Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Selecting the right type of hay for your livestock is a critical decision that can significantly impact their health, growth, and productivity. We've added information about different types of hay, the nutrients in hay, and the needs of different types of livestock. Without this livestock cannot function.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 86

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. Healthy soil can absorb and retain water more effectively, helping crops withstand droughts and floods. Healthy soil can absorb and retain water more effectively, helping crops withstand droughts and floods.

Agriculture 104

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 104

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

We should feed the soil more like we feed ourselves and our livestock. High-salt fertilizers add insult to injury by inhibiting soil biology and creating osmotic stress in plants. Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint.

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Pesticide Crop Manure Fertilizer 97

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. When Byron died, he willed 200 acres of land and increments of cash to each of his children, but most of them had migrated north because they wanted to get as far away from Warren County as they could, Patrick Brown says.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Corn requires lots of nitrogen, and it’s by far the most commonly used fertilizer in the United States. Southeastern Minnesota’s Olmsted County is a microcosm of agriculture’s dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. Soil health is a holistic measure of soil function.

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Crop Rotation Farming Farming Fertilizer 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98