ATTRA
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The big five cash crops for winter in Florida are leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and blueberries. The good news for small-scale growers in Florida is that these winter cash crops can be profitable on limited acreage.
UnderstandingAg
JUNE 20, 2024
However, we have to remember that because of the use of herbicides, ALL of these areas are kept completely void of any vegetation growing in and between the rows, other than the cash crop. The photos represent most Midwestern farmland and much of the farmland in the continental U.S.,
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The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made available more than $100 million in funds to help farmers establish cover crops. farmland is regularly cover cropped. The cost can be prohibitive, and it can be tricky to fit them into a conventional row-cropping system.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases. Similarly, polycultures and agroforestry systems can reduce outbreaks of pests.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. Rolling a field of a cover like cereal rye depends on the timing. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. The delays in payment could be devastating.
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