Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers have increasingly recognized how essential fungi are to sequestering carbon in the soil and some have come to appreciate the outsized role they play in supporting crop health, mitigating climate change, and even sheltering crops from disease. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. His lettuce was drooping.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

There is an array of evidence that MPs impact soil structure, moisture diffusion, microbial activities, crop development, seed germination, nutrient availability, and ultimately threaten the soil ecology and the wider environmental ecosystem due to their persistence and toxicity. And they function as a natural mulch when they finish.

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Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Here are some of the most effective organic amendments: Compost : Compost is one of the most versatile and effective organic amendments for sandy soils. Rich in decomposed plant and animal matter, compost adds essential nutrients, improves soil structure, and enhances microbial activity.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? Some traditional farming and agricultural methods, to date, use other methods of fertilising plants, especially farm manure and compost. They increase the depth of the roots and the water intake and volume.

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Manure Compost Straw Fertilizer 98

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. Yeast feeds on sugars, for example, to produce alcohol, while certain mold strains churn out penicillin and other antibiotics. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions. “I have one customer in the world.”

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Stuff yarrow into a deer bladder to create a tea that youll spritz on your crops? Now, a new crop of producers are taking these same concepts and applying them to their businesses as a whole. Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I see myriad varieties of vegetable crops one after the other in planned succession–seedlings and vegetative and fruiting–and I can smell the musty earthiness of the compost pile in the center of the field plots.

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