Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cash crops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. No-till or reduced-tillage practices help maintain soil integrity, minimize soil disturbance, and prevent carbon loss.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

It embodies our commitment to sustainability and our drive to bring innovative solutions to market.” It is a remarkable crop that protects like a cover crop and pays like a cash crop. There is no marketing risk for the farmer since there is already an integrated value chain model.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Critics of this approach will likely argue that it would require too much labor and take too many acres to grow cover crop seed. Corn, for example, typically uses very little nitrogen in the first month of growth.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

NSP also plans to use a significant portion of its USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant to bolster the biofuels market. Because a farm’s acreage largely determines what it grows, cash crops with a high upfront cost often make less sense for small-scale farmers. “To NSP is working on expanding the market, according to York.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

As I already said, they increase organic matter and improve soil structure, and leguminous covers can add nitrogen to the soil for the next crop without increasing salinity. Cover crops can also help break some pest and disease cycles. But it’s difficult for growers to sacrifice valuable high tunnel space for a non-cash crop.

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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.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. I was young, I was in my 20s.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

Analyzing sales from just one market isn’t going to give you an accurate representation of what’s happening in all of your markets. When it comes to data, the more you have, the more reliable your results. The same is true for farm sustainability data.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Crops take time to grow. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips or other noncrop strips along fields also offer refugia for beneficial species or, depending on species used, can act as trap crops that lure pests away from a cash crop. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Compatibility With Other Crops: Some hay crops, like clover, can improve soil fertility through nitrogen fixation, making them good choices for crop rotation systems. Market Demand : You might also choose to sell your surplus hay. This is one of the highest quality feeds for livestock as well as a cash crop.

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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. This particular case centered around whether tribes had to pay local and state taxes on ancestral land that they bought back on the real estate market.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And there’s a new and potentially powerful player in the game: private carbon markets that are starting to pay farmers for the carbon they sequester. But as the hype for cover crops mounts, so does the scrutiny. New research suggests that cover crops may struggle to make a significant dent in agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Land O’Lakes, the company known to most Americans only as a longtime purveyor of butter wrapped in bright yellow packaging, had two adjoining tables showcasing two of its more specialized businesses: pesticides and carbon markets. Think: planting trees that hold carbon in South America to balance emissions from a factory in South Carolina.

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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? Here are some tips: Organic herbicides There are some good organic herbicides on the market and this industry is about to greatly improve.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Without access to markets and appropriate infrastructure (think: organic grain elevators and slaughterhouses) growers can’t fetch added premiums for sustainable practices. In past decades, the large-scale consolidation of the food supply chain has reduced processing, aggregation, and transportation to a handful of companies.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Scott has contracts with several tobacco companies, each of which wants its tobacco grown and prepared just so: light or dark, thick or thin, whatever its part of the market wants. tobacco companies worked very hard to create new smokers and develop a robust market here and abroad. marketing and advertising ($8.02

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