Crop Rotation Ecology Pasture 
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
OCTOBER 6, 2023
CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.
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UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.
Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. His mother’s family were dairy farmers, and the land had consisted of pasture and row crop fields. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JANUARY 26, 2024
Farmers are some of the best-placed people to help protect the ecosystem services found in healthy ecologies,” said Jared Phillips of Branch Mountain Farm who spoke on the panel alongside his wife Lindi Phillips. They used EQIP to expand livestock watering and fencing infrastructure to enable rotational grazing.
Sustainable Food Trust
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2 xliii] Improved pastures managed using agroecological practices contain up to 41% more plant species than conventionally managed pastures, a level of species richness comparable with some semi-natural grasslands.
Sustainable Food Trust
JANUARY 14, 2025
Holly Purdys Exmoor farm exemplifies the concept of better meat, with her pasture-fed beef and sheep, and more plants, through the introduction of a market garden and silvopasture incorporating fruit trees.
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