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Best Practices for Managing Plant Nutrients

Farmbrite

Adding the right amount of fertilizer is an essential practice for nutrient management based on your farm's goals and soil conditions. Soil tests analyze nutrient levels, pH, organic matter, and other key factors, offering valuable insights into the soil's capacity to support the crops you're attempting to grow.

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

Farmbrite

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Modern farmers use technology and data analysis to make better choices about their day-to-day operations. Farmers are more and more using technology to bridge the gap between traditional agricultural practices and modern innovation.

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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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Food as Filler OR Food as Medicine?

UnderstandingAg

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), and various production technologies. From 1950 to 2000, U.S. and many places around the world.

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Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

Civil Eats

Technology changes. Funding] should focus more on paying farmers to switch to more drought-tolerant crops, to incorporate conservation crop rotations and to adopt other conservation practices that make their operations more resilient to climate change.” The jury’s still out,” he says. They get worn out.

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Data-Driven Agriculture: How Ag Retailers Can Thrive in 2025 and Beyond

DTN

The Changing Face of Agriculture The agricultural sector is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, aging farmers and demand for regenerative practices. Planting dates, irrigation schedules, crop protection measures and more are all driven by weather.

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Understanding pH Part One:

UnderstandingAg

Innovative technology and experimentation are challenging this simplistic model of nutrient availability, meaning nutrient availability charts, like the one presented below, are likely overly simplistic. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Urea 46-0-0 1.8