Sentences with phrase «livestock operation levels»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

«I think this training will enhance and ensure accurate assessments at the team level as it relates to animals and livestock within our areas of operation,» Yates said.

We soon realized, however, that despite the deplorable conditions in puppy mills and periodic exposés (even Oprah did one), legislators at the state and federal level were reluctant to pass meaningful legislation to improve the conditions of commercial breeding operations because puppy mills fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and their state equivalents, and dogs in puppy mills are considered to be livestock, and animal welfare of any stripe is a much harder sell in those circles than it should be, sadly.

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.

But, we recognize that many household - level operations do not keep livestock or have sufficient space for rotational grazing.

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.