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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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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food.

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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. Because of the family fracture, she never visited India, did not speak the language, and could not replicate her grandmother’s traditional cooking.

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