Major Food and Cash Crops Grown Around the World
Agric4profits
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Food and cash crops play crucial roles in agriculture and the economy. Food crops are primarily grown to feed people, while cash crops are cultivated for sale a
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Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking
ATTRA
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Unlike much of the United States, where farming slows or halts during winter due to cold temperatures and snow, Florida’s mild climate allows for year-round cultivation. This period is ideal for growing crops that thrive in cooler weather, including leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, and blueberries.
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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants
ATTRA
MARCH 12, 2024
Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. They are boiled and cooked and used in various recipes.
Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies
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 is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor.
Indigenous People, Western Science, and Conservation in Thailand
Food Tank
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
A farmer then cultivates that plot of land before leaving it fallow for seven-to-ten-year cycles. According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai. Transition periods between active to fallow land are also accompanied by spiritual rituals.
Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system
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.
These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture
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. The benefits are just so multifaceted,” she says, “that it’s kind of a no-brainer.” I’ve never tasted vegetables like that.”
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