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North Texas farmers say chemicals in fertilizer are killing their livestock. Elizabeth Campbell. August 29, 2024 at 7:00 AM. ... The farmers continue to raise their livestock, knowing they can’t ...
The steady increase in the age of farmers is not unique to Texas, and is part of a national trend — the 2017 agriculture census found the average age of all U.S. farm producers rose 1.2 years ...
U.S. farmers are increasing pressure on the Biden administration to allow vaccinations for chickens, turkeys and cows to protect them from bird flu infections that have devastated flocks for three ...
The plant employed 1,400 workers. Local public health officials announced that over 90 workers had tested positive for coronavirus, and one had died. Tyson executive Steve Stouffer said, "Unfortunately, the closure will mean reduced food supplies and presents problems to farmers who have no place to take their livestock.
Texas leads the nation in cattle, cotton, sheep and wool, goats and mohair and hay production. The Lone Star State also has the most farms and ranches and the highest value of farm real estate in the United States. A total of 127,036,184 acres (514,097.20 km 2) in Texas are occupied by the state's 248,416 farms and ranches. [2]
At the same time, mixed crop-livestock systems already produced over 90% of the global milk supply as of 2013, as well as 80% of ruminant meat, [43] yet they would bear the minority of the costs, and switching all pure livestock systems to mixed crop-livestock would decrease global agricultural costs from 3% to 0.3%, while switching half of ...
The number of white primary producers on Texas farms far outweighed Hispanic producers — 236,000 to 25,600. That makes the Serratos part of the 10% that is the exception.
As a result, there have been calls for phasing out subsidies currently offered to livestock farmers in many places worldwide, [82] and net zero transition plans now involve limits on total livestock headcounts, including substantial reductions of existing stocks in some countries with extensive animal agriculture sectors like Ireland. [83]