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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For instance, farmers in the Southern region face acidic, low-fertility soils, intense weed, pest, and disease pressures, along with marketing and infrastructure constraints. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

It uses natural methods to promote soil health, control pests, and maintain biodiversity while yielding high-quality fruits. Farmers avoid synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, instead using organic alternatives such as compost, cover crops, and… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Apples Farming

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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.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, we'll share the top 10 tips to boost your farm's efficiency, productivity, and yields – all with a dash of farm flair! Get to know your soil by testing it, and then bring in the heavy hitters compost and cover crops. Regularly amend your soil with organic matter, such as compost or cover crops, to improve fertility.

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Cropaia

JULY 30, 2023

Nutrient deficiencies can significantly impact crop health and productivity, leading to reduced yields and compromised plant defenses against diseases and pests. Nutrient deficiencies can result from various factors, such as poor soil nutrition, imbalanced fertilization, inadequate soil pH levels, or other environmental stresses.

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Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

Soil degradation mitigation Soil degradation is a major concern in agriculture, leading to reduced fertility and productivity. This microbial activity improves soil health and fertility, supporting a diverse ecosystem. This pH adjustment can lead to improved crop yields and soil health.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. When the loan money was delayed, he would have to fertilize and plant late, and the farm would operate under stress all year, often experiencing low yieldand reduced profitsas a result.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Six years later, Soil Cycle has gone from Lewis picking up scraps from a few clients to six bikers transporting upwards of 60,000 pounds of compost per year. With a bigger staff and a new executive director, they also educate the community, create quality natural fertilizers, and take compost to a new level, all while remaining human-powered.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

The approach allows them to lower their carbon footprints, earn extra revenue, and tap into methane digesters’ other benefits, which include the creation of organic fertilizers, also called “digestates,” for use on the farm. The fertilizer produced by the co-digester is stored in the tank behind it. and we see increased crop yields.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Chris Lent, NCAT Agriculture Specialist When I began to see how unique the growing conditions in my high tunnel are compared to open-field growing, I started to think differently about how to maintain soil health and manage soil fertility for high tunnel growing and season extension. These strategies start with soil testing.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some traditional farming and agricultural methods, to date, use other methods of fertilising plants, especially farm manure and compost. Compost is highly effective to make at home with generic waste materials, thus providing a more cost-effective and realistic way to enrich the soil.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

Like the hog tails, hides, organs, and hooves that aren’t always suitable for compost. Initially, they partnered with a composting facility, capturing suitable meat and vegetable scraps, which they now collect directly from a variety of sources. Their excrement, frass, is a rich fertilizer for agriculture.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Third, Hardin and other farmers are seeking new ways to increase their yields by improving soil health. To contend with these issues, the project composts the poultry litter and combines it with biochar made from forest and sawmill waste and poultry litter.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company composts all fruit scraps, tea, herbs, cultures, and paper towels while also saving over 1,100 gallons of water per day through their recapture system. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Boochcraft, United States Boochraft produces kombucha, an alcoholic fermented tea.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. They’re not exactly “yield-maximizing” practices on display. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else. However, when you divide a large number (i.e., The result?

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a basic diagram showing how carbon cycles through a corn field yielding around 200 bu/acre. It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. We typically add very little carbon to our fields unless we are adding a lot of manure or compost. In part 1, we reviewed the important role that carbon plays in the soil.

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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. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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Kavya Organic Farm

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ensure the soil is rich in organic matter by amending it with compost before planting. Fertilizing: Feed your Coral Drift Roses with a balanced, slow-release fertiliser in early spring, just as they begin to break dormancy. If needed, amend the soil with organic matter like well-rotted compost.

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Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Before I get into the actual usage tips, I would like to cover some basics on plants’ need for fertilizer. Then why do we need to add fertilizers? Plants compete for nutrients and natural replenishment are sparse, hence the need to add fertilizers to soil or spray over the plants so that the plants keep growing.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. Most modern wheat is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety that does not produce roots as deep as many heritage types. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.” in March 2022.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

It also improves soil’s fertility, its structure for conveying nutrients and capacity to retain water. Then also, ‘what can we learn from soil?’” Farming methods over the past 50 years, such as growing monocultures and fertilizing depleted soil to prop up the system, are shortsighted, says Singer.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

On the Mad Farm, this is enacted through compost and especially the cover crops that occupy space on the gardens each season. I rely on these crops, idealistically to bolster hope, and practically to provide most if not all the fertility my garden crops need to live fully and produce quality fruits. This year was weird.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Darker soils, better water infiltration, less fertilizer. I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets. Legume and grass covers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

The prevailing model involves taking care of the crop’s nutritional needs with chemicals, bumping up the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in an effort to maximize the yield of the crop. He steeps the compost like a tea, extracting the microorganisms in water, and then runs it through his irrigation system. agriculture.

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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. Regardless of the approach, implementing crop rotation is crucial for maintaining soil fertility, minimizing pest and disease issues, and ensuring sustainable agriculture practices. Don't over-fertilize.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Fittingly, then, my recent trip to South Africa yielded two fascinating additions in the energy and sewage department. This satisfied all my criteria for acceptable water-based sewage systems: leveraging the fertility, keeping it out of the ground water, and a portable distribution system. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 18, 2023

Mix compost, peat moss, and perlite to create a balanced and aerated growing medium that promotes root development and prevents waterlogged soil. Feeding and Fertilizing Your Tomato Plants To support their vigorous growth and fruit development, beefsteak tomatoes need proper nourishment.

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RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find. They now grow over 10 types of grass and clover, use less fertilizer, and produce some of the healthiest, most nutritious beef you can find.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community. Imagination leads to affection, and affection yields fidelity. I was searching for some way to help.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns. According to its website, the material decays in controlled composting conditions.

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Cropaia

APRIL 7, 2023

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields. Such techniques aim to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A review paper published last month by researchers working on the Rurban Revolution project surveyed previous studies and determined that on average, urban agricultural yields (including both outdoor and indoor growing operations) were on par or higher than those of typical farms. That requires human labor instead of a machine.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

The Problem Although not all fire fallout is toxic, the impacts on livestock and crops from wildfire ash containing contaminants from household products, vehicles, fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, plastics, electrical systems, etc. Designated Containment Areas Keep pesticides/fertilizers, etc.

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The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

They deposit their eggs, completing the cycle that will yield another generation of the silver fish that have been a cornerstone of the Pacific Northwest diet for generations. . — In the fall or early winter, coho salmon leave the open ocean and begin a long swim up freshwater streams to spawn.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

It would cover the cost of installing equipment and infrastructure for dry scraping manure or separating solids to produce compost for bedding, for application to fields as a substitute for chemical fertilizer, or for sale. Not only will this effort increase hardiness and yields for farmers, but it will also enable the U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), However, a recent review of 25 commercial mycorrhizal inoculants concluded that only one of the inoculants resulted in higher yields.

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