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Food as Filler OR Food as Medicine?

UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), is losing an average of two tons of topsoil per acre annually. and various production technologies.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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From Seed to Grain: How to Grow Wheat for Optimal Yields

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. The total nitrogen requirement for wheat can vary, but it’s often in the range of 60 to 120 pounds per acre. Adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium are typically maintained at 15-30 pounds per acre of P2O5 and K2O, respectively.

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Yield Seeding Grain Crop Rotation

Are environmentalists barking up the wrong tree when it comes to land use?

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. So, we metaphorically waged war against the weeds for about eight weeks, using mainly mechanical methods and also some hand weeding, not wanting to eliminate them, but to make sure that the crop predominated.

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Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. The six tons of grain he was towing suddenly piled forward in the wagon. Gerhardt, now 66, farms organic hay on his own 10-acre field in Mohawk, NY. trillion farm bill.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest

Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding

From Urban to Rural Agriculture — Reclaim Organics, Leduc County

RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eventually, they were growing food on 1-acre of land spread out on multiple plots throughout the city. Ryan’s land base increased from 1-acre’s worth of scattered plots in Edmonton to 6-acres, consolidated in one field. “It He ended up having to till under several acres worth of crops.

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Producer-led Watershed Groups Making a Difference

Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the latest practices being tried in Lafayette County and other parts of the state is “planting green,” or planting corn or soybeans directly into a growing cover crop (often a small grain like rye or wheat) without killing it by herbicide or mechanical means first. We’re not the culprits. Work with us.

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Manure Farming Farming Distribution

The contribution of farming to the rural environment: A farmer’s viewpoint in 1985

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. SEGREGATED VERSUS INTEGRATED.

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Restoring a Cornerstone of the Local Grain Economy

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Where to Get Local Grain Looking for a supplier of local grain near you? Ajamian and others established the guild in 2020 to provide a community for a new generation of millers who draw inspiration from historic practices and try to help restore regional grain economies that have been lost to industrialization.

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