National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Specific examples of OREI and ORG outcomes that address these challenges include: Strategic crop rotations that maximize cover, minimize tillage, and limit weed competition in organic grains.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. What’s in It for Farmers?

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farm Management Software Comprehensive farm management software (FMS) platforms consolidate various data sources into a single dashboard, pulling in information from satellites, employees and more enabling farmers to track crop rotation, labor, and pricing. The Small Farm Case Study A small family farm in the western U.S.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Implement a Crop Rotation Plan Crop rotation is the process of growing different crops in a sequential, multi-year cycle. It's important to rotate crops because it helps prevent disease and pests from developing on your land. Consider incorporating legumes into your crop rotation plan.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations. Photo credit: Crop Trust.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors. Those systems still involve cattle being sent to large feedlots.

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Organic Garden Farmer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

And organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, organic herbicides, organic fungicides are still harmful to the organisms they attempt to repel. This was a tropical food forest, previously having been forested area that was converted to cattle pasture, damaged by soil erosion and was now being converted to edible forestation.

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