UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is exactly what Jay Fuhrer and the team at the Menoken Farm did starting in 2013. In 2022, the farm averaged 8.7% Its much more complex than that.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Iowa Learning Farm: Intercropping can give farmers a way to grow three cash crops in a two-year rotation cycle, while adding a conservation practice on their farm.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Types of Crop Diversification Growing tomatoes and lettuce side by side maximizes space.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Types of Crop Diversification Growing tomatoes and lettuce side by side maximizes space.

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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. Healthy soil can absorb and retain water more effectively, helping crops withstand droughts and floods.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? What are the drawbacks of using cover crops?

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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. Soil prep increases time, labor, and overall farming costs, and potentially increases soil disturbance. broccoli or kale).

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

When he needed added biomass, he experimented with undersowing Dutch white clover into early harvested crops, mowing the post-harvest crop, and then drilling rye into the clover. But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year?

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation. Planting shorter-maturity cash crops is one strategy to allow more time to get cover crops established in the fall and/or let them grow longer in the spring. There are many ways to “fill the calendar” with living roots.

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Organic Farming Research

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To address this need, OFRF has developed a Crop-Livestock Integration series informed by interviews with highly experienced organic producers across the US whose farming operations have benefited from integrated crop and livestock production.

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UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

miles vertically, much of it in Rock Dell Township, Minnesota where our farm is. This satellite image reveals that nearly every foot of this area has been tilled and "turned black," which is typical of "ag country." The image was taken on June 2, 2022, right after planting, but before the typical row crops were growing.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In addition to learning about regenerative farming practices, the diverse group had gathered to understand how state-level agricultural legislation can bring about climate resilience, food security, and social equity. Historically, that space has been dominated by state level farm bureaus and the larger federal, Kimbirauskas says.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The base of the restoration work is in their rotational farming system, also called the fallow system or swidden agriculture. The type of rotational farming that Hin Lad Nai engages in, which includes what is sometimes known as slashing and burning, did not originally fit with the Thai government’s conservation strategy.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Small-scale operations account for nearly 90 percent of the 570 million farms around the world. Farmers in these groups can typically cover their basic needs with the cash crops they produce, yet prosperity often remains out of reach. The report is focused on semi-commercial and small-commercial small-scale farmers.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

The ice cream shop is an extension of the Nicholson family’s sixth-generation, 120-acre farm in nearby Ferndale. milk supply, mostly on industrial farms in the Central Valley. These farms hold, on average, around 2,300 cows. Herds in Wisconsin, the second-largest producer, average 177 cows.) It’s one of a kind.”

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

For example, if a fall-winter cash crop was turned over and immediately planted to a spring crop, the summer-winter mix is a good follow up to provide an extended period of rest through the winter. You can also inter-seed winter species to a summer cash crop.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Soil is the foundation of your farm, the living system that provides nutrition for all the plants and animals that live there. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health? Rotate your crops. Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

The same is true for farm sustainability data. Why are we talking about the accuracy and reliability of farm carbon emissions data? Because it’s the future of quantifying sustainable farming practices — and it has a much more far-reaching effect than just agriculture.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been busy the past several weeks setting up the Biologically Integrated Orchards Systems (BIOS) project at six demonstration sites located in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. “ Why take cover crop samples? “ Why take cover crop samples?”, ”, you might ask.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Researchers with University of Idaho Extension are testing non-dormant alfalfa varieties as a means of improving soil health and fixing nitrogen, reports Idaho Farm Bureau Federation. The non-dormant alfalfa planted as an annual can yield three cuttings as a cash crop and then winter-kill.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Syngenta Seeds was pleased to make a big announcement the first day of Farm Progress Show Tuesday about a new agreement with Sustainable Oils, Inc. 2023 Farm Progress Show interview with Eric Boeck, Syngenta Seeds 4:46 “We are very excited to partner with Syngenta Seeds on this collaboration to expand camelina’s growth in the U.S.,”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Dana Cronin March 3, 2023 Last year’s drought took a severe toll on Zack Rendel’s farm. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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Agwired

MAY 20, 2024

New Holland – J Cole Sanford, Cash Crop Product Specialist AEM Ag on the Mall - J Cole Sanford, New Holland 4:14 2024 Celebration of Modern Agriculture on the Mall An added benefits is being able to talk with elected officials and regulators. You can hear more about what he has to say in our interview.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. This means farms have to keep the crop alive and use up precious water resources in an already water-restricted environment. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

and the decision of which type of hay to grow is unique to each farm operation. We hope this helps you better understand all the options and what you might want to grow on your farm. Unfortunately, extreme weather is becoming more and more common and will negatively affect the growth of your hay crop.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

When you step into a high tunnel, you’re moving off your farm in terms of temperature, humidity, and frost dates. Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farm Foundation , an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its 2024 annual suite of awards celebrating significant achievements in the agriculture and food sectors. American Seed Trade Association is excited to welcome Martha Malapi as Director, Seed Health & Trade.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

However, soil nutrients are often quickly depleted due to natural elements, poor farming practices, and inappropriate fertilizer product selections. Soil is negatively impacted by chemically-based farming products that are low in organic matter content.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

The display exemplified how, as Land O’Lakes’ annual report laid out earlier that year, the agricultural giant is marketing enrollment in a climate-smart farming initiative alongside its biggest profit driver: pesticides and seeds. They’re getting a tremendous amount of data from the farmer-participants.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Annual crops take up only about half of the nitrogen applied, and the rest often ends up polluting groundwater in the form of nitrate.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cover crops, proponents argue, can soak up carbon dioxide, via photosynthesis, when fields are normally bare. Cover crops, like this clover growing on a farm in Wilbur, Washington, have proven beneficial for preventing soil erosion and chemical runoff that fouls waterways. Photo by Edwin Remsberg/VWPics via AP Images.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. a century ago found their way to Allensworth.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Diverse, regeneratively managed farms and ranches often outproduce their conventional counterparts on a total calories per acre basis, and that food is typically higher in nutritional quality. This is nonsense.

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