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800 head of cattle in Asturias

September 4, 2025 by usatoday24

In Asturias, the mugids, balids and whispers have become an unexpected ally of electricity. Under the towers and cables that transport the energy that illuminates homes and companies, now pasts the cattle. The recipe to keep the electricity lines clean no longer depends only on chainsaws or unbrids: nature occupies its place again. Living Specifies. REDEIA – The Matrix Electricity Company, responsible for the transport and operation of the electrical system in Spain – has launched in Cabrales (Asturias) the program “Network grazing”. This initiative introduces the cattle in the safety halls of the electric lines. As reported by the company itselfthere are eight livestock farms of Cabrales that have joined the agreement, contributing a total of 512 cows, 180 goats, 80 sheep and 23 horses. These animals will graze over 67.5 hectares of land located under the lines of Ortiguero, Asiego and Carreña, thus becoming biological hosts to maintain vegetation at bay. One more complement. The project is added to the usual mechanical means. “The streets that run under the electricity lines must be clean and accessible, both to avoid fires and to prevent vegetation from reaching the laying of the electrical cables and ensuring that, if necessary, maintenance equipment can arrive soon and solve any contingency,” said Laura Quintana, director of sustainable development of Redeia, In statements collected by La Voz de Galicia. The grazing plan is designed and supervised by the Agrovidar company, which will also be in charge of evaluating the environmental results. An effect with benefits. The previous experience in the Rioja and León has already shown results: it avoids the degradation of the ecosystem, increases soil fertility and favors the increase of more biodiversity, with the greatest presence of arthropods, butterflies, pollinators and floral units. In practice, these halls under the lines become ecological corridors that reduce habitat fragmentation. In addition, the impact is not just environmental. The initiative reinforces the rural economy, provides income to local farmers, helps set population in mountain areas and preserves traditional knowledge: that of extensive livestock. An increasingly practiced initiative. What happens in Cabrales is not an isolated case. The use of livestock as a maintenance tool makes its way in the world of energy. On the one hand, in Australia, A study in Wellington Solar Park (174 MW) He showed that the sheep that grass between the solar panels not only reduced maintenance costs, but also improved the quality of wool thanks to the diversity of fodder and the shadow. On the other, in the United States, the so -called “Solar grazing” has transformed the lives of shepherds such as Jr Howard in Texas. Under Milam County panels – one of the world’s largest solar parks, with 1,600 hectares and 900 MW of power – 3,000 sheep do the work of natural debrote. Howard’s business went from being small to have 8,000 animals and 27 employees. The shared soil. In Cabrales, the energy of the future walks on the footprints of an ancient knowledge. Between mugids and balids, Asturias demonstrates that coexistence between technology and nature is not only possible, but necessary. Where there were unbrokenness before, now it is cows, goats, sheep and horses who keep alive the balance between electricity, environment and rural life. Image | Freepik Xataka | Texas installed millions of solar panels in rural terrain. To keep it they have had to hire 3,000 sheep

For centuries, olive leaves were used to feed cattle. Now some grenadines want our nutrition to revolutionize

March 10, 2025 by usatoday24

How much is an olive leaf? Here is a question that probably has not done many people in the world and the truth is that it has not been asked for a good reason: because it is almost nothing. In fact, historically no more than as food complement to cattle has been used. Changing that it is gerund. Everything else is A field paid to pseudoscience. That is precisely what you want to change The people of the Biorevaleaf operational groupa group of researchers from Granada obsessed in “fully revalue the olive leaf as a source of phytochemicals and nutrients with bioactive character.” That is, obsessed with the idea of converting that “by -product” into an essential piece to extract functional ingredients in food and enriched oils. But is it really for something? On paper, it serves a lot: the olive leaf is rich in fiber, proteins and Other “phenolic compounds such as hydroxytitus, tyrosol, aglicone, oleaceine and oleocantal, “oleuropein.” What begins to tell us research is that allow reducing oxidative damage And, by extension, many of the diseases that arise with age. The first step would be to introduce all these bioactive components in olive oil (creating a whole new generation of enriched producer). But the second would go further and bring those compounds beyond, throughout the food chain. And how do you want to do it? That, without a doubt, is the most interesting part. It is under study, but Cidaf, the University of Granada, the Oleícola company Torres Morente and Agrifood Cooperativas de Granada They are trying of implementing fermentation processes and ecosstable extraction techniques. Spain in front of the future of the olive grove. In the early 90s, Spain and Italy They disputedhand in hand, the throne of the first world producing country of olive oil. This year, for the first time, Türkiye has surpassed the transalpine peninsula and has become the second great international producer. It is no accident. In the last 30 years and while the world produces twice as much oil that then, Italy first stagnated and then began to decline. Today, Italian olivers cannot produce even half of what the country consumes. Figures. According to the Italiaolivicola Studies Center In 2024, half of 1.1 million hectares of olive trees in the country are in the process of abandonment. 200,000 hectares are in a state of total abandonment and more than 300,000 are managed with “purely maintenance practices.” It is a slow agony that Spain tries to dodge. But it is not easy. The productive bands They put producers in a complex balance that threatens to denaturalize the entire industrial sector. It is not an exaggeration: one of the great paradoxes of Spanish olive oil is that, despite growing 15% a year, More than 500 oil mill will close In the next decade. Initiatives like this leaf or as those that are coming doing with the olive bonethey want to solve this by carrying the olive tree: today, the oil mills (and the rest of agri -food industries) are one of the few industrial structures that articulate empty Spain. If we lose them, the rest of the social framework will suffer a lot. Image | Nazar Hrabovyi | Bee Naturalles In Xataka | Spain faces its greatest agricultural challenge of the century: turn 1,901,529 hectares of olive grove before it is late

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