Cash Crop Crop Pesticide 
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.
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. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.
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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.
UnderstandingAg
MAY 3, 2024
This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better. Most N demand is in midsummer.
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.
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. Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. This means farms have to keep the crop alive and use up precious water resources in an already water-restricted environment.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. And they will use one or two orders of magnitude less water, with no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.
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