Acre Cash Crop Harvesting Yield 
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 Nobody likes it, though, because it’s itchy at harvest time.” (The
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.
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ATTRA
JANUARY 2, 2024
Based on the test results and crop requirements, you can begin to adjust pH levels in the soil and any nutrients that are deficient with the addition of lime or sulfur and rock powders and other amendments. High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall. Cover crops can also help break some pest and disease cycles.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.
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.
Civil Eats
JULY 9, 2024
One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. 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. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.
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. Email * CAPTCHA Δ The stakes are higher now.
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