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Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Cropaia

Sandy loams tend to produce smooth, well-shaped tubers, while clay-heavy soils increase the likelihood of misshapen tubers due to mechanical resistance. Temperature and maturity: Sandy loam soils tend to warm up quickly in spring, allowing for earlier planting and faster crop establishment.

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From Seed to Grain: How to Grow Wheat for Optimal Yields

Cropaia

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. CROP ROTATION Practice crop rotation to break pest and disease cycles, improve soil fertility, and maintain long-term wheat productivity.

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Understanding pH Part Three: Salt of the Earth: Addressing Alkalinity

UnderstandingAg

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Introducing fallow periods into a cropping rotation also speeds up water table rise in these environments. Its much more complex than that.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

Civil Eats

The early settlers had been promised soil so rich theyd be able to throw seed on the ground and crops would grow, but the soil, weather, and climate were much different and less forgiving than what they expected. Wheat is still the main crop in the area, and sorghum is also still produced today.

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