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. Camelina can be planted on fallow land or land left idle between crop cycles. It is valued for its low water usage, quick maturity, and resilient yields.

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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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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. Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health?

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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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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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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. Understanding your soil (loamy, clay, etc), the PH, and the other trace nutrients that are available in your soil is vital to growing healthy crops.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

When striving to grow lush, healthy plants that produce favourable yields, soil nutrient quality must be high. However, soil nutrients are often quickly depleted due to natural elements, poor farming practices, and inappropriate fertilizer product selections.

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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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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. 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. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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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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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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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. farmers grow annual crops on into a carbon sink.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Overapplying readily available N can also interfere with the uptake of other nutrients and lead to yield drag and profit loss, just as underapplying can. Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Most N demand is in midsummer. This is nonsense.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Heroes are People who do the work on farms.

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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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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In this blog, I will begin linking regenerative principles to simple practices, which ultimately lead to increased photosynthesis throughout the year, which in turn lead to positive compounding effects to improving soil function, the farm ecosystem, and farm economics. This advice is contrary to the conventional approach.

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