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Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking

ATTRA

Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. It is beneficial to rotate between a nitrogen-fixing legume crop (like beans or peas) and a heavy nitrogen-feeding crop (like leafy greens or tomatoes).

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Cash Rent’s Share of Expected Revenue

Agricultural Economics Insights

Cash Rents and Expected Revenue Figure 1 shows cash rental expense as a percentage of budgeted crop revenue. The underlying data are derived from the Purdue University budget estimates and assume a 50:50 crop rotation on high-quality Indiana farmland. High-Quality Indiana Farmland. 50:50 Corn/ Soybean Rotation.

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Moving into the Agrihood

Modern Farmer

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the rich sea grasses and several colonies of bees hurry about their business. Tiny Timbers is a small agrihood in St.

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Seattle’s Black Farmers Collective Nurtures Communities and Crops

Modern Farmer

While the cover crops prepped the land, Clamoungou and his crew prepped themselves, along with the equipment, infrastructure and seedlings they’d need for a successful growing season. In 2020, Williams learned that King County was looking to lease and reactivate fallow farmland in the Sammamish River Valley. percent Black.

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Ride Along with Farm Credit Mid-America’s Patronage Program at Red Hen Turf Farm

The Farmers Daughter USA

It’s actually not all that different from any other crop, except it takes about 18 months for it to mature for harvest. But soil quality, pest control, crop rotation, and fertilizers are all used to produce quality sod. Gordon said it’s great for marginal farmland (or, land that doesn’t produce well).

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Op-Ed | Flour Power: The Strength and Sustainability of Sorghum

Food Tank

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Factsheets Discuss Soil Health Economics

ATTRA

American Farmland Trust’s Water Initiative has released a three-factsheet series on A Farmer’s Guide to Soil Health Economics. The two-page guides are focused on corn, soybean, and small-grain production systems.