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Agricultural Land
This include beef cattle feedlots, dairy operations with confined feeding, large poultry farms, and hog feedlots. This does not ... cropland and pasture; orchards, groves, vineyards, nurseries and ornamental horticultural areas; confined feeding operations). This includes farmsteads, holdings for livestock such as corrals, breeding and training ...
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Saving to Farm
Spring Ridge Dairy is the first farm in Western North Carolina to be ... After a few years, he was looking to expand. “Small dairy operations, they just don’t generate enough income to cover overhead,” ... on the dairy slowed, but Moore kept busy. Finally, on June 22, 1998, the dairy’s doors opened. These days, farm operations are mostly ...
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ACTION ALERT: Contact Your Legislators Today & Tell Them to Stand Up for Strong Local Democracy
Both of these are important tools for sustainable family farm dairy operations, and dairy farmers who graze and do on-farm processing should get equal treatment. Rep. Greg ... know that pasture development and on-farm processing need to remain a part of the Dairy Investment Tax Credit (HF 2879/ SF 2862). For more details, see www.landstewardshipproject.org/pr ...
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ACTION ALERT: Day at the Capitol for Family Farms, Clean Water & Local Democracy Jan. 10
This is in reference to the fact that 96% ... dairy farms in Minnesota milk 200 cows or less. State legislative initiatives that focus primarily on promoting large-scale dairy operations ignore the critical needs of the overwhelming number of existing Minnesota dairy ...
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RANGE magazine.com - Summer 2003 - East Meets West
Bulk tank laws and economies of scale had hammered the dairy industry. Wall Street brokers bought farms and christened them with names ... names like Frog Hollow. Farms survived, but most were hobby operations with a handful of llamas or sheep. Farms capable of ... to 1,400 today. Many of the surviving farms are factory dairy operations. One inn boasted its interpretation of Vermont and once-remote ...
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Say No To GMOs! - October 2006
Dairy Marketing Services, which transports and markets milk for 8,000 dairy farms in the Northeast. This includes Dairylea and Dairy ... dairy farms in the state. Wickham estimated that in the Northeast about 60 percent of the milk that DMS markets was produced with rbST, mostly from larger operations ... have made it a regular part of their dairy operations. The bottom line is that rbST makes farmers ...
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Sustainable Agriculture Newsletter, Volume 8, Issue 11, November 2000
Dairy Grazing Operations? The research brief explores labor requirements on two dairy grazing operations from the SFS Project and compares them with the labor requirements of 22 other Minnesota grazing operations and 546 non-grazing dairy operations ... grants and educational endeavors. Wisconsin school for beginning dairy farmers Do you want to manage your dairy herd in a way that can: Cut ...
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EPA -- Section 319 Success Stories III
Results of the watershed investigation ... Dairy operations and manure management In 1994 there were 27 dairy facilities operating in the Buffalo River watershed. Recent financial difficulties have taken their toll on Arkansas dairy farmers, and today only 18 dairy ...
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Get Involved | Farm Sanctuary
People living near these factory dairy operations often report a multitude of health problems, including respiratory difficulties, as they are forced ... dairy farm proposed for Jo Daviess County will generate a massive amount of waste which can damage the aquifer and pollute surrounding rivers and streams. People living near factory dairy operations ...
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New Rules Project - Agriculture - Back the Dairy Compact - column by Stacy Mitchell
Wisconsin cheddar. These new dairies in the West are massive industrial operations. In Tulare County, California, the average farm has more than 1,200 cows ... Related Documents (Includes press items and industry responses) Northeast Dairy Compact Commission Southern Dairy Compact Dairy Industry: Estimated Economic Impacts of Dairy Compacts - US General Accounting Office, September 2001 " ...
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