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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

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. The type of herbicide depends on which cover crop is used and the timing for spring planting.

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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

Land use change is the thing that matters, and it’s the openness to change that the big guys exhibit that is going to make a dent in agricultural emissions, sequestrations, nutritional yield, and worker well-being. Policy support has also been crucial, as have creative financing mechanisms.

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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. The more baroque fantasy, the tale of the miracle crop that founded a nation and ensured our freedom and financed our entry into the modern world?

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