UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Acid rain falling downwind of industrial processes acidifies soils much quicker, as was observed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Page 397) Manmade Soil Acidification The processes listed above naturally take a long time to play out and find an equilibrium. Second, rain is naturally slightly acidic and adds H + to the soil.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It is only more recently that I have come to understand proper soil functioning, which is a physical, chemical AND biological process. Through this photosynthetic process, the plant creates energy, cell structure, and biomass. We have often ignored the biological component of soil function.

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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

Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. So far, hes pleased with the new crop. Its like full circle.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

Agricultural chemical products can also speed up natural processes that further deplete soil nutrients. Chemical fertilizers have been proven to pollute soils and cause the depletion of crucial plant-producing nutrients.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

The factors that go into this depend on the type of livestock you raise, how much land you have to graze, what types of hay grow best in your region, whether you will store the hay, will you have access to machinery to process the hay. It's necessary for many critical cell processes, functions, and overall growth.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 86

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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Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Even the dog seems engrossed in the process, watching with head cocked as the club sails through the air. When I met Powell in 2022, he fretted that the chestnut restoration process was taking too long. White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

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Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop 145

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? That’s a thought process that Mount Brydges, Ont., In this field, which was tiled… Read More When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? In this field, which was tiled… Read More When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields?

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Cash Crop Acre Processing Crop 304

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Energy Flow is one of the ecosystem processes, and it can be also referred to as solar energy capture. The first process for anyone in the regenerative transition is to fully understand your farms context and how you can maximize the implementation of the soil health principles.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In past decades, the large-scale consolidation of the food supply chain has reduced processing, aggregation, and transportation to a handful of companies. Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Food 140

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ago and therefore relatively new.

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