Not exact matches
«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.
COHRAL (TM) technology — which is applicable to both
livestock and cropping
operations — uses concentrated anaerobic bacteria to digest 70 per cent of the organic matter (COD, or Chemical Oxygen demand) in Oakey Abattoir's waste water to
produce effluent of far high quality than typical open lagoons.
«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to
produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the
operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and
livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;
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.
These
operations generally attempt to maximize financial income from
produce or
livestock.
However, barn, silos,
livestock facilities or greenhouses no longer in use for a commercial
operation, used for storage, and outbuildings such as storage sheds are permitted if they are not used primarily for income
producing agricultural, farming or commercial enterprise
Most food in the US is now
produced on large - scale industrial crop and
livestock operations.
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.
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.