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.

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Crop Crop Rotation Farming Farming 40

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At its core, it’s about working with nature, rather than against it, to achieve sustainable and resilient food production. Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 105

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 118

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. In fact, the Toxic Substances Control Act banned them in 1979 from further production in the United States. Hes serious, measured, and focused, but also kind.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

The first documents ever written were about agricultural production! 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. In addition, the soil sinks about one inch per month in some places here.

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Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 83

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Crop Rotation 87

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

To meet consumer demands for sustainably produced food In the past, knowing where food products came from (country of origin labeling) was one of the top concerns for many consumers. Now, the concern is not only where a food product came from but also how its ingredients were grown.

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Beverage Food Farming Farming 52