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USDA-NRCS encourages continued application for California’s confined animal operation initiative
California State Conservationist
Lincoln “Ed” Burton for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) has announced that livestock and dairy producers should continue
to apply for the California Confined Animal Operation Initiative.
USDA awards more than $18 million in research grants
US Agriculture Secretary Mike
Johanns has announced that 131 small businesses have received Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $18.9
million from the USDA.
US and partners to move ahead with greenhouse gas reductions with methane program
United States government officials
and their counterparts in 16 countries committed to accelerated action
to recover and use methane as a clean energy source at the recent
annual Methane to Markets Partnership meeting.
Manure saves dairy farmers money
It might not smell like gold, but cow manure may be almost as valuable to savvy dairy farmers.
Dairies profit from greenhouse gas market
Dairy farmers in two states made
history in November when they received their first payments for “carbon
credits,” representing greenhouse gas reductions from their farms.
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