Cash Crop Cultivation Harvest 
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. But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow.
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.
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ATTRA
DECEMBER 23, 2024
After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. 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.
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 found that undersowing the clover was an amazing way to get the field covered by harvest. But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year?
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. Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s.
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. Their insight is essential to creating sustainable, culturally sensitive, and region-specific policies, she says.
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. A ‘hand primer harvester’ at Scott Farms in Lucama, North Carolina.
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