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Animal Ag Alliance breaks down sustainability efforts for Earth Day
The Animal Ag Alliance 2023 Sustainability Report highlights progress in the sector ahead of Earth Day.
Communications specialist Emily Solis tells Brownfield the animal agriculture community continues to work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their environmental footprint.
“And that includes the beef community committing to reaching carbon neutrality by 2040, the U.S. pork community setting a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, and then U.S. dairy has a similar goal in place to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality,” she shares.
She points to manure management strategies as one of the top ways farmers are meeting those goals.
“Farmers are recycling this manure to use on crop fields as an organic fertilizer, we’re also seeing groups like dairy for instance that are trying to trap the methane gas and use it to great a renewable source,” she explains.
Solis encourages farmers to promote the ways they are reducing resources like land and water along with other environmental practices on social media as part of Earth Day.
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