Sentences with phrase «of livestock operations»

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

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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.)

(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.

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.

«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.

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

The Department declined to comment on Labor's criticism while the Australian Livestock Exporters» Council (ALEC) said on Twitter improvements to its operations were being trialled while the facility remained closed, ahead of an audit in the coming days.

The Department declined to comment on Labor's criticism while the Australian Livestock Exporters» Council said on Twitter improvements to its operations were being trialled while the facility remained closed, ahead of an audit in the coming days.

«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.

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.

At the heart of the sanctuary is a working farm with both livestock and crops operations.

«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 operation happened just as soldiers in the North West prosecuting the battle against cattle rustling, banditry and criminality under operation Sharan Daji, recovered a total of 1, 304 livestock and arrested 15 Cattle rustlers.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

Accordingly, the Guggenheims began to develop large mining operations in Northern Mexico, Harrimans built railroads, Morgans, Hearsts, and Whitneys developed enormous livestock ranches, and so on, employing thousands of Mexican citizens until, inevitably, the revolution moved northward.

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.

Ag PACE provides interest buydown on loans to farmers who invest in nontraditional agriculture activities that supplement farm income such as purchase of equipment and facilities, equity shares of an ag - processing business, irrigation equipment, capital improvements to a livestock feedlot, dairy operation or subsurface field tiling projects.

We believe having the diagnostics at the area of point of care, whether that's in clinic or in operation in the livestock setting that can help identify the pathogen, the disease or manifestation that allows a veterinarian to tailor the right treatment for the right pathogen at the right time is clearly a complementary extension to our core business in biologicals and pharmaceuticals.

For centuries canine companions have worked alongside people helping to muster livestock making a hard day much easier; they are an essential part of many farming operations throughout locations like the Australian outback.

«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.

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.»

Ranchers used Middle Anacapa for the main headquarters of their sheep operations and the livestock were landed on the northwest side of the island.

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.

Related In case you missed it, Jedediah Purdy, a Duke law professor and writer, proposed that slaughterhouses and industrial - scale livestock feeding operations should stream video of their operations to obviate the need for secretive filming operations by animal welfare campaigners or journalists.

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.

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.

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.

The increased specialization of farming operations resulting in more large livestock enterprises and fewer mixed farming operations creates a break in the link between livestock and crop production.

Landfills were the major source of CH4 and accounted for about 38 % of total emissions of about 3.7 Mt.. Other major sources of CH4 were: oil and gas operations 29 %, livestock 27 %, coal mining 4 %, and miscellaneous 1 %.

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.»

It is interesting that the first reaction to livestock abuse and the environmental impact of concentrated animal farming operations is to go vegetarian.

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.

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.

This higher concentration of CAFO animals leads to a higher concentration of animal waste, a problem that holds true for all types of livestock raised in these operations.