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

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 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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

The exporter immediately notified the importer who closed down the slaughter operation for Australian sheep and the offending livestock attendants in the video were identified, removed from the job site and reprimanded.

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.

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.

The findings also call into question other suggestions for using titanium dioxide for environmental remediation — for example, to remove odor - causing organic compounds from emissions produced by confined livestock feeding operations.

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

These operations generally attempt to maximize financial income from produce or livestock.

Not only are antibiotics overused in medicine, the vast majority of these drugs enter you via livestock — you consume antibiotics every time you eat meat from an animal raised in a confined animal feeding operation (CAFO).

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

At the very least, most people are consuming far too much poor - quality protein, such as beef and animal products from livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

Milling Meta Co was then a small - scale livestock and dog food producer, but the Schell's and Kampeter's have since expanded the operation, growing from one small plant servicing rural Missouri to a national business with at least five manufacturing facilities around the country.

From there they branched out into optimum nutrition for normal dogs (unlike other companies that started as livestock feed operations, branching out into pet foods; we're talking 1981, remember).

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

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.