Poultry farming

As the world is estimated to nearly double to nine billion people by the year 2050, farmers will need to increase their efforts to continue to feed the world. Several challenges already plague famers like being careful with the use of water, plant diseases, available land and insect and pest control. Also, organic farmers are held under strict laws and new rules are created each year to ensure the product is extremely organic. DuPont Crop Protection hired Exponent Public Relations to help with…

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or also known as CAFO’s are another cause for the contamination of water. CAFO’s are giant livestock farms where thousands of chicken and cows are housed into small confinements and live in horrible conditions. When so many animals are stored in a limited space manure will become a problem for the farm, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, “CAFOs produce some 300 million tons of untreated manure each year (about twice as much as is generated by…

Organic Foods Over the past few decades, a strong debate has ensued on the topic of the production of organic foods. Both sides in this argument are adamant and present strong facts. The pro-organic food side argues that they use little to no chemicals in any of their products, that they use traditional methods such as crop rotation to keep the earth fresh and avoid overuse, that the foods are free of genetically modified ingredients, that their produce is healthier, and that organic livestock…

Nutrition is a wonderful playground for people who want to stay healthy. We need food to live, yet can be poisoned by eating the wrong food. Learning from others to know which foods are safe and which are dangerous is essential for our health. We make food choices everyday and are one of the few things we can control as individuals. The question is can we improve our health by consuming organic food? In the article “The Pros and Cons of Organic Food” by Mandy Ferreyra claims that organic food…

It is grown with a focus on respect: respect for the environment, respect for the farmer, and respect for consumer. Adam Westaway, a British dairy farmer, describes organic farming as “about the ethos and way of life. It’s producing a product you believe in, that you don’t forget about when it leaves the farm gate” (“The Problems Faced…”). It is much richer in nutrients than conventional food, and also is much kinder to the…

All the world, there is a controversial debate about genetically modified organisms. Today’s food production uses GMOs, which are “genetically modified organisms that have genes copied from other organisms” (Jalonick). The way this happens is genes from another organism have been taken and injected into an organism that is being grown. The United States has initiated in moving forward with this idea. With there being an abundant amount of people born globally, scientists’ are trying to find a…

Justin Worland describes that substantial increase in income these farmers receive compared to their counterpart. “Organic farmers earn 22% to 35% more than their non organic counterpart” (Worland). Due to the obligations organic farmers have while farming they have a 10 to 18% less yield but have found to have a 29 to 32 % premium when they only need 5 to 7% to break even. The article also states that other than need for 5 to 7 % more labor there is not a whole lot of extra costs. The…

Michael Pollan’s “Farmer in Chief” and Jim Hightower’s “Wal-Mart vs. Hightower” reveal how the health of the American people suffers because of the systematic way food is produced in todays modern society and how the corrupt maneuvering of America’s largest retailers deceive the consumer. The way in which cattle are raised with unnatural foods, such as corn, and the way that the animals are injected with harmful chemical substances are both factors that keep driving the price of food lower and…

Calving Around the World Have you ever wondered why some farms calve in the spring while others calve in the fall? Or why some farms calve all year long? If you happen to ask one of those farmers why, you might have received an answer along the lines of “We’ve always done it this way around here” or something equally as vague. The calving system employed varies greatly between countries and regions based on the climate as well as the milk pricing system, but can also vary within smaller areas…

In 2006, Andrew and Melissa Dunham accepted ownership over an eighty acre corn, soybean and cattle farm in their home state of Iowa. This farm has been in there family for over a hundred and fifty years which is one of the reasons why Andrew and Melissa wanted to take it over, so it stayed within their family. At the time, they could not afford to pay a full time farmer to help tend to the fields, so it proved to be a very difficult task. The young couple made the choice to modernize the…