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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. 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

Agwired

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. It is valued for its low water usage, quick maturity, and resilient yields. It is a remarkable crop that protects like a cover crop and pays like a cash crop.

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From Symptoms to Solutions: Addressing the Underlying Causes of Water Quality Degradation – Part 4

UnderstandingAg

Overapplying readily available N can also interfere with the uptake of other nutrients and lead to yield drag and profit loss, just as underapplying can. Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Most N demand is in midsummer. This is nonsense.

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

Civil Eats

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. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested.

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

Civil Eats

The cost can be prohibitive, and it can be tricky to fit them into a conventional row-cropping system. A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans.

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An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

Agritecture Blog

His soybean and wheat crops were also impacted. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre.

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