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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Compost Fertilizer Crop Cash Crop 52

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. The larger harvest follows two years of poor production and a historic run of inverted futures markets that sapped profitability for storing wheat. A modest rebound in U.S.

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Manufacturing Seeding Harvesting Supply Chain 45

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. Research shows that allowing cover crops to grow to significant heights can dramatically reduce pollution.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

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. Rolling a field of a cover like cereal rye depends on the timing. But farm-chemical exposure is no laughing matter.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

From their perspective, these are future clients, or they may be existing clients,” said Ben Lilliston, the director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. 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

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. We are female; we are male.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 136

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. A ‘hand primer harvester’ at Scott Farms in Lucama, North Carolina. Photo by John West. Scott plants most of his acreage in sweet potatoes now. Photo by John West.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 85