Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

When I was an agricultural engineering student, I took a class called History of Agriculture. I loved that class, in part, because I love agriculture, but also because I love ancient history. Agriculture started there about 10,000 years ago, and about 5,500 years ago they invented the cuneiform writing system.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the United States, the practice was relatively common from the 1860s through the 1950s before it was replaced by synthetic fertilizers and different crop management techniques. But, as sustainability becomes increasingly important, the global agricultural community is turning back to the proven practice. How do cover crops work?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Hakeem Holmes , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Florida is known for being the Sunshine State, attracting millions of visitors each year to its theme parks, beaches, fishing excursions, and other attractions. After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long.

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CABI

JANUARY 25, 2024

CABI, Kisii County Government and the Micro Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT), has trained farmers on good sustainable agricultural practices to address challenges facing the banana sector which is a key cash crop for smallholder farmers.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), focuses on restoring degraded forests, preserving water reservoirs, and promoting sustainable land management practices. As part of the restoration project, community members planted cash crops, perennial crops, and high-value crops that offered sources of livelihood.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A cash crop farmer who runs a self-described “small to mid-sized” operation in southwestern Ontario, he also works as a market development manager for Bayer Crop Science. Adam Pfeffer has put a lot of thought into the new shop he’s just finished at his farm at Sparta, Ont. Read More

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Agwired

MAY 20, 2024

He says that being involved in the exhibit is a great opportunity to interact with people who are coming to Washington, DC to tour museums and they have to walk through the agricultural exhibits. It is important he says since so many have no interface with agriculture, especially modern agriculture and equipment.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Farmers in these groups can typically cover their basic needs with the cash crops they produce, yet prosperity often remains out of reach. These commodities are produced by roughly 120 million small-scale farmers, the majority of them in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The recent Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) may provide a new opportunity to support these traditional approaches to agriculture that benefit communities and the Earth while securing communities’ rights. The base of the restoration work is in their rotational farming system, also called the fallow system or swidden agriculture.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Industry groups should make it clear to members that cover crops and more in-season application must become part of all manure management plans and programs. Most N demand is in midsummer. This is nonsense.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. When he needed added biomass, he experimented with undersowing Dutch white clover into early harvested crops, mowing the post-harvest crop, and then drilling rye into the clover. Lincoln Fishman was the guy who did this for me.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The PCC DBII is one of four such initiatives across the country, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service. Local dairy also supports the North Coast economy, which has been impacted by price collapses in cannabis, one of the region’s primary cash crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. Justine Comeau is an agricultural fieldman for southeastern Alberta’s Special Areas Board. It’s for the grasshoppers. They don’t like the smell and will avoid areas where it’s planted,” he says. Does it work? Moderately.”

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

However, we have to remember that because of the use of herbicides, ALL of these areas are kept completely void of any vegetation growing in and between the rows, other than the cash crop. Obviously, that is not the reality.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

“The collaboration of Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils to sell camelina seed for use in sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and animal feed production is a significant step forward in promoting regenerative agriculture and renewable energy,” said Eric Boeck, Regional Director North America for Syngenta Seeds. “By

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Since 2016, the U.S.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

In agriculture, growers must work with quality earth that contains healthy levels of soil nutrients. Agricultural chemical products can also speed up natural processes that further deplete soil nutrients. For more information on how Green Wave Products can benefit your agriculture endeavors, contact our team.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It took transitioning to no-till, keeping my soils covered (armored), making sure there was a living root in the soil as long as possible, adding a diverse array of cash crops and cover crops, and integrating livestock into my cropland acres for my soils to significantly advance. It’s time that we stand up and say, “No more.”

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist When I began to see how unique the growing conditions in my high tunnel are compared to open-field growing, I started to think differently about how to maintain soil health and manage soil fertility for high tunnel growing and season extension. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farm Foundation , an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its 2024 annual suite of awards celebrating significant achievements in the agriculture and food sectors. A modest rebound in U.S. Martha joins ASTA after 10 years at the U.S. million to $370.9

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Farmers in drought-prone areas are increasingly relying on crops that require less water to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. The Great Plains is currently facing exceptional drought, and agricultural hub states like Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma are dealing with long-term consequences. However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2023

After growing up on her family’s beef cow-calf and cash crop farm at West Lorne, Ont., After growing up on her family’s beef cow-calf and cash crop farm at West Lorne, Ont., Jodie Aldred loves to take pictures, and she’s turning her passion for farm snap shots into a burgeoning business. Read More

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Leadership from the USDA and agriculture schools, like the one at Iowa State University, influence farm methods; but even recommendations to reduce farm chemicals have unintended outcomes. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. This can include a rotation of cash crops , cover crops , and even fallow periods to allow the soil to rest and rejuvenate.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

Because it’s the future of quantifying sustainable farming practices — and it has a much more far-reaching effect than just agriculture. It uses the most comprehensive, field-level data on more than 50 sustainable agriculture practices and inputs that impact carbon emissions, soil health, and water conservation.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition. Its much more complex than that.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change. The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

It is known to be a top choice to grow in grazing areas, for hay, silage, and green manure or cover crops. This is one of the highest quality feeds for livestock as well as a cash crop. Its adaptability to different climates and soil types makes oat hay a reliable and sustainable forage crop for diverse agricultural settings.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. But that’s not why they’ve become a linchpin of the red-hot climate-smart and regenerative agriculture movements. percent for corn and 3.5

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Since then, as the blight-resistant tree has wound its way through the deregulatory labyrinth of federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, and Department of Agriculture, Powell has had to step down, recently sharing his diagnosis of terminal colon cancer publicly.

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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. ” Land O’Lakes’ Truterra is unique in some ways, but it also fits the mold of what agricultural carbon markets have come to look like across the country over the last few years.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

But beyond this, the destruction of local agriculture is creating the conditions for long-term famine and displacement. Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? In this field, which was tiled… Read More When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? In this field, which was tiled… Read More When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? That’s a thought process that Mount Brydges, Ont.,

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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. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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