UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

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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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

There has been much more research on the fertility needs of high-value, warm-season tunnel crops, like tomatoes, than on cool-season greens. But a few studies have indicated that increasing amounts of nitrogen fertilizer has little effect on yield in cool-season tunnel greens production.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

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. In agriculture, growers must work with quality earth that contains healthy levels of soil nutrients.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. Soil health is a holistic measure of soil function.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips or other noncrop strips along fields also offer refugia for beneficial species or, depending on species used, can act as trap crops that lure pests away from a cash crop. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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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. The type of herbicide depends on which cover crop is used and the timing for spring planting.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Understanding your soil (loamy, clay, etc), the PH, and the other trace nutrients that are available in your soil is vital to growing healthy crops. Growth and Yield: Many types of grass are perennials and have regrowth ability. Combining different hay types, such as grass-legume mixes, can enhance forage quality and yield.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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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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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Land use change is the thing that matters, and it’s the openness to change that the big guys exhibit that is going to make a dent in agricultural emissions, sequestrations, nutritional yield, and worker well-being.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

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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. The yield required to make it work is becoming, you know, nearly a record crop every year,” said Brandon Batten, a farmer in Four Oaks, North Carolina.

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