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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Dialing up Diversity One standard approach to cleaning the water that runs off farms is planting cover crops.

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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?

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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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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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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?

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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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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. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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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. Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow. Crops can attract unwanted pests that will also eat the crop.

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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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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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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. A modest rebound in U.S. The 26th annual Plains Peanut Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept.

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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. This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields.

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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The painting reminded him of his elders teaching him to harvest black walnuts and hickories. “I Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily. Nevertheless, the chestnut survived for centuries.

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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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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

The impact of the Israel-Gaza war on food and farming is one aspect of a complex situation that we seek to reveal in this piece by our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Megan Perry. Gazans had been encouraged over the years to produce cash crops for export using extractive methods, as has been widespread across the world.

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