Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

headquarters just as harvest season got underway. We have 6,400 acres this year that we farm,” LaPointe said, pointing out color-coded land plots on the map. Organic farming is done with no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. “We The map details all 178 square miles of the Winnebago Reservation in northeast Nebraska.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), Scientists tell us that in addition to soil disturbance, a wide range of pesticides can affect the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi. litres per hectare.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Given the sliver of land—about a 16th of an acre—the duo initially had doubts about the business’ profitability. Microgreens at Kupu Place.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

It can reduce the use of pesticides and herbicides, help to prevent soil erosion, add nutrients to your soil, increase water retention in the soil, and increase biodiversity. Whether you have one acre or one hundred, polyculture can be implemented. This means that farmers don't need to use pesticides or herbicides as much.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. My goal is for us to not all become fossils!

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Washington’s response reflects the corporate capture of the US regulatory system,” said Fernando Bejarano, director of the Action Network on Pesticides and their Alternatives in Mexico. Why the US government would embarrass itself with such a document is not a mystery in Mexico. It’s what’s happens when you have unregulated corporate power.”

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. million acres of wetlands. What are wetlands and why do they matter? In the United States, wetlands are crucial to the $5.6

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 22, 2024

The 160-acre farm has been in his family since 1865, and Andrews grew up there. To pay for it, he enrolled a total of 14 acres, made up of those strips, in the federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Initially, CSP was capped based on acres, and lawmakers began cutting the acreage cap.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

And that’s after the corn is planted, doused with fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, shielded from weeds and insects with toxic chemicals, and harvested. The owners say leasing land for the “community solar” garden removes several acres from crop production but provides extra revenue. AP Photo/Jim Mone. Corn, the largest U.S.

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