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The Sharp Edge: Building sprayer tender trailers, with Shawridge Farms

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont., At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont., that responsibility falls primarily to sprayer operator Matthew Musselman. Read More

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

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An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

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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Addressing Compaction During the Regenerative Transition: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Fibrous-rooted species such as annual ryegrass and cereal grain crops help break up compaction near the surface. We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation. Farms applying liquid livestock manure with tankers have a particularly challenging situation.

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

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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Armoring Your Soil for the Winter

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. However, cold hardy cereal grains (i.e.,

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University of Idaho Extension Researchers Explore Raising Annual Alfalfa for Nitrogen

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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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

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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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

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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Industry Ag News 9/22

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. wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat.

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Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

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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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

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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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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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A pillar of the climate-smart agriculture movement is on shaky ground

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. That’s many millions of tons of grain.”

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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

His father told him tobacco was for cropping, not smoking, and he abides by that dictum. Tobacco has been growing on this farm way back before me,” he told me. “I Linwood Scott III is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer who’s worried about the crop’s “razor-thin margin.” Photo by John West.

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The Sharp Edge: Building sprayer tender trailers, with Shawridge Farms

Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

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An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

Addressing Compaction During the Regenerative Transition: Part 2

These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Armoring Your Soil for the Winter

University of Idaho Extension Researchers Explore Raising Annual Alfalfa for Nitrogen

Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

Industry Ag News 9/22

Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

A pillar of the climate-smart agriculture movement is on shaky ground

Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

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