Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increase Yields More diverse rotations can boost crop yields and resilience.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. In fact, from 2008-2016, croplands expanded at a rate of over one million acres per year, with the eastern half of the Dakotas leading the charge. Unfortunately, 69.5% in some spots.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. Demand for kava soared during this time, especially in Germany, where Hawaiian strains fetched a premium.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. Temperature and maturity: Sandy loam soils tend to warm up quickly in spring, allowing for earlier planting and faster crop establishment. as the crop matures. Optimal tissue levels are 4.5–5.5% for nitrogen, 0.3–0.5%

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. The best amount of nutrients will vary between crop species, soil, precipitation, and more. Healthy Crops Start with Your Soil The foundation of healthy crops begins with healthy soil.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Today, the Mattives farm 2,000 acres of certified seed potatoes, a specialized crop that begins in their tissue culture lab, where a single plant is carefully propagated into tens of thousands. Adapting for the Future The Mattives commitment to soil health led them to rethink traditional rotations of potatoes and barley.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Clamoungou stood at the end of a 100-foot-long crop bed studded by the wilting leaves and sagging stalks of the last remaining collards. 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. Still, W.E.B.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

million new acres (22% of all FY2023 acres) (see Figure 1), and nearly $171 million expended directly on climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices in CSP, with the additional $79 million of IRA funds allocated to CSP supporting technical assistance for all contracts signed.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wanted to name this “Ignoring the (Crop Rotation) Experts,” but that title is way too loaded these days! However, in terms of crop rotation, I increasingly find the rigidity of ideas on how to do it chafing. Crop rotation is one of the funny areas in gardening full of super rigid ideas and proscriptions.

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Crop Rotation Crop Farming Farming 52

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 97

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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ATTRA

MAY 22, 2024

The Tribe moved away from monoculture cropping and toward a diverse, year-round crop rotation across 2,400 acres of row crop production and 2,500 acres of pastureland. The switch to more regenerative practices has already resulted in improved soil that in turn leads to improved crop quality.

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Crop Rotation Agriculture Agriculture Acre 72

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Measuring a farm’s carbon footprint is not as simple as saying, “Cover crops were used, so that grain’s sustainably grown.” 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.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Agroforestry—the integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems—has been used since ancient times to produce fruits, nuts, coffee, cocoa and medicinal herbs. They farm on 130 acres of the land on which her father and grandfather had raised hogs. In 2014, she and Rafkin started transitioning to organic.

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Acre Pasture Farming Farming 126

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On the other hand, conventional management of cropland and pastureland has acidified many millions of acres unnaturally quickly in the past century or so, and this is the real issue at hand. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 is executing a program to develop and commercialize spring and winter Camelina varieties with stacked herbicide traits to achieve large acreage adoption of the crop in North America. 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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We And they’re pushing innovation.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. One big issue is what crops can work well for large-scale utility projects. Soybeans are one example.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is imperative that the next farm bill strengthen the farm safety net by helping farmers to access crop insurance coverage, which is becoming increasingly important amidst worsening droughts, floods, frosts, and other storms or causes for loss. Our first post focused on local and regional market access can be found here.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Wheat is one of the world’s most essential staple crops, providing essential carbohydrates and nutrients for a significant portion of the global population. This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

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. It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest.

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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Farmland 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It does this by providing farmers with financial and technical assistance to actively manage, maintain, and expand conservation activities – like cover crops, rotational grazing, ecologically-based pest management, buffer strips, and the transition to organic farming – even while they work their lands for production.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

AKreGeneration is committed to restoring the land for generations to come, acre by AKre. Some of the different practices we use include: diverse crop rotation, cover crops, intercropping, low chemical use, biological fertilizer and seed treatment, soil amendments, and livestock incorporation. Why farming?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 87

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The corn crop in the diagram emerges and reaches maturity in about 120 days. 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.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Manage Weeds on Your Farm: The Martens Farm and Blind Cultivation on the Martens Farm highlight practices used by Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens on their nearly 2,000-acre organic farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Related ATTRA publication: Weed Management in Organic Small Grains

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Agwired

MARCH 7, 2024

The study showed an average corn yield of 195 bushels per acre across nitrogen rates, and plots treated with PROVEN 40 yielded an average of 11 bushels per acre more than the control plots. This occurs because the nitrogen is delivered directly to the roots, avoiding competition with cover crop residue.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Transform F2C project incentivizes producers to implement climate-smart practices, such as cover cropping, conservation crop rotation and reduced tillage practices. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote carbon sequestration and improve soil health.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 25, 2023

In 2022, the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provided an average of $34 per acre to farmers who transitioned to on-farm conservation practices that yield outcomes like carbon sequestration and water quality improvements.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The crop itself is hardly new. 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. Already, though, farmers are starting to pay attention.

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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. Recently, the state also slashed 20 percent of university extension staff.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

It's not just about mixing up crops and hoping for the best; instead, it's about creating an ecosystem where plants thrive together. By planting multiple crops together in one space, you can create a self-sustaining ecosystem that supports your plants while also maintaining healthy soil and reducing pests.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction. Cover crops are all about connection. On the Mad Farm, this is enacted through compost and especially the cover crops that occupy space on the gardens each season. This spring, I planted a seed pack from High Mowing Seeds.

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Agwired

JULY 5, 2024

Examples include but are not limited to cover crops; reduced tillage; nutrient management; irrigation management; diversified crop rotations; buffer implementation; terraces and waterways; precision agriculture and consumer engagement. This honor celebrates U.S. soybean farmers are eligible to apply.

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