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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. The 800-square-foot basement and garage provide ample space for germination, cultivation and packaging, he says, with the vertical shelf configuration leaving plenty of room to grow. “I acre lot has ample space for the growing business.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. In November, her farm in Alexandria achieved a milestone by harvesting its first full acre of rice after three years of smaller trials, marking their best harvest yet.

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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Rootella Carbon harnesses the power of Rootella – highly effective mycorrhizal inoculants that are proven to sequester significant amounts of carbon in cropland (1-4 tCO 2 eq/acre annually). million acres in 17 countries. Rootella Carbon delivers on that vision by paving the way to a gigaton of CO 2 sequestration in the next decade.”

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

Decreased water and wind erosion as with the current rate of soil loss by 2050 we will have lost 95% of arable lands to degradation and desertification. It can be summarised as follows, water is the thermostat of the blue planet, water vapor turns up the heat and water in the ground or in vegetation turns down the temperature.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

That changed, however, after Moyer and her partner established an organic farm on 10 acres in the Sierra foothills of California. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” The couple decided to grow, in addition to vegetables, an heirloom variety of wheat called Sonora.

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