Modern Farmer
MARCH 31, 2025
Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications. Researchers found that corn grown in a corn/soybean/wheat rotation and with a mixture of three cover crops had yields 100% higher than corn grown in monoculture.
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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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.
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.
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.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
And when nitrates are present, it’s inevitable that other contaminants, such as pesticides , are also polluting the water. Research shows that allowing cover crops to grow to significant heights can dramatically reduce pollution. We’re allowing this to happen,” says Caitlin Meyer, the water resources coordinator for the Olmsted SWCD.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.
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