UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Its true that many products and practices widely adopted over the past 100 years intended to solve a problem have created new problems, sometimes more challenging than the ones they were designed to conquer. Introduction Someone wise once said, Were not managing problems in agriculture anymore. Were managing solutions.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding. broccoli or kale).

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

As part of the restoration project, community members planted cash crops, perennial crops, and high-value crops that offered sources of livelihood. When mismanaged or degraded, these ecosystems directly impact agricultural productivity, soil quality, and water availability, affecting food production.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 7, 2025

When we grow a single crop in the same area over and over, we often have to rely on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides to grow healthy plants. Inevitably, some of these products wash out of the soil and into local waterways , leading to a decrease in water quality. This limits erosion and helps keep waterways free from sediment.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

” While revitalizing the community, Jersey Scoops adds a high-value outlet for a perishable product, strengthening the industry overall. The national program helps small and mid-sized dairy producers squeeze more value out of milk by diversifying their products and markets, reducing waste, and innovating packaging and processing.

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CABI

JANUARY 25, 2024

CABI, Kisii County Government and the Micro Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT), has trained farmers on good sustainable agricultural practices to address challenges facing the banana sector which is a key cash crop for smallholder farmers.

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Organic Farming Research

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To address this need, OFRF has developed a Crop-Livestock Integration series informed by interviews with highly experienced organic producers across the US whose farming operations have benefited from integrated crop and livestock production.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sugary foods fuel microbial activity and result in more acid production, which is why candy does what it does to teeth. In the soil, moisture is often the limiting factor to microbial activity, so rain leads to a flurry of microbial feeding, which leads to acid production. range, meaning a slightly acidic environment.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

When we grow a single crop in the same area over and over, we often have to rely on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides to grow healthy plants. Inevitably, some of these products wash out of the soil and into local waterways , leading to a decrease in water quality. This limits erosion and helps keep waterways free from sediment.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As interest in sustainable production grows among consumers and the climate crisis worsens, the world needs to honor farmers’ perspectives. Small-producers, however, are not a contiguous group; how we understand their needs varies widely by product or country, land size or access to market.

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Agwired

MAY 20, 2024

New Holland – J Cole Sanford, Cash Crop Product Specialist AEM Ag on the Mall - J Cole Sanford, New Holland 4:14 2024 Celebration of Modern Agriculture on the Mall An added benefits is being able to talk with elected officials and regulators. You can hear more about what he has to say in our interview.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Their co-created research found that on some farms, the rotational fallow system led to greater agrobiodiversity, greater production, more reliable production, and richer soil. According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai.

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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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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Camelina protects land like a cover crop providing a range of environmental benefits, including soil health and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Camelina represents a key feedstock for the production of renewable fuels and sustainable aviation fuel. It is a remarkable crop that protects like a cover crop and pays like a cash crop.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

Higher temperatures can speed crop growth and increase demands on the soil. Close plant spacings, quick crop successions, and extended seasons, typical in tunnel production, add to those demands. With increased crop successions comes increased soil preparation and tillage that can impact soil structure.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

However, soil nutrients are often quickly depleted due to natural elements, poor farming practices, and inappropriate fertilizer product selections. Selecting the right nutrient-enhancing products for your soil, monitoring soil and plant health, and increasing your fertilizer efficiency can help to maintain soil fertility for many years.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

The first documents ever written were about agricultural production! According to the Salt Control Program of the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV SALTS), “Salt accumulations have resulted in approximately 250,000 acres being taken out of production and 1.5

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Selecting the right type of hay for your livestock is a critical decision that can significantly impact their health, growth, and productivity. Protein Protein is an essential building block for all animals to maintain their health, growth, and productivity. There isn't a one-size-fits-all when growing hay.

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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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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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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase production and develop the sorghum marketplace. is primarily turned into ethanol fuel and livestock feed—two of the most fossil-fuel intensive agricultural products. “If While she supports the expansion of sorghum production in the U.S., However, sorghum in the U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It took transitioning to no-till, keeping my soils covered (armored), making sure there was a living root in the soil as long as possible, adding a diverse array of cash crops and cover crops, and integrating livestock into my cropland acres for my soils to significantly advance.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat. The larger harvest follows two years of poor production and a historic run of inverted futures markets that sapped profitability for storing wheat. A modest rebound in U.S. million to $370.9

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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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. He was aware that the products he developed were harmful but they also produced an abundance of food.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Research shows that allowing cover crops to grow to significant heights can dramatically reduce pollution. So, the program pays a farmer $55 an acre to grow their cover crops to at least 12 inches; at 24 inches, they receive an additional $20 per acre. In 2023, he used the program’s funds to grow his cover crop to 12 inches.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The heroes are new cover crops, nitrogen producing microbes for crops and gene editing to produce never-been-possible-before products and traits.” The past 10 years have demonstrated that practical, user-facing tech on the production side can make a difference in what consumers (e.g. Crops take time to grow.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell. Then, in the late 1800s, horticulturalists imported trees carrying the fungal blight Cryphonectria parasitica to the United States.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A review from earlier this year found that only a third of published studies in which researchers compared fields that were cover-cropped with those that weren’t reported significant gains in soil carbon. And a study published last month illustrated one major reason why farmers may be reluctant to plant cover crops.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. Back at the barn, companies that sell their products at The Mill had set up folding tables to talk to farmers and hand out swag. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. they yelled.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before the conflict, Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, contributing to an agricultural sector that was worth over $575m a year Agriculture in Gaza had its own issues prior to the war.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This greatly enhances seed germination, immediately providing symbiosis to the plant, leading to greater cover crop productivity, and the cost is very cheap per acre. If you know the latent seed bank is rich, and vegetation populates on its own, you just To Seed or Not to Seed a Cover Crop?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Built to serve “a massive, complex, and incredibly productive and efficient food system,” its presence, she adds, is unyielding. Big ag continues its outsized presence on the islands in the form of seed companies—GMO seed corn is Hawaii’s top cash crop —so the power they exert “is a big obstacle to systemic change,” she says.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. In Lebanon, small-scale production is so unprofitable that it could not exist without government subsidies. Photo by John West.

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