Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Women tend to concentrate their agricultural activities around the homestead, primarily because of their domestic and reproductive roles; they play a critical role in food production, post-harvest activities, livestock care, and increasingly in cash cropping.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Since the exact type of diversity affects the impacts, its difficult to generalize which benefits result from crop diversity on your land.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a way to boost the soil quality in vineyards. Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bottom line: more crops better. Anthropocene Magazine has a handy summary of recent research into crop diversity on the North China Plain. Bottom line: adding more crops to the current dominant rotation of wheat and maize increases yields and profits, sequesters more carbon in the soil and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. For them, a temporary break from cropping might be a good option. In the UK, it is common practice to introduce leys into the cropping rotation. in some spots. in some spots.

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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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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Since the exact type of diversity affects the impacts, its difficult to generalize which benefits result from crop diversity on your land.

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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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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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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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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

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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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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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. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are documenting Lincoln’s living cover crop system, where he undersows Dutch white clover into vegetables after the last cultivation in July. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Periodic mowing keeps it under control and adds a green manure mulch to the crops.

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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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UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

It is mid-summer, and that time of the year to order your winter cover crop seeds. In the previous article about winter cover crops for market gardens, I highlighted the important role winter cover crops play in providing diversity and building soil health. I consider this the Swiss Army knife of cover cropping.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Selling the ripper and investing the money into well-planned cover crops is a safer bet. There are several strategies we can use to maximize ground cover in crop fields throughout the growing season. Cover crops are the “Swiss army knife” of tools for addressing compaction.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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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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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. What’s in It for Farmers?

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Lastly, ever increasing crop yields over the decades has meant more calcium (Ca 2+ ), magnesium (Mg 2+ ) and potassium (K + ) leaves the field at harvest, which has the same effect as them leaching in high rainfall areas because H + is allowed to reign, and the balance of positively charged nutrients is thrown out of whack. *The

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

Additional monitoring for spider mites and predatory insects will soon take place as part of a biological control experiment on three of the orchards with cover crops, which were planted in fall of 2020. “ Why take cover crop samples?”, ”, you might ask.

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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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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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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. With increased crop successions comes increased soil preparation and tillage that can impact soil structure.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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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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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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