Sentences with phrase «as livestock manure»

Besides non-renewable reserves, alternative phosphate resources include municipal wastewater and agricultural organic residues such as livestock manure or digestate from biogas plants.

Not exact matches

It is aimed at helping large livestock farmers make sure there is proper management and storage of nutrients, such as manure.

«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.

The destruction of healthy soil by compaction, overgrazing and toxic levels of manure that poison the earth and emit climate - warming methane are some of the reasons raising livestock has traditionally been discouraged as an environmentally conscious farming technique.

As for Mercola and his marketing, I think that if his clinical outcomes supported the idea that everyone should be on a raw, vegan diet, he would simply sell blenders, dehydrators, ceramic knives and advertise for CSA's and import the best of the best superfoods like David Wolfe and others, and convince ranchers to raise livestock for the purpose of selling high quality manure and ecofriendly - harvested seaweeds so we can all grow our own food in healthy soil.

As for the output, 1.6 million tons of livestock manure pollutes our drinking water.

Topics for consideration included but were not limited to: a) Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in - session workshops; b) Methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience; c) Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under grassland and cropland as well as integrated systems, including water management; d) Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient agricultural systems; e) Improved livestock management systems; f) Socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector.

I, for one, have always been against turning food crops into biofuel right from the get - go, tho I've always thought ag wastes make good candidates, such as manure, which otherwise pollutes localities near industrial livestock farms.

(Land use changes, such as deforestation and desertification caused by over-pasturing livestock or growing feed crops, account for another 35.4 %, while manure accounts for 30.5 %).

But livestock manure also produces methane as it decomposes in closed - air containers known as lagoons, which factory farming operations often use to store the massive amounts of manure produced by their farms.

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.