farming, rural development, racial equity, labor, and environmental groups, sent a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to prod Congress to pass a new farm bill this year that transforms the US food system.

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