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Crop Diversity Benefits: Why Variety is Key to Sustainable Farming

Modern Farmer

Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications. Researchers found that corn grown in a corn/soybean/wheat rotation and with a mixture of three cover crops had yields 100% higher than corn grown in monoculture.

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From Symptoms to Solutions: Addressing the Underlying Causes of Water Quality Degradation – Part 4

UnderstandingAg

This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better. Most N demand is in midsummer.

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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

At its core, it’s about working with nature, rather than against it, to achieve sustainable and resilient food production. Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms.

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Food, Beverage, and Pet Food Companies Seek Accurate, Reliable Farm Sustainability Data

DTN

For example, here are three instances of how farm carbon emissions data will be used now and in the future by consumer-packaged goods (CPG) companies — in particular, food, beverage, and pet food companies. Now, the concern is not only where a food product came from but also how its ingredients were grown.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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Hungry and Seemingly Unstoppable: Grasshoppers Invade Canada’s Prairies

Modern Farmer

The rest are beneficial to the ecosystem, devouring invasive weeds and providing food for prairie birds like the endangered burrowing owl. Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. It’s for the grasshoppers.

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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits. Source: SEEN.