UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. Below are some alternative strategies for seeding no-till cover crops at garden scale. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvester 105

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Early Days in the Tobacco Fields Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Brown helped out on the farm, mostly with the tobacco crop, after school and over summers. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. Crop duster airplanes offer ways to target a field infestation through the aerial application of chemicals.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., Photo by John West. Photo by John West.

Farming 108

Farming Farming Acre Crop 108