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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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Can Linen Make a Comeback in North America?

Modern Farmer

These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. It’s treated, in most cases, with conventional fertilizers and pesticides, and is harvested, processed and made into cloth using huge machinery. Her research explores where flax can be incorporated most effectively into existing crop systems.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

He’s especially proud of the fact that because of his self-sustaining system that produces natural fertilizers for his crops, he hasn’t purchased a pound of nitrogen since 1982. All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.

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How Sustainable Farming Practices Protect Land and Profitability

Trimble Agriculture

” By removing financial, informational, and logistical barriers, implementing supportive policies, and increasing investment in research and infrastructure, we can empower farmers and ranchers to embrace sustainable agriculture. per acre in fertilizer costs alone in 2021. It also can save farmers thousands of dollars.

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ORFC 2025: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

The just-in-time logistics employed by supermarkets faced criticism, with broad agreement that transitioning to a more localised food system could be vital to ensuring access to healthy and sustainable food in an increasingly uncertain world.