ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

By Audrey Kolde, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist I find great joy in incorporating green vegetables into my meals. As farmers who work in unpredictable climates, we know the importance of growing a diverse range of foods and harvesting various parts to make up for times when cash crops are scarce. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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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. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. It is the opposite of sustainable agriculture. But how can we do things right?

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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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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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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into.

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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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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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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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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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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Most N should be put in small amounts as a sidedress or foliar spray, unless you are planting into a high C:N ratio soil or cover crop that will require a lot of N for residue decomposition. This is backwards.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

The image was taken on June 2, 2022, right after planting, but before the typical row crops were growing. The area bounded by yellow is where he had planted a winter rye cover crop following a canning crop. so between the two of us, our "cover cropped land area" is about 1% of the total land area represented in this image.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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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 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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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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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

to sell Camelina sativa (camelina) seed – an ultra-low carbon oilseed crop that can be used as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable fuels, and an ingredient for sustainable animal feed. Camelina can be planted on fallow land or land left idle between crop cycles. Sustainable Oils President Mike Karst said.

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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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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. High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Rotate your crops. Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. There are several types of crop rotation that farmers can implement to maximize the benefits of this practice. Use cover crops. The importance of cover crops lies in their ability to protect and improve soil health.

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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. There are several different ways to add fertilizer to a field, a crop, home garden, or lawn environment.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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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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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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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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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Understanding your soil (loamy, clay, etc), the PH, and the other trace nutrients that are available in your soil is vital to growing healthy crops. Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow. Crops can attract unwanted pests that will also eat the crop.

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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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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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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

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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. Photo by Edwin Remsberg/VWPics via AP Images.

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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Maximizing Photosynthesis: The #1 Soil Health Building Approach B y: Chuck Schembre , Understanding Ag, LLC In the previous regenerative orchard blog, we discussed the connection between perennial crops and soil fungi , and introduced the importance of maximizing photosynthesis on the orchard floor. Historically in the western U.S.,

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