Sentences with phrase «small feeding operation»
Today I still do some custom farming on the side, but I mostly run my own farm and small feeding operation.
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Here in a heartland of U.S. agriculture, a growing number of farmers are spraying manure produced by animal feeding operations — which can raise thousands of animals on relatively small plots of land — across vast swaths of cropland.
Although, as consumer awareness is increasing about the benefits of grass - fed dairy in the US, I've noticed that more and more US brands are offering grass - fed yogurt, cheeses, butter, cream, and kefir from small family farm operations that truly allow the cows to freely roam and forage on grass and herbs.
Interestingly, big juice companies like Minute Maid and Tropicana get around the waste problem by drying orange peels for animal feed, but they are able to do it on a scale that's not feasible for small juicing operations.
Some states include smaller farms in their animal feeding operations programs depending on past performance or other site conditions.
The latest issue of O Magazine features an eight - page spread about Lynn Henning's heroic battle against CAFOs — concentrated animal feeding operations that hold thousands of animals in small, confined spaces.
The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of small pasture - based dairies have disappeared, their production replaced by CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)-- crowded industrial facilities that use methods linked to a variety of health and environmental problems, from antibiotic resistance to «dead zones» in coastal waterways.
I've reviewed dozens of law firm Twitter accounts, some owned by global giants and some by midsize or smaller operations, and in almost every instance I've come away shaking my head... A good law firm Twitter feed keeps two things in mind: (1) it's all about the clients, and (2) it's not all about the firm» -LSB-...]
A few weeks ago I woke up on a Saturday to a small explosion on my Twitter feed (when you write on an arcane topic like legal operations, small explosions seem significant).