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.

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Without access to markets and appropriate infrastructure (think: organic grain elevators and slaughterhouses) growers can’t fetch added premiums for sustainable practices. And finally, the weekend gathering highlighted yet another perk to regenerative farming: “mind-blowing” produce cultivated in rich healthy soil. “It

Agriculture 142

Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 142

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The delays in payment could be devastating. To note: Hemp contains only.3

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. In 2014, the amount of land devoted to tobacco cultivation, as a portion of all U.S. Photo by John West. Scott plants most of his acreage in sweet potatoes now.

Farming 108

Farming Farming Acre Crop 108