UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

This sets up a situation where a pesticide treatment may be needed, which knocks out beneficial biology that could keep pathogens in check, which leads to a downward spiral of degradation. Improving nitrogen management would reduce our reliance on pesticides, and the entire system would function better.

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Pesticide Crop Manure Fertilizer 81

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. Healthy soil can absorb and retain water more effectively, helping crops withstand droughts and floods. Healthy soil can absorb and retain water more effectively, helping crops withstand droughts and floods.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 96

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Unfortunately, prevention isn’t as easy as spraying the larvae with pesticides. This means farms have to keep the crop alive and use up precious water resources in an already water-restricted environment.

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Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Seeding 83

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. And they will use one or two orders of magnitude less water, with no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 103

Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. Soil health is a holistic measure of soil function.

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Crop Rotation Farming Farming Fertilizer 52

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

EcoField data Inputs Soil type Tillage type Cover crop used Cash crop planted Fertilizer type Nitrogen application rate Irrigation used Crop drying used Pesticide category Machinery used Crop soil moisture Crop residue removal Nitrification inhibitor used Soil organic matter percent How does EcoField data work?

Beverage 52

Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

The intense use of pesticides in the San Joaquin Valley has contributed to air pollution so much that the region is among the top three places with the worst air quality in the United States. Toxic chemicals from pesticides are in the soil polluting community aquifers, and they are almost impossible to clean.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 71