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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

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However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. Winter Squash Leaves All parts of the squash family plants are edible, from leaves to stems, flowers, fruit, skin, and seeds. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds.

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Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils to Sell Camelina Seed

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Syngenta Seeds was pleased to make a big announcement the first day of Farm Progress Show Tuesday about a new agreement with Sustainable Oils, Inc. 2023 Farm Progress Show interview with Eric Boeck, Syngenta Seeds 4:46 “We are very excited to partner with Syngenta Seeds on this collaboration to expand camelina’s growth in the U.S.,”

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Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking

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The big five cash crops for winter in Florida are leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and blueberries. The good news for small-scale growers in Florida is that these winter cash crops can be profitable on limited acreage.

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Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system

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But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year? Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. The cash crop can get ahead of the clover and by the time the clover spreads and gains altitude, the crop is well established.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

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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. In 2023, he used the program’s funds to grow his cover crop to 12 inches.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. Now its OK to talk about, because now we actually have a little bit of ownership in the process, he says. Its like full circle.

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The Best Types of Hay to Choose for Your Livestock

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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.