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RealAg Shops, Ep 6: Planning a shop build with Adam Pfeffer

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A cash crop farmer who runs a self-described “small to mid-sized” operation in southwestern Ontario, he also works as a market development manager for Bayer Crop Science. Adam Pfeffer has put a lot of thought into the new shop he’s just finished at his farm at Sparta, Ont. Read More

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Indigenous People, Western Science, and Conservation in Thailand

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Pernilla Malmer, Senior Advisor at SwedBio, tells Food Tank about the “ multiple-evidence base approach ”, which shows that “traditional knowledge of local communities is equally valid to science and brings critical value for complying with international environmental agreements.” They earn income from forest products and beekeeping.

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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. British farmers have observed positive results that resemble those observed at the Menoken Farm, including pH balancing, organic matter accumulation, weed suppression and yield bumps in subsequent cash crops.

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Understanding pH Part One:

UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Kyle Richardville Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Anything with a positive charge is called a cation in science-speak. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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Field Notes from Koch Agronomic Services – Episode 31

Agwired

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Field Notes podcast series from Koch Agronomic Services (KAS) breaks down the science and technology behind agronomy to help growers do more with less. Reaping the Benefits of Cover Crops In this episode, we’ll learn more about the benefits of cover crops and how they can fit into your nutrient management plan.

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

And though the science is inconclusive around the health impacts , dairy products remain a staple in food assistance programs as a source of protein and other essential nutrients. Local dairy also supports the North Coast economy, which has been impacted by price collapses in cannabis, one of the region’s primary cash crops.

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Hungry and Seemingly Unstoppable: Grasshoppers Invade Canada’s Prairies

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Dan Johnson is a professor of environmental science at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. But without much-needed rain, there was very little that could have been done to hold back the hungry hordes. Does it work?

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A pillar of the climate-smart agriculture movement is on shaky ground

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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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

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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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

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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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. A great example is Oerth Bio’s work to develop PROTACs that will help crops manage through environmental stressors without losing yield. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.

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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

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. Photo by John West. Scott plants most of his acreage in sweet potatoes now. These are poor countries, they’re often dependent on a single commodity.

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