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Food as Filler OR Food as Medicine?

UnderstandingAg

farm output nearly tripled, while global grain production has more than quadrupled since 1950 and has doubled since 1975. No doubt that global grain production is significantly higher, but at what cost? An acre may provide foraging for cattle, sheep, pigs, laying hens, broilers and turkeys. From 1950 to 2000, U.S.

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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.

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Correcting the Record: The IRA Made More Money Available for All Conservation Work

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations.

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Armoring Your Soil for the Winter

UnderstandingAg

You can seed them earlier than July if intentionally resting a block for the entire, using them for a fall mulch or for forage (stock grazing). For example, a simple seed mix may include Sudan grass, cow pea, buckwheat, cereal rye, vetch, and forage pea. However, cold hardy cereal grains (i.e.,

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Molybdenum Matters: How to Enhance Crop Performance

Cropaia

Crop rotation and legume intercropping: Incorporating leguminous crops into rotation systems can enhance soil fertility and molybdenum availability through nitrogen fixation. Soybeans) Yellowing of leaf margins: The older leaves often show a characteristic yellowing at the margins, progressing towards the center.

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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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