Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. They would continue to ask for more information, more documentation, in order to feel comfortable giving him a loan each and every year, Patrick says.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations. It sounds dreadful, doesn’t it?

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 119

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ag-tech that is smart, innovative and actually improves or increases the quality, productivity or profitability of crop and livestock production will find a market and eager adopters.” The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

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 145

Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop 145