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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

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. For them, a temporary break from cropping might be a good option. In the UK, it is common practice to introduce leys into the cropping rotation.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP.

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Restoring a Cornerstone of the Local Grain Economy

Civil Eats

Not only can those plants provide delicious flour, she says; they can also be used as cover crops that develop healthy soils. “By By building a market for these small grains, we’re building in economic incentives to have more diversified and sustainable crop rotations,” says Smith. Of the more than 21.5

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