Archive for June, 2012
New CFO and CAFO Rules Mean Operational Changes
Thursday, June 28th, 2012Last fall, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved revised rules that altered the environmental management requirements of confined feeding operations, called CFOs, and concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs. Indiana defines a CFO as “any animal feeding operation engaged in the confined feeding [...]
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Miratorg announces large pig farm in Russian Kursk
Thursday, June 21st, 2012Russian agricultural holding Miratorg, currently the largest pork producer in the country, has recently announced plans to open a pig farm Pristensky in the Kursk region near the end of 2012. The total worth of the complex is estimated to cost up to 6.25 billion rubles (US$205 mln).
The farm will consist [...]Leia mais
Government, Business Leaders Call on G20 and Rio+20: Worldwide Recession and Climate Change Share One Clean Solution
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18, 2012 /PR Newswire/ — Tony Blair and a group of international statesmen and business leaders today said that a ‘clean revolution’ – a step change in investment in renewable energy and clean technology – was needed to lead the world out of recession.
In an open letter, [...]Leia mais
Project launches to measure and manage GHG emissions for agriculture in Brazil
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012RIO DE JANEIRO — The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the British Embassy are launching a two year partnership to measure corporate and farm-level emissions in Brazil. Agricultural emissions account for nearly 20 percent of Brazil’s emissions, with agricultural production on the rise. The project, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, [...]
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Strict Rules Limit Farm Size
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012In 2003, the US Environmental Protection Agency strengthened Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) regulations governing the handling and application of manure by livestock operations. An important and unchanging feature of these CWA regulations is that operations confining more than a specific number of livestock face more stringent rules. In recent [...]
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Dairy Wastewater Affects Aquatic Animals
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012The study, led by scientists at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, is the first to document the unusual behavior of estrogens in wastewater lagoons. The study appears in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Just as new mothers undergo hormonal changes that enable them to breastfeed, lactating cows generate estrogenic hormones that [...]Leia mais
Environmental and Food Safety Pressures on China’s Pig Industry
Thursday, June 7th, 2012According to Wang et al (2006), one Chinese hog produces 5.3kg of waste daily, which contains large amounts of nutrients not absorbed by the animal as well as heavy metals and pharmaceutical residues. During the 1950s and 1960s, Chinese officials encouraged individual households to raise hogs as [...]
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Forum to debate new scientific agenda related to RIO+20
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012The international scientific community has already determined that after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20), it will be necessary to establish a research and technology agenda and inaugurate a new relationship between science and society.
The path to this goal will be defined during the week preceding RIO+20 at the [...]Leia mais
Perfecting enzyme cocktails is the path to cellulosic ethanol
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012New scientific advances have made cellulosic ethanol production a reality, but more focused research is needed to make it economically viable on an industrial scale.
The shortest path to achieving this goal is to intensify studies to perfect the enzyme cocktails that are used to degrade the cell walls of [...]Leia mais
Largest pig complex in Russia to be constructed
Friday, June 1st, 2012Agro-industrial holding Bio-tone has announced plans to begin construction of a large pork production complex in September in Russia with the total investment amount of 18 billion roubles (US$ 510 million).
The new complex will produce 96 thousands tonnes of pork per year. The pig houses will be designed for 480 thousands pigs [...]Leia mais