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Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Cropaia

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. Planting and Harvesting Potatoes are typically planted in spring once soil temperatures reach 10°C (50°F), a benchmark for promoting uniform sprouting and robust early growth. The effects of soil type on harvest include: 1.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

The late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) championed the program amid the decline of the sugarcane industry, spurring about 200 acres of kava cultivation by backyard growers and commercial farms, according to Johnston. Harvesting awa requires leaving the corm and lateral roots intact. Still, U.H,s per pound of cherries.

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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one.

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Winter wheat finding a home in Maritime potato rotations

Real Agriculture

There are about 85,000 acres of potatoes on Prince Edward Island and every year an increasing number of those acres are planted to winter wheat after potatoes are harvested in September and October.

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Ride Along with Farm Credit Mid-America’s Patronage Program at Red Hen Turf Farm

The Farmers Daughter USA

It’s a 2,500 acre operation growing sod, tomatoes, seed corn, corn, and soybeans. It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest. But soil quality, pest control, crop rotation, and fertilizers are all used to produce quality sod.

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Op-Ed | Flour Power: The Strength and Sustainability of Sorghum

Food Tank

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Agwired

Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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