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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field. Growers get discounted dumping fees for cleaning, separating, and bundling products, all of which streamline the recycling process.)

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Can Cover Cropping Heal Abused Soil? A Mad Farm Reflection

ATTRA

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. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Diversity of food crops and flowering annuals.

Crop 52
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Sustainability in a Shell: How Snail Farms are Providing a Low-Impact Protein Alternative

Agritecture Blog

Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2 hectares of land upon which Mattia has created 38 pens, each 120m2 in size. So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”

Farming 52
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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. This title receives some updates in the 118th Congress: The Processing Resilience Grant program provisions are updated to align with the Strengthening Local Processing Act.