UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

The same is true for farm sustainability data. Why are we talking about the accuracy and reliability of farm carbon emissions data? Because it’s the future of quantifying sustainable farming practices — and it has a much more far-reaching effect than just agriculture.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops. Most N demand is in midsummer.

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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. CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Dana Cronin March 3, 2023 Last year’s drought took a severe toll on Zack Rendel’s farm. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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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. Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. a century ago found their way to Allensworth.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. This means farms have to keep the crop alive and use up precious water resources in an already water-restricted environment. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It was due to poor soil function resulting from conventional farming practices. Cropping systems will never replicate how perennial systems work for optimal soil function, but we can mimic that system with diverse annual production systems that follow the Six Principles of Soil Health. Allen Williams, Ph.D.,

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

When you step into a high tunnel, you’re moving off your farm in terms of temperature, humidity, and frost dates. Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farm Foundation , an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its 2024 annual suite of awards celebrating significant achievements in the agriculture and food sectors. American Seed Trade Association is excited to welcome Martha Malapi as Director, Seed Health & Trade.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Heroes are People who do the work on farms.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily. White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cover crops, proponents argue, can soak up carbon dioxide, via photosynthesis, when fields are normally bare. Cover crops, like this clover growing on a farm in Wilbur, Washington, have proven beneficial for preventing soil erosion and chemical runoff that fouls waterways. farmers grow annual crops on into a carbon sink.

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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. They’re getting a tremendous amount of data from the farmer-participants.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The impact of the Israel-Gaza war on food and farming is one aspect of a complex situation that we seek to reveal in this piece by our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Megan Perry. 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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this blog, I will begin linking regenerative principles to simple practices, which ultimately lead to increased photosynthesis throughout the year, which in turn lead to positive compounding effects to improving soil function, the farm ecosystem, and farm economics. This advice is contrary to the conventional approach.

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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. Historically, that space has been dominated by state level farm bureaus and the larger federal, Kimbirauskas says.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

His father told him tobacco was for cropping, not smoking, and he abides by that dictum. Tobacco has been growing on this farm way back before me,” he told me. “I A bad or failed crop could end the operation. Linwood Scott III is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer who’s worried about the crop’s “razor-thin margin.”

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