Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

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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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Growth and Yield: Many types of grass are perennials and have regrowth ability. Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow. Compatibility With Other Crops: Some hay crops, like clover, can improve soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, making them good choices for crop rotation systems.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Based on the test results and crop requirements, you can begin to adjust pH levels in the soil and any nutrients that are deficient with the addition of lime or sulfur and rock powders and other amendments. High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall. Cover crops can also help break some pest and disease cycles.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. His soybean and wheat crops were also impacted. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It

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Grain Farming Farming Biofuel 52

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

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Cash Crop 52

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. 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.

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Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop 145

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. The yield required to make it work is becoming, you know, nearly a record crop every year,” said Brandon Batten, a farmer in Four Oaks, North Carolina.

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