Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sweet potato is a cash crop that increased farmers incomes by about 60%. The researchers added sweet potato and a legume, like soybeans or peanuts, to the rotation and at the same time reduced the amount of synthetic fertilisers applied to the field.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

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. These products are best marketed directly to consumers, local chefs, or specialty markets, although I hope this will change.

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Agric4profits

APRIL 16, 2025

It serves as Ugandas major cash crop, contributing significantly to foreign exchange earnings and employment creation. Coffee is the second most traded tropical commodity in value worldwide, after oil. As a coffee producer, Uganda ranks second in Africa, after Ethiopia, and eighth globally.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Planting corn in 60- or even 90-inch spacings runs counter to the norm, but it creates an “opportunity space” for companion cash crops or grazing.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The big five cash crops for winter in Florida are leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and blueberries. The good news for small-scale growers in Florida is that these winter cash crops can be profitable on limited acreage.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 1, 2024

Researchers want to see whether cover crop nutrients can be used by cash crop after. Legumes mine nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash from subsoil.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Research by Clemson University reveals that estimated losses in 2022 to vital cash crops were roughly $114 million, in large part due to deer.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Iowa Learning Farm: Intercropping can give farmers a way to grow three cash crops in a two-year rotation cycle, while adding a conservation practice on their farm.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

What's New From the Shows: This lineup of new products centers around planting cash crops or seeding cover crops.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

British farmers have observed positive results that resemble those observed at the Menoken Farm, including pH balancing, organic matter accumulation, weed suppression and yield bumps in subsequent cash crops.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? What are the drawbacks of using cover crops?

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. This technique includes broadcasting seed into the existing crop after harvest, followed by mowing the cash crop.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Increasing crop diversity lowers our reliance on these products and improves water quality. Adding cover crops into rotations helps keep soil in place when cash crops arent growing. Increase Resilience Planting different crops ensures some thrive, no matter what.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation. Planting shorter-maturity cash crops is one strategy to allow more time to get cover crops established in the fall and/or let them grow longer in the spring. There are many ways to “fill the calendar” with living roots.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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

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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

JULY 31, 2023

For example, if a fall-winter cash crop was turned over and immediately planted to a spring crop, the summer-winter mix is a good follow up to provide an extended period of rest through the winter. You can also inter-seed winter species to a summer cash crop.

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Organic Farming Research

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To address this need, OFRF has developed a Crop-Livestock Integration series informed by interviews with highly experienced organic producers across the US whose farming operations have benefited from integrated crop and livestock production.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Reaping the Benefits of Cover Crops In this episode, we’ll learn more about the benefits of cover crops and how they can fit into your nutrient management plan. KAS technical agronomists, Lacie Thomas and Evan King, discuss how cover crops can become a cash crop, improve soil health and also act as nitrogen scavengers.

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Agwired

MAY 20, 2024

New Holland – J Cole Sanford, Cash Crop Product Specialist AEM Ag on the Mall - J Cole Sanford, New Holland 4:14 2024 Celebration of Modern Agriculture on the Mall An added benefits is being able to talk with elected officials and regulators. You can hear more about what he has to say in our interview.

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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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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year?

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The non-dormant alfalfa planted as an annual can yield three cuttings as a cash crop and then winter-kill. Researchers have found that the annual alfalfa leaves enough nitrogen in the soil for a barley or corn crop the next year.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Increasing crop diversity lowers our reliance on these products and improves water quality. Adding cover crops into rotations helps keep soil in place when cash crops arent growing. Increase Resilience Planting different crops ensures some thrive, no matter what.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition. *The estimate for ammonium sulfate may be 50% too high (Chien et al., Another cause of soil pH problems is the slow loss of organic matter.

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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.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai. That’s why they don’t have to do cash cropping and why they prohibit chemicals in the area,” Trakansuphakon tells Food Tank. They earn income from forest products and beekeeping.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

It is a remarkable crop that protects like a cover crop and pays like a cash crop. “Camelina represents a key feedstock for the production of renewable fuels and sustainable aviation fuel.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cash crops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. No-till or reduced-tillage practices help maintain soil integrity, minimize soil disturbance, and prevent carbon loss.

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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. The farm’s organic certification means he is unable to use synthetic pesticides, so he instead relies on natural controls for his wheat, lentils, peas, alfalfa, mustard and coriander. It’s for the grasshoppers. Does it work?

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

Since we’re also looking at how cover crops can impact physical and biological soil properties, including soil carbon levels, as well as water infiltration rate, being able to measure the actual “cover” and plant matter from the cover crop is an important piece of information.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

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. The diversity of players helps foster innovation, “just like tech and Silicon Valley,” he adds.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

As I already said, they increase organic matter and improve soil structure, and leguminous covers can add nitrogen to the soil for the next crop without increasing salinity. Cover crops can also help break some pest and disease cycles. But it’s difficult for growers to sacrifice valuable high tunnel space for a non-cash crop.

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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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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Big ag continues its outsized presence on the islands in the form of seed companies—GMO seed corn is Hawaii’s top cash crop —so the power they exert “is a big obstacle to systemic change,” she says.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

We are allowing our groundwater (which is our water savings account) to be depleted to grow cash crops for wealthy corporations. But maybe our main concern should be about future food and nutrition security.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Because a farm’s acreage largely determines what it grows, cash crops with a high upfront cost often make less sense for small-scale farmers. “To To grow mainstream cash crops like corn and soybeans, you have to have the know-how. You have to have a large enough size to really compete and thrive,” said Mamo.

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