DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

These indicators include fertilizer and crop protection usage, irrigation, cover crop and tillage practices, and equipment emissions. The end result of EcoField data calculations is a single value — the average carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions (kg/acre) for each field.

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Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

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. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A bad or failed crop could end the operation. He recounted the innumerable ways his 1,500 acres of tobacco, spread over several counties around Wilson, the historic center of the flue-cured tobacco industry in North Carolina, might lose money if he’s not careful. percent of all manufacturing jobs in the state.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 76