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Eco-efficient Crop & Livestock Production for Nicaraguan Farmers
2015-03-05 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For Roberto Pineda, a smallholder farmer in the Somotillo municipality of Nicaragua, his traditional practice after each harvest was to cut down and burn all crop residues on his land, a practice known as "slash-and-burn" agriculture. A widespread practice on these sub-humid hillsides of Central America, it was nonetheless causing many negative environmental implications, including poor soil quality, erosion, nutrient leaching, and the loss of ecosystem diversity. Slash-and-burn allows farmers...
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Hord Livestock takes biosecurity seriously
2015-02-26 23:37:00| National Hog Farmer
Time is money, and time spent in the name of biosecurity is worth every penny. For Hord Livestock, biosecurity is serious business. The hog and cattle operation near Bucyrus, Ohio, beefed up its biosecurity 10 years ago when porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome hit, and that extra effort is paying off today. read more
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Lack of Workers Impacts Livestock Sector Profitability
2015-02-24 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The Canadian Meat Council warns the inability of Canadian meat processing plants to access workers jeopardizes the viability of the plants, the profitability of livestock producers, and existing jobs at those plants.
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Farmers Warned to Take Special Care of Livestock During Heatwave
2015-02-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AUSTRALIA - Livestock owners are reminded to take special care of their stock over the next few days of high temperatures as animals suffer from the heat as well.
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Environmental lawsuits could force livestock industry changes
2015-02-21 22:10:41| Livestock - Topix.net
A lawsuit to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ammonia and other emissions from livestock operations could force major changes to the Kansas livestock industry, if it succeeds. The Environmental Integrity Project; Humane Society of the United States; Center for Food Safety; Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment; Friends of the Earth; Sierra Club; and groups from Wisconsin, California and Iowa who claim nearby animal operations have caused them to have breathing problems filed two lawsuits against the EPA in late January.
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