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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

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But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow. Okra Leaves Bush okra or jute mallows are thick, succulent leaves that yield a slimy sauce like okra pods. Harvest the leaves when young and tender, as older leaves can be fibrous.

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The Dirt on Cover Crops

Modern Farmer

Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? All cash crops (what farmers grow to sell) pull nutrients out of the soil as they mature. It’s important to replenish those nourishing substances after every harvest so future crops can also flourish.

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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils to Sell Camelina Seed

Agwired

Camelina can be planted on fallow land or land left idle between crop cycles. It is valued for its low water usage, quick maturity, and resilient yields. Camelina protects land like a cover crop providing a range of environmental benefits, including soil health and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Use These 3 Tips to Improve Soil Nutrient Levels

Agriculture for Life

When striving to grow lush, healthy plants that produce favourable yields, soil nutrient quality must be high. This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields. In agriculture, growers must work with quality earth that contains healthy levels of soil nutrients.

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

Civil Eats

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.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

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Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. The cost can be prohibitive, and it can be tricky to fit them into a conventional row-cropping system.

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