Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers have increasingly recognized how essential fungi are to sequestering carbon in the soil and some have come to appreciate the outsized role they play in supporting crop health, mitigating climate change, and even sheltering crops from disease. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

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Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 144

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

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Burger, who owns Bethel Springs Farm on 3 acres in Rickreall, Oregon with her husband, grows copious amounts of Rockwell beans, along with a host of other vegetables most likely to make an appearance in a winter soup. Those crops, which are staples of farmers’ markets throughout the summer, are also profitable for farmers.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 52

Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality. But the effort is woefully behind schedule. As of March 2023, only 290 had been completed.

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food. Cotton growing at Viriditas Farm, where rotational crops like heirloom Sonora wheat bolster root material and straw to build soil organic matter with each crop year.

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Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 117

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. 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. He took a broad look at mycorrhizae within the plant kingdom.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Severe droughts are one of the factors that have destabilized the global crop market in recent years, translating to higher U.S. Warming has led to reduced agricultural productivity and diminished crop yields , while major disasters throttle the supply chain. grocery store prices.

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Food Production Greenhouse Construction 51