DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia. Farmer B tills 50% of their fields, uses cover crops on 40%, and uses stable nitrogen sources. Consider this scenario.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While the cover crops prepped the land, Clamoungou and his crew prepped themselves, along with the equipment, infrastructure and seedlings they’d need for a successful growing season. acre plot in central Seattle, where organizers host volunteer days, summer cookouts, and food and gardening classes. Still, W.E.B. percent Black.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. He adds that the indigenous Ho-Chunk Nation was among the first to go into these forests to harvest maple sap. “We

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. They’re wary of asking farmers to commit to more than that before a market exists for the crop.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Adding a cover crop adds a new inflow, and it’s more likely that a portion of that carbon will stay in the soil if that cover crop is not harvested. Adding a perennial to the crop rotation can also drive a large increase in photosynthesis. Carbon flow estimates for a 200 bu/acre corn crop.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2024

Meanwhile, most acres planted to major commodities are insured and the largest, highest-income farms benefit most from government subsidies to purchase insurance. It further expands the list of eligible practices to include crop rotations and leaves room to include additional practices with proven risk-reducing benefits.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.” The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Even the pollinator crops are covers providing multiple benefits.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. Another study in Argentina found that when applied to the soil, glyphosate affected the viability of spores even at a very low rate of 0.8 litres per hectare.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture differs from monoculture, which involves growing one crop at a time over an entire field. Whether you have one acre or one hundred, polyculture can be implemented. In fact, in some cases, polycultures can even produce 80% more food per acre than conventional monoculture farms!

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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. Their insight is essential to creating sustainable, culturally sensitive, and region-specific policies, she says.

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