Sentences with phrase «many livestock operations»

Additionally, there is a decrease in the number of livestock operations.

At Rodale Institute, Ross is responsible for field maintenance including planting and seeding, maintaining the farm equipment necessary to work the fields, and expanding the livestock operations, particularly the vertical integration of the poultry and hog operations into crop rotations.

The billionaire Mr Harvey is not the only one enthusiastic about agriculture's future with billionaires such as Gina Rinehart, Brett Blundy and Andrew Forrest all investing in livestock operations around Australia.

He sells his products direct to consumer, processors, and livestock operations, and through grain brokers.

«Many livestock operations in Queensland also hold certification for export markets such as the United State's NOP.

A dairy association is has filed a lawsuit alleging the state Department of Natural Resources is over-regulating large livestock operations.

«Mallee Park piggery is a quality intensive livestock operation boasting a very good supply contract with one of Australia's major supermarket chains,» said Colliers International's Jesse Manuel, who negotiated the sale alongside colleague Tim Altschwager.

In general, it is easier to convert dairy farms profitably than intensive livestock operations.

Specifically, they have found unnaturally high levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sediments where the river comes into contact with treated municipal wastewater effluent and farm irrigation runoff as it flows 126 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park through Fort Collins and across Colorado's eastern plain, home to some of the country's most densely packed livestock operations.

While livestock operations are an obvious source of antibiotic resistance, humans also take a lot of antibiotics — and their waste is another contamination stream.

Wright suspects that the antibiotic - drenched environment of commercial livestock operations is prime ground for such transfer.

And they're easier on the environment than large - scale livestock operations.

The institute's own data testify to the magnitude of antibiotic use in livestock operations, however.

The major culprits are the nitrous oxide that comes from the manure created by large livestock operations, and the methane emitted in cow burps and farts.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

At the federal level, budget bills have prohibited the regulation of greenhouse gasses from large livestock operations since 2009.

Examples of mechanisms and patterns, summarized below, help explain why there is such variability, and also reveal the avenues for building resilience in livestock operations to help mitigate animal stress.

30 - 40 years ago people working heavy duty jobs like building constructions, agricultural works, livestock operations for 7/365 days, 12 or 14 hours per day carrying heavy weight loads or working in the sun, and finally during the brake they ate little bread, onions, tomatoes and a few olives, or a cup of soup and that's it for the day.

One of them comes from animal husbandry or industrial livestock operations more accurately.

My career puts me on all kinds of farms planning livestock operations and conservation practices.

Borrower must establish an expected shortfall in the amount of feed needed to sustain existing breeding livestock and backgrounding livestock operation levels to be eligible.

Biofuels PACE buys down the interest rate on loans to biodiesel and ethanol production facilities and livestock operations.

Biofuels PACE Program provides interest buydown on loans to biodiesel, ethanol or green diesel production facilities and livestock operations.

Beef cow - calf herds are the most common livestock operation in Western Canada.

CAFOs are industrial - sized livestock operations in which hundreds or even thousands of farm animals are typically confined in extremely cramped quarters 24/7; the animals never see the light of day or receive more than a minimal amount of care, and they are frequently subjected to abusive practices.

As quoted in the Winona Post (12/20/15) and credited to statements made by the MN Board of Animal Health: «The MN Board of Animal Health regulates the treatment and health of livestock and explained that under state law dog kennels are treated similary to livestock operations.»

The United States has trimmed excess fertilizer use since a peak in the 1990's, the scientists write, but runoff and releases from livestock operations still create big water problems, most notably the Gulf of Mexico «dead zone» resulting from nutrients washing from fields and livestock around the Mississippi River watershed.

The study, combining ground and aerial sampling of the gas with computer modeling, is the most comprehensive «top down» look so far at methane levels over the United States, providing a vital check on «bottom up» approaches, which have tallied estimates for releases from a host of sources — ranging from livestock operations to gas wells.

The overuse of antibiotics in livestock operations can lead to antibiotic - resistant bacteria, threatening both human and animal health.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

Organic farms mitigate such problems by on - farm or cooperative use of farmyard manure between crop and livestock operations (El - Hage Scialabba and Müller - Lindenlauf 2010).

«Ranchers in the Dakotas and Montana are looking for ways to keep their livestock operations viable,» said Steve Adair, director of DU's Great Plains Region.

Most food in the US is now produced on large - scale industrial crop and livestock operations.

The cost of disposal for the livestock operation and the value of manure in crop production become significant in the economic assessment of this problem.

This is strange because, as Miles McEvoy, head of the National Organic Program at the USDA, pointed out, the grazing requirement is «a critical compliance component of an organic livestock operation.»

In 2014, the California Senate mandated that the state's Air Resources Board (ARB) come up with a plan to regulate methane from livestock operations.

Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat - trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills.

In the nation's largest milk - producing state, the new law aims to reduce methane emissions from dairies and livestock operations to 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030, McCarthy said.

With increased ethanol obligations and growing livestock operations needing more feed, Iowa — the nation's «king of corn production» — will have to import kernels to keep up with demand, an analyst tells the newspaper.

And as the chicken manure example described above illustrates, biochar could also help dispose of the large amounts of manure currently generated by poultry and livestock operations.

Farm and ranch insurance protects you, your home and your agricultural or livestock operation.

I possess hands - on knowledge working with animals at both the OSU Horse Center and my family's beef livestock operation.

Further east, cash crops and livestock operations are popular in parts of Ontario and Nova Scotia is seeing a growth in the number of vineyards.

Not exact matches

The company has since introduced an animal welfare policy across its global operations — a move that Saputo says he hopes will enable them to assume a «leadership role» in more humane treatment of livestock.)

In an effort to improve his farming operation, he diligently experimented with new crops, fertilizers, crop rotation, tools, and livestock breeding.

On our certified organic farm, we have a diverse operation including compost, livestock, vegetables production, compost, greenhouses, small grains, gardens and 1100 certified organic apple trees.

(a) The Administrator shall accredit a qualified domestic or foreign applicant in the areas of crops, livestock, wild crops, or handling or any combination thereof to certify a domestic or foreign production or handling operation as a certified operation.

More than 500 organic operations, from organic fruit and vegetable growers, grains and oilseed farmers, livestock and poultry producers, dairy farmers, organic processors, and food makers across 45 states, participated in a comprehensive farm bill survey conducted by the Organic Trade Association.

«We work hard every day to improve our operations, increase our efficiencies, responsibly source livestock and poultry and partner with our customers and the industry to meet this challenge in a responsible, sustainable manner,» he adds.

«This commitment is at the heart of our operations and our supply chain management, and is evident in every aspect of our business, from raw material procurement — including livestock and produce — to our restaurant food preparation and delivery.