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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Manure Fertilizer Crop Carryover 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

The idea, the manager explained, was that Supreme Beef would run a feedlot, and Feeder Creek would supply a biodigester, a machine that would process manure and capture the resulting methane to be sold as energy. We need at least 10,000 cows to get enough manure for the amount of methane we want to generate,’” Stone said.

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Manure Cattle Construction Farming 145

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Kayan, whose business relies on the organic vegetables he grows for his farmstand and CSA, said hed be happy to use urine on other crops if the practice was more widely accepted by consumers. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots.

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Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 80

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Most N should be put in small amounts as a sidedress or foliar spray, unless you are planting into a high C:N ratio soil or cover crop that will require a lot of N for residue decomposition. Most N demand is in midsummer.

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Pesticide Crop Manure Fertilizer 97

Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Enjoy our conversation about postwar trucking culture, crop insurance, and English perspectives on the countryside, below. I was born and raised in rural southwest Wisconsin, where I attended a high school located in the middle of a 30,000 acre seedcorn field. Photo by Christopher Paul High on Unsplash. And are those things related?

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Crop Ruralism Agriculture Agriculture 79

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

Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

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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Manure Fertilizer Crop Crop Rotation 85

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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Farming Farming Crop Rotation Grain 98

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 We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 129

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The soil quality may not support crops or the land may not have appropriate water drainage. The cost of trying to create viable conditions for growing can be enormous and may not be worth the expense or the crop it might produce. In 2023, farmers enrolled with the DFWT were paid $500 (CDN) per acre.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumption of crops or animals grown on PFAS-contaminated land puts humans at high risk of illness. While the Environmental Working Group has estimated that over 2 million acres of farmland across the United States have been spread with sludge, only Maine and Michigan have done significant testing for chemical contamination of farmland.

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Farming Farming Farmland Crop 145

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Manure slurry is a valuable but difficult resource to manage on dairy farms. Slurry pits must be emptied to make room for the never-ending stream of manure. Manure is often not a top priority for most dairies and handling may have to wait until seasonal fieldwork is completed. This causes the soil microbiology to go dormant.

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Manure Pasture Fertilizer Crop 52

UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. of carbon per acre in the top two feet of soil. That’s a big number!

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Compost Acre Processing Crop 91

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Payne operates a 300-acre regenerative farm in Concordia, Missouri, an hour outside of Kansas City, where he raises sheep and cattle. Researchers and farmers say silvopastures help improve the health of the soil by protecting it from wind and water, while encouraging an increase of nutrient-rich organic matter, like cow manure, onto the land.

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Livestock Farming Farming Cattle 98

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. More Eyes Per Acre As one of California’s oldest cheesemakers, Rumiano Cheese has a storied presence in the North Coast’s dairy shed. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 142

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

As a result of the ROC standards, livestock now graze the cover crops in the almond orchards, fertilizing the soil with their manure and providing space for beneficial insects. While ROC certifies a wide spectrum of crops, livestock and fibre, Land to Market only covers animal products: meat, dairy and leather.

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Food Ranching Ecology Fertilizer 98

Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

Steve Ela is an organic fruit grower in western Colorado who relies on compost to nourish his heirloom tomato crop each year. It helps increase yields and the nutrient content of crops, reduce synthetic fertilizer use, and improve soil health and water retention, among other benefits.

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

After a winter of record snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a sudden warm spell melted the lower reaches, unleashing nearly 40,000 acre-feet of water —a volume equal to more than a tenth of Las Vegas’ annual supply—in 48 hours. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres. On the farm, they minimize and reuse waste streams by recycling animals and manure that act as food for black soldier fly grubs.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

“The ARA adopts many strategies pioneered in California” said CAFF Policy Director, Dave Runsten, “such as the Healthy Soils Program, the diversion of organic matter from landfills, and the Alternative Manure Management Program. It’s a hopeful sign that our advocacy is moving from the state level to the national stage.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Manure Compost 52

ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That’s when I started actually using biochar on my crops, doing workshops, and teaching farmers how to make it.” Biochar is created by heating biomass, such as forest waste or animal manure, in a low-oxygen environment—a process known as pyrolysis. “I had this huge, eye-opening experience,” Hardin said.

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Poultry Greenhouse Yield Manure 93

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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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The label can cover crops, livestock and dairy products, and the industry is huge—worth about $62 billion last year. For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. People have faked organic crops, including corn and soybeans , making millions of dollars. It’s also not cheap. It’s pretty simple.”

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Food Supply Chain Farming Farming 101

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 Pasture Crop Rotation 87

ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. With increased crop successions comes increased soil preparation and tillage that can impact soil structure.

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Cash Crop 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” As California has lost much of its grain to higher value crops, small flour mills and grain cleaning businesses have disappeared, too. They spread out the cost through a fee structure based on either the number of acres on which the equipment is used or the number of hours it is in use.

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Grain Orchard Farming Farming 144

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 110

Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

acres of land divided into two fenced in areas, or paddocks. acres of land. And we could take 1,000 acres, 10,000 acres, or 1 million acres, and we’d know exactly what to do. acres, mature hazelnut trees will produce around 800 to 1,200 pounds of nuts. Most farmers raise more than one flock.

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Poultry Processing Acre Farming 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. The History of US Seed Breeding For most of the history of domesticated crops, those who grew crops saved seeds from one growing season to the next.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 96

Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases. However, these chemicals harm the very thing the crops rely on: soil. How do family farmers restore soil health?

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Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.

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Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

All five are row crop and livestock producers who are leaders in adopting new technology in many different ways. By using cover crops, no-till, and manure instead of synthetics. Fishback farms with her brother in Washington County, Iowa and is known on TikTok and Facebook as Iowa Farm Mama. How do we do it?

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Technology Grain Manure Farming 45

ATTRA

APRIL 30, 2024

So, when I heard of the mid-scale anaerobic digester being installed at Dickenson College Organic Farm as a demonstration of how small dairy farms can utilize manure and other waste streams to produce on farm energy, I was eager for the opportunity to visit the farm and help spread the word to other farms.

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Farming Farming Manure Ruralism 52

RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Trina Moyles Jenny Berkenbosch and James Vriend manage Sundog Organic Farm , a 14-acre certified organic vegetable and herb operation, located north of Edmonton in Sturgeon County. It was a really casual, fun, 2-acre project,” recalls Jenny. ‘We James’s parents were retired from their business, so their land was available to farm.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52

Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Britts now farm 5,000 acres, raising cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hay in Randolph, Chariton and Macon counties. Crop rotations and use of cover crops reduce erosion and improve soil health. Using manure as a natural fertilizer helps them maximize the efficiency of having cattle and crops.

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Fertilizer Crop Rotation Cattle Family Farming 40

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Meet the Farm Kevin Conard explained that before purchasing the farm, it was managed under continuous corn and was left eroded, compacted, and performing poorly under row crops. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98