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How to Improve Long-Term Soil Health on Your Farm

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Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. By properly managing grazing intensity, pastureland can maintain healthy vegetation cover and provide adequate forage for livestock. Overgrazing can deplete the available forage, leading to inadequate nutrition for your animals.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

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. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. In 2016, Rhum J.M

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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Modern Farmer

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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What to Know About Wildfire and Food Safety

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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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