UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

EVERY square inch of all those "brown areas" have been treated with various chemicals and fertilizers. Is it any wonder that our surface waters are filled with sediment, and fertilizer, and chemicals? Is it any wonder that our surface waters are filled with sediment, and fertilizer, and chemicals?

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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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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

High-salt fertilizers add insult to injury by inhibiting soil biology and creating osmotic stress in plants. Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. It's also said that high-input high-yield agriculture is the only way we can ‘feed the world’.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Minnesota Department of Agriculture testing has shown that over 12 percent of the private wells tested in the eight-county karst region of southeastern Minnesota exceeded the EPA’s drinking water standard.

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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. It’s no secret that keeping soil ripe with fertile nutrients – such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, requires effort and care. These high-performing products are developed to improve soil health.

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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. These strategies start with soil testing.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. One cause of self-inflicted soil acidification is the excess use of nitrogen fertilizers like ammonium sulfate and urea because two H + are released each time an ammonium (NH 4 + ) ion is converted to nitrate (NO 3 - ).

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. Soil health is a holistic measure of soil function.

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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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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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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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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

JULY 18, 2024

Compatibility With Other Crops: Some hay crops, like clover, can improve soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, making them good choices for crop rotation systems. Costs: Consider the costs of seeds, fertilizers, and any additional inputs required for growing and harvesting the hay.

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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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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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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. Linwood Scott III is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer who’s worried about the crop’s “razor-thin margin.” agricultural workers is now 0.037 percent. agricultural land, was 0.04 Photo by John West. percent and dropping.

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