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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. The colonists set their sights on the peoples of Africas Rice Coast, from present-day Senegal down to Liberia, who had developed sophisticated rice cultivation systems.

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

The same applies for CO2 in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse gas effect, however carbon sequestered in the soil from the atmosphere via photosynthesis has many co-benefits to build soil fertility and soil structure so that the soil can retain more water. Increased soil carbon, soil nitrogen, soil moisture, nutrient cycling.

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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Courtesy of Groundwork BioAg Rootella Carbon Program Ushers in a New Asset Class Enables Adoption by Conventional and Regenerative Farmers: Rootella Carbon provides growers the additionality, or practice change, needed for carbon credit eligibility, regardless of current cultivation practices.

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