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Can Cover Cropping Heal Abused Soil? A Mad Farm Reflection

ATTRA

year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. For this, we need the courage and imagination to live within our limits, just like ecology has been trying to teach us.

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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.