Agric4profits

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It emphasizes the use of organic inputs, ensuring healthy crop growth while maintaining soil fertility and ecosystem balance. Organic cabbage farming relies on eco-friendly techniques like composting and crop rotation. Organic cabbage farming is a sustainable method that avoids synthetic chemicals, focusing on natural practices.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Soil health refers to the ability of soil to function as a living ecosystem that supports plants, animals, and humans. Healthy soil is crucial for agriculture,

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Farmers rely on organic fertilizers, natural pest control, and sustainable practices to ensure a healthy crop while protecting the environment. By using compost, green manures, and crop rotation, farmers maintain soil fertility and enhance… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Cucumber Farming

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

This sustainable approach supports healthier crops while preserving the environment for future generations. Organic Guinea Corn farming promotes biodiversity by encouraging crop rotation, intercropping, and the use of organic compost.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It is ideal for farmers aiming for eco-friendly and healthy crop production. Organic cowpea farming relies on natural inputs like compost and organic fertilizers. Organic cowpea farming is a sustainable agricultural practice focusing on growing cowpeas without synthetic chemicals.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 13, 2025

Organic Barley Farming prioritizes the use of organic inputs like compost, manure, and cover crops to nourish the soil. Organic Barley Farming is the practice of cultivating barley without the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 11, 2025

It emphasizes natural methods to ensure healthier crops and a better environment. By using organic fertilizers and compost, it helps in reducing environmental degradation caused by conventional farming practices. Organic Mandarin farming is an agricultural approach focused on growing mandarins without synthetic chemicals.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 9, 2025

This method produces healthier crops. Organic walnut farming requires the use of natural inputs, such as compost and cover crops,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Walnut Farming Organic walnut farming benefits the environment by reducing chemical use and improving sustainability.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 12, 2025

Organic beet farming uses crop rotation, composting, and natural pest control to maintain soil fertility. Organic beet farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing beets without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Farmers use compost, manure, and green cover crops to enrich… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Orange Farming This farming method emphasizes natural fertilizers and sustainable practices to produce healthy, chemical-free fruits. Its gaining popularity due to the rising demand for organic produce.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

On an unseasonably sunny day in March, at a community garden in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, Dan Gross and Shaq Benn moved piles of wood chips and hosed down shoulder-high windrows of compost. Tucked underneath elevated train tracks, Know Waste Lands is the home base of the compost-hauling nonprofit BK Rot.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Packaged poop can take hundreds of years to break down, even in bags deemed compostable or biodegradable; certifications that are based on commercial composting conditions, not landfills—but US industrial composting facilities don’t accept pet waste. In the US, dog parks are catching on.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic oil palm farming focuses on enhancing soil health through compost, organic fertilizers, and crop rotation. This method supports eco-friendly practices and ensures healthier, chemical-free palm oil. This… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Oil Palm Farming

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This analysis found that AFRI has historically funded low levels of organic research, while the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) has been erratic in supporting organic research projects. This initiative trains future plant breeders and develops new crop varieties specifically suited for organic systems.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 10, 2025

To help you start and manage a successful small- or large-scale compost business, or how to best compost on your small farm, we have shared some insights in this article.

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Caff

JUNE 3, 2022

Spreadwing Farm, located in the Capay Valley, utilizes compost in their vegetable crops to improve the quality of the soil and provide plant available nutrients. Learn more about the benefits, tradeoffs, and challenges Liz Schroeder of Spreadwing Farm has seen with compost application. Read the case study here.

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

On April 10th, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) hosted a field day at Heartwood Farms in Linden, CA with farmers Franz Eilers and Emma Wade to discuss all things compost and pest management on their biologically-integrated walnut and cherry orchards. The compost created from ground-up walnut prunings and cover crop mowings.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 6, 2025

. – Michael Phillips, The Apple Grower Understanding the Connection Between Soil Fungi and Orchard Health By Chuck Schembre, Understanding Ag, LLC All orchard crops fruit trees, nut crops, grapes and berries are perennial plants which have developed a strong symbiotic relationship with fungal life, both in the soil and the plant canopy.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. Understanding when and how much nitrogen becomes available after applying organic fertilizers is essential for effective nutrient management and maximizing crop yield.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Yet with California’s agricultural hub dominated by large-scale farms and commodity crops, he’s found a comfortable niche at his local farmers market.

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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.

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RR2CS

MARCH 29, 2022

Topic: Biochar, Compost, and Agroforestry – Three Keystones of Soil and Climate Resilience for Alberta Date: May 4th at 1:00PM Presenter: Rob Lavoie of AirTerra Cost: FREE Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that is made by burning organic material from agricultural and food wastes. Want to prepare for the webinar?

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Farmers use natural methods such as crop rotation, composting,… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Curry Farming The focus is on maintaining soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and following sustainable farming practices.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

These collaborations have provided snapshots of how practices like compost, cover crops, livestock integration and reduced tillage (to name a few) can impact soil health on a given farm in a given region.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This process is particularly crucial in leguminous crops such as soybeans, peas, and alfalfa, which heavily rely on molybdenum for efficient nitrogen fixation. This antagonistic effect of sulfur on molybdenum uptake can result in impaired nitrogen fixation in leguminous crops and other metabolic imbalances in plants.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Virginia farmer Nicky Schauder, of Permaculture Gardens in Virginia, received a two-year Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Producer Grant to support testing aerated compost tea as a fertility source for organic farming. Project results are available online from Southern SARE.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We wanted to stop the fires and decided to introduce crops that would help us do so,” Garcia Martinez remembers. “We Just like Indigenous people in Oaxaca, and beyond, grow their main crops—corn, beans, and zucchini together on one plot called milpa —they often do the same with other plants, including vanilla. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 8, 2025

It surely wouldn't stop chemical fertilizers and bring in compost. Can you imagine if in order for a corn farmer to receive crop insurance he had to submit his corn to a nutritional analysis to determine benchmark? But that wouldn't reduce factory farmed animals. It wouldn't eliminate poisons in vegetables. Therein lies the rub.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

Here, growers are making fresh kokoleka, or chocolate in lelo Hawaii (Hawaiian language), through mindful agricultural practices: creating their own soil and compost, contracting with locals, and using organic fertilizer. Each bean is hand sorted and graded, with the lowest turned to compost.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. What’s in It for Farmers?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

22, 2024 , modeled carbon emissions from farming activities like watering and fertilizing crops and from building and maintaining the farms. On average, our sites used compost to replace 95% of synthetic nutrients. We found that careful compost management could cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After half their farm’s crops were wiped out by a devastating heat wave in 2018, Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos, co-founders of Solidarity Farm, changed their practices with the explicit goal of adding more carbon to the soil, or “carbon farming.” Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos. They’ll [say], ‘Hey, are you able to fulfill this?’

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

This method promotes healthier crops and a safer environment. Organic Tangerine Farming requires natural methods for pest control, soil fertility, and crop growth. Farmers use organic fertilizers and compost to ensure… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Tangerine Farming

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I love direct seeding crops; it feels like an act of faith that the seeds won’t fail, or the weeds won’t choke them out. I use a silage tarp to break down plant matter from previous crops. I remove debris with a rake, use a wheel hoe or a push tiller set at a shallow depth, or add an inch of compost.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

And finally, disease--the average farmer lives in abject paranoia that the next epizootic will wipe out his crop, herd, or flock. The action is on the fringes, where compost replaces chemicals and where diversity replaces monocrops. Then the price; the poor farmer never gets a fair shake and the middleman makes it all. They never end.

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