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

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. The delays in payment could be devastating.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

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. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

Pesticide

Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop

Agriculture Informer

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

Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

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