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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

ATTRA

Okra Leaves Bush okra or jute mallows are thick, succulent leaves that yield a slimy sauce like okra pods. However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. They are excellent in green smoothies, pestos, or with fish dishes. It’s best to sell them by the bag with some samples for people to try.

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Addressing Compaction During the Regenerative Transition: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

You will just keep experiencing the same symptoms – surface crusting, ruts, wet spots, stunted growth, lost yield, and many others – until you address the underlying cause of the problem, which is poor aggregate formation and the lack of living roots. We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation.

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Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils to Sell Camelina Seed

Agwired

Camelina can be planted on fallow land or land left idle between crop cycles. It is valued for its low water usage, quick maturity, and resilient yields. Camelina protects land like a cover crop providing a range of environmental benefits, including soil health and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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Understanding pH Part One:

UnderstandingAg

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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Use These 3 Tips to Improve Soil Nutrient Levels

Agriculture for Life

When striving to grow lush, healthy plants that produce favourable yields, soil nutrient quality must be high. This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields. Agricultural chemical products can also speed up natural processes that further deplete soil nutrients.

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

Civil Eats

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. Its like full circle. Farming for us was like a chore, he says.

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

Civil Eats

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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