Farming trend researchers are poring over new federal data that only come around every five years. The latest information helps some organizations check the pulse of conservation efforts. This month, the USDA released the new Census of Agriculture. .
Wisconsin is part of a movement to reduce livestock emissions by converting manure into energy sources, and there are calls to weave in a careful approach. Anaerobic digesters create biogas by removing methane from livestock waste. The gas can then be used for electricity, heat or vehicle fuel. .
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An Omaha Maya organization has received one of five $15,000 grants from the nonprofit Green Latinos. Some 85 five organizations applied for the grant from the Justicia y Equidad Fund for "under-resourced Latino environmental justice organizations." Communidad Maya Pixim Ixim (CMPI) is an Omaha-based nonprofit supporting Maya and other Indigenous communities in Nebraska. Lola Marina Juan Tomas, CMPI interim executive director, said there are approximately 10,000 Maya in Nebraska, about half of them in the Omaha area. .