Cash Crop Fertilizer Science 
UnderstandingAg
APRIL 3, 2025
By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. Its much more complex than that. The western half of the fields pH rose from 5.8
UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Anything with a positive charge is called a cation in science-speak. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Its much more complex than that. Urea 46-0-0 1.8
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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.
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?
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.
World Agri-Tech
JANUARY 3, 2024
If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. A great example is Oerth Bio’s work to develop PROTACs that will help crops manage through environmental stressors without losing yield. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.
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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