Agriculture Plowing Rural Development 
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DECEMBER 26, 2023
By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist I’m sure farmers have been using living mulches for ages. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.
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JULY 11, 2023
By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Over 15 years ago, I moved from Vermont to Arkansas, and I’ve been here farming in the Ozarks ever since. The differences between the two places revealed themselves more and more the longer I lived here. This line of questioning led him to understand the importance of soil health for crop growth.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2024
By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist In my past two blogs, I reflected on planting cover crops on small plots and gardens. I wrote these blogs because, as an agricultural educator, I need to ground truth what I teach. If you missed them, you can read them here and here. My little mad farm helps me do that. It keeps me honest.
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APRIL 9, 2024
By Lee Rinehart , NCAT Agriculture Specialist September is the beginning of my year. As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. Agricultural fallout. But a mechanical tiller? A machine of destruction? The Dust Bowl.
National Young Farmers Coalition
APRIL 23, 2024
population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies. Agriculture and food are not synonymous, but that’s for another day.) No more funding for specialty crops, urban agriculture, conservation, or the Gus Schumacher Healthy Incentives Program.
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