Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. A large weed seed bank caused problems in past years, such as the bindweed that consistently outcompetes crops.

Grain 108

Grain Farming Farming Food 108

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.

Soil Science 71

Soil Science Science Soil Compaction Pesticide 71

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. I have always been the nerd with my head in the soil trying to learn more,” she explains.

Food 130

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 130

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Over 2023, we’ve been showing our data on our spectral probe to customers and we presented the data at the Soil Science Society of America’s annual meeting in St. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal. We are also trying to raise a seed round in 6 months for further growth.”

Production 52

Production Science Acre Soil Science 52

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. On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much. Jewell asks.

Food 112

Food Farming Farming Seeding 112

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.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Crop Manure 52