National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. For many livestock producers, the few grazing areas left that haven’t dried up because of lack of water have now been eaten by the grasshoppers,” says Comeau. It’s for the grasshoppers. Does it work?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Rather than laying out imperatives, the state act helps “gently lead people” towards regenerative practices, says the bill’s author, State Senator Bruce Gillespie, by recognizing the benefits of soil conservation and range management, particularly through rotational livestock grazing.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Some regions have expanded their focus to include climate-smart ranching practices, including managed grazing and resilient cropping systems , which can mitigate the environmental and climate impacts of industrial livestock production. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. is primarily turned into ethanol fuel and livestock feed—two of the most fossil-fuel intensive agricultural products. “If However, sorghum in the U.S.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. This can include a rotation of cash crops , cover crops , and even fallow periods to allow the soil to rest and rejuvenate.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. When Byron died, he willed 200 acres of land and increments of cash to each of his children, but most of them had migrated north because they wanted to get as far away from Warren County as they could, Patrick Brown says.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

We should feed the soil more like we feed ourselves and our livestock. Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. It would open up opportunities to grow diverse, N-fixing summer cover crop mixes that could be grazed by livestock.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But Weil and other experts also say cover cropping can be a “gateway practice” for implementing the five principles of soil health promoted by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service or NRCS: armor the soil, minimize disturbance (i.e., Plant diversity and covering the land has long been associated with more resilient soil.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It took transitioning to no-till, keeping my soils covered (armored), making sure there was a living root in the soil as long as possible, adding a diverse array of cash crops and cover crops, and integrating livestock into my cropland acres for my soils to significantly advance.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell. The blight spread by wind and splashing rain; it also hitched rides on insects and birds.

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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.” A great example is Oerth Bio’s work to develop PROTACs that will help crops manage through environmental stressors without losing yield.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, pomegranates, citrus, watermelons, potatoes, barley, wheat and many other fruits and vegetables. Livestock including cattle, sheep, goats and poultry, were also raised. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And if you are a nay-sayer, or fearful of promoting more vegetation, I ask you this:Is a little vegetation scaring you more than the dead, compacted soil your cash crop is growing in? Last Thoughts There are many other practices to discuss, and one of the most powerful vegetation biomass tools is livestock integration.

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