Sustainability
The final EIS will be available for public review for at least 30 days before USDA will publish a record of decision on how it will proceed.
Bill Donald loves having his sons and young grandson on the ranch with him.
With increasing demands for specialized meat, small processing plants have the opportunity to fill profitable niche markets.
At Wheat College, our agronomic team will present lessons you can take directly to the field.
This conventional grain producer goes organic for better returns.
To bee or not to bee is not the question. How to attract natural pollinators is and a new program aimed at luring back our working insects might be an answer.
A properly equipped and maintained planter makes the difference between success and failure
Sustainability: feeding the world with the resources available.
Jerry Jennissen has proven that you can benefit from a methane digester even when you milk 150 cows.
In 2007, Cargill’s Environmental Finance Group began building a plug-flow digester on Bettencourt Farms’ new Dry Creek Dairy, a 10,000-cow operation near Murtaugh, Idaho. Since going online in September 2008, the 5-million-gallon digester has generated electricity for the Idaho grid, reduced manure odor, cut manure handling costs and produced digester solids for the dairy’s bedding.
One trip to look at an anaerobic digester on a dairy in central Minnesota was all it took to convince Lee Jensen that the technology would be a good fit for his 900-cow Five Star Dairy near Elk Mound, Wis.
Forage quality also contributes to an operation’s carbon footprint. We put significant research into selecting hybrids that give us good tonnage as well as high digestibility. If we can maximize forage digestibility, the cows will more efficiently turn nutrients into milk.
Preplanning makes variable-rate technology cheaper and easier to manage for application of nitrogen and seed
Today’s technology has greatly improved our ability to decrease our carbon footprint. As stewards of the land, farmers care more for the environment than anyone else in the world. We make our living off of the land; why wouldn’t we take care of it?
Carbon emissions and going green definitely seem to be tied to everything these days and dairy farms are in the thick of the debate. Agriculture as a whole has always been at the forefront of efficiency and maximizing productivity to survive. The economic challenges of this past year have put any and all inefficiencies and wasteful practices under a microscope.
I attended the Sustainability Summit for U.S. Dairy in June 2008, put on by Dairy Management Inc. The topic was reducing the carbon footprint of the U.S. dairy industry.
Ukrainians see their agricultural industry flexing its muscles, evolving out of the old inefficient collective farms left when the Soviet system collapsed in 1991.
No-Till Savings, No-Till Grows in Indiana, Satellites Track Conservation Tillage Trends
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