DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

These indicators include fertilizer and crop protection usage, irrigation, cover crop and tillage practices, and equipment emissions. EcoField data uses the most comprehensive, field-level data on more than 50 sustainable agriculture practices and inputs.

Beverage 52

Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

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. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The PCB Protestsand the Birth of a Movement Oily in texture and without smell or taste, PCBs are synthetic compounds used in manufacturing transformers and other electrical equipment. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms.

Pesticide 130

Pesticide Marketing Seeding Fertilizer 130

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. Linwood Scott III is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer who’s worried about the crop’s “razor-thin margin.” Tobacco manufacturing jobs—de-stemming leaves, making cigarettes—accounted for only 1.6 percent of all manufacturing jobs in the state.

Farming 79

Farming Farming Acre Crop 79