Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Adjust Fertilizer for Area Multiply the fertilizer requirement per acre by the size of your field to determine the total amount of fertilizer needed. If you are using organic fertilizers such as manure it can have a variable nutrient content which might change over time. Just match it the best you can.

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Fertilizer Compost Crop Farming 96

Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

He plants nitrogen-rich legumes and other perennial cover crops amongst his pear, apple, plum, peach, and cherry trees, but he buys a commercial compost product to keep his 100-acre, fourth-generation family farm thriving. Ela knows first-hand how central compost is to his organic farm—and all organic agriculture.

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Compost Manufacturing Food Production 141

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

Grown in a combination of manure and straw, they produce a distinct kind of spent substrate that is also used as compost, though it is a very different material from specialty mushroom substrate, with fewer applications. In the U.S.,

Compost 137

Compost Farming Farming Logistics 137

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

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers.

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Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Do not bring me a small ranch,” he said. is the first one that we worked with in the beef space. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143