Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. 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.

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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. According to the FAO , ecosystems play a crucial role in agriculture by providing vital services like nutrient cycling, soil fertility, and water regulation.

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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

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. Establishing a cover crop is priority one in the fall. Most N demand is in midsummer.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

It’s no secret that keeping soil ripe with fertile nutrients – such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, requires effort and care. However, soil nutrients are often quickly depleted due to natural elements, poor farming practices, and inappropriate fertilizer product selections.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

These indicators include fertilizer and crop protection usage, irrigation, cover crop and tillage practices, and equipment emissions. EcoField data uses the most comprehensive, field-level data on more than 50 sustainable agriculture practices and inputs.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

A fertile land can be a fertile civilization The swath of land between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in Mesopotamia was one of the most fertile lands known to humans, as was the riparian land of the Nile River in Ancient Egypt. Excessive fertilization has polluted aquifers with nitrates.

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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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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. The type of herbicide depends on which cover crop is used and the timing for spring planting.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations. It sounds dreadful, doesn’t it?

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.”

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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. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack , cover crops are being asked to do something new and high-stakes: draw atmospheric carbon into the soil to help fight climate change.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell.

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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. In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, pomegranates, citrus, watermelons, potatoes, barley, wheat and many other fruits and vegetables. Gazans had been encouraged over the years to produce cash crops for export using extractive methods, as has been widespread across the world.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Power of State Policymaking The Cohort for Rural Opportunity and Prosperity (CROP)—a subset of SiX’s Agriculture and Food Systems program—currently includes elected officials from 43 states who are positioned to advance socially and ecologically responsible rural, agricultural, and food policy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

million pageviews per month The New Republic Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. His father told him tobacco was for cropping, not smoking, and he abides by that dictum. A bad or failed crop could end the operation. He’s never smoked.

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