Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. According to the authors, there are three ways to eliminate cover crops: 1) herbicides, 2) rolling and crimping, and 3) tillage.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It took transitioning to no-till, keeping my soils covered (armored), making sure there was a living root in the soil as long as possible, adding a diverse array of cash crops and cover crops, and integrating livestock into my cropland acres for my soils to significantly advance.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed. The more dairies, the more farmer “eyes per acre,” Baird says, referencing Wendell Berry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Northern Soy Marketing (NSM) recently held its inaugural Midwest Crop Tour in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska for group of Southeast Asian buyers. Some 3 million acres of agricultural lands were in the storm’s path, including row crops like peanuts and cotton, dairy and poultry farms, aquaculture operations and more.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

Of course, this required massive amounts of work and the crops received only the water they needed to grow. According to the Salt Control Program of the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV SALTS), “Salt accumulations have resulted in approximately 250,000 acres being taken out of production and 1.5

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack , cover crops are being asked to do something new and high-stakes: draw atmospheric carbon into the soil to help fight climate change.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. In 2022, the state and the federal government agreed to return more than 1,000 acres to the Onondaga Nation. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

At those tables, farmers could grab an Advanced Acre Rx hat from WinField United, Land O’Lakes’ seed and chemical company, and a water bottle emblazoned with the logo for Truterra , its carbon market platform, in one fell swoop.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, pomegranates, citrus, watermelons, potatoes, barley, wheat and many other fruits and vegetables. Gazans had been encouraged over the years to produce cash crops for export using extractive methods, as has been widespread across the world.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Recently, the state also slashed 20 percent of university extension staff.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

million pageviews per month The New Republic Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. His father told him tobacco was for cropping, not smoking, and he abides by that dictum. A bad or failed crop could end the operation. He’s never smoked.

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