Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

The rest are beneficial to the ecosystem, devouring invasive weeds and providing food for prairie birds like the endangered burrowing owl. While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. million acres of farm and ranchland infested by destructive grasshoppers.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. His soybean and wheat crops were also impacted. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It You had to grow food for your family. however, most African and Asian countries use sorghum as food.

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

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Its also why our stomachs employ an acid with a pH of 2 to dissolve and break down the food we eat. First, microbes excrete acids after they consume food. Sugary foods fuel microbial activity and result in more acid production, which is why candy does what it does to teeth. This occurs for a couple reasons.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The World Food Prize Foundation announced the selection of Dr. Swati Nayak as the 2023 Recipient of the Norman E. In the role, Schneider will be leading a fast-growing team that provides digital and media services to the entire spectrum of clients in food, agriculture and companion animal care. A modest rebound in U.S. million to $370.9

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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”. We should all keep an eye on her next step, whatever that might be.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips or other noncrop strips along fields also offer refugia for beneficial species or, depending on species used, can act as trap crops that lure pests away from a cash crop. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization.

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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. Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for corn and 3.5

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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. Davidson’s interest was piqued by a 2018 column published in a trade publication.

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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. According to the World Food Programme , the Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This greatly enhances seed germination, immediately providing symbiosis to the plant, leading to greater cover crop productivity, and the cost is very cheap per acre. If you know the latent seed bank is rich, and vegetation populates on its own, you just To Seed or Not to Seed a Cover Crop? The mulch also adds food for fungi.

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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. As Georgia state senator Kim Jackson began her welcome speech, she instructed the group to look around the room.

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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. Photo by John West. Photo by John West.

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