Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase production and develop the sorghum marketplace. is primarily turned into ethanol fuel and livestock feed—two of the most fossil-fuel intensive agricultural products. “If While she supports the expansion of sorghum production in the U.S., However, sorghum in the U.S.

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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. Protein Protein is an essential building block for all animals to maintain their health, growth, and productivity. There isn't a one-size-fits-all when growing hay.

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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.

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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. He was aware that the products he developed were harmful but they also produced an abundance of food.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations. It sounds dreadful, doesn’t it?

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” The past 10 years have demonstrated that practical, user-facing tech on the production side can make a difference in what consumers (e.g. Crops take time to grow.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A review from earlier this year found that only a third of published studies in which researchers compared fields that were cover-cropped with those that weren’t reported significant gains in soil carbon. And a study published last month illustrated one major reason why farmers may be reluctant to plant cover crops.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell.

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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. Back at the barn, companies that sell their products at The Mill had set up folding tables to talk to farmers and hand out swag. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. they yelled.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before the conflict, Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, contributing to an agricultural sector that was worth over $575m a year Agriculture in Gaza had its own issues prior to the war. Don’t leave us alone, we’re not okay.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

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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 companies set the prices, and if you don’t have what they want, Scott said, they “don’t want it at any price.” Photo by John West.

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