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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

British farmers have observed positive results that resemble those observed at the Menoken Farm, including pH balancing, organic matter accumulation, weed suppression and yield bumps in subsequent cash crops. In 1971, the soils on his family farm in Ohio contained 0.75% organic matter and a pH as low as 4.2

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

Half an hour outside Portland, the 50-acre family farm is known for its ice cream and freshly churned cheddar, made from the milk of 20 pastured-grazed cows and sold a stone’s throw away at the farm stand and in a few local restaurants. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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