Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, crop rotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. What’s in It for Farmers?

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

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 even took us out to the field where we saw the harvester in action.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. CROP ROTATION Practice crop rotation to break pest and disease cycles, improve soil fertility, and maintain long-term wheat productivity.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Implement a Crop Rotation Plan Crop rotation is the process of growing different crops in a sequential, multi-year cycle. It's important to rotate crops because it helps prevent disease and pests from developing on your land. Consider incorporating legumes into your crop rotation plan.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Healthy soil is the foundation for healthy crops. Crop Rotation A crop mixtape if you will. Change it up with a crop rotation that's like a musical mixtape for your fields. Precision planting, watering and fertilization will make your crops dance to the rhythm of productivity.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia. Farmer B tills 50% of their fields, uses cover crops on 40%, and uses stable nitrogen sources. Consider this scenario.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. 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.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Lastly, ever increasing crop yields over the decades has meant more calcium (Ca 2+ ), magnesium (Mg 2+ ) and potassium (K + ) leaves the field at harvest, which has the same effect as them leaching in high rainfall areas because H + is allowed to reign, and the balance of positively charged nutrients is thrown out of whack.

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Agwired

MAY 21, 2024

“These diseases infiltrate the crop and diminish its overall integrity, limiting its potential for successful silage use post-harvest due to excess mycotoxin levels,” Tyler Harp, Ph.D., Most farmers rely on cultural practices such as hybrid selection and crop rotation to manage mycotoxins, but a fungicide can also be a solution.”

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I Even when grown in the U.S.,

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One crop takes over the entire field, and everything is tailored to its style, from irrigation to tools. Some farmers might throw in a twist with crop rotation, switching between different crops to keep things fresh while still keeping the species separate.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A small sheep herd that was on the property from when her parents farmed the land was integrated into organic crop rotation. He adds that the indigenous Ho-Chunk Nation was among the first to go into these forests to harvest maple sap. “We In 2014, she and Rafkin started transitioning to organic. They were a rough crew of sheep!”

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Moser plans to work with other crops, too. They were already used as a cover crop before alfalfa and hay were planted. Soybeans can also work into a crop rotation when forage crops need to be replanted every few years. The goal is to harvest the forage crops as efficiently as possible.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Adding a cover crop adds a new inflow, and it’s more likely that a portion of that carbon will stay in the soil if that cover crop is not harvested. Adding a perennial to the crop rotation can also drive a large increase in photosynthesis. The remaining growing days are lost opportunity if there is no living cover.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

You can also inter-seed winter species to a summer cash crop. When the summer crop is harvested and winter kills, the winter species remain. Traditional Winter Cover Cropping – These are the traditional winter cover crop species and are seeded in late summer to mid-fall (late August-late October) in most North American climates.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow. Alternatively, if you are using rotational grazing methods the plants your livestock consume today will regrow if given time by moving them to a different area to graze. The hay that you grow can be a sustainable source of feed for your livestock.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Illinois-based Saving Tomorrow’s Agricultural Resources (STAR) Program sets standards for regenerative practices such as crop rotation, tillage, and nutrient applications. Several Western and Midwestern states, however, have managed to promote conservation-minded practices through modest incentives.

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Fork Farms

JULY 17, 2023

With the Flex Farm , an indoor hydroponic farm, students can observe and document the entire life cycle of plants – from germination to harvesting – within a 30-day grow cycle. Students can investigate other integrated solutions such as: composting, crop rotation, and farm co-ops.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 13, 2024

You might find implementing techniques such as crop rotation, integrated pest management, and water conservation can enhance productivity and profitability. SOPs provide guidelines for carrying out tasks consistently and efficiently and how you want them to be done.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture differs from monoculture, which involves growing one crop at a time over an entire field. You will need to weed the beds regularly, harvest them as they ripen, and store them in such a way that they don't spoil or rot before you can use them.

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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields. According to the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture , soil testing should be done on all crop types anytime a nutrient deficiency is detected or at the start of crop rotation.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. Planting and Harvesting Potatoes are typically planted in spring once soil temperatures reach 10°C (50°F), a benchmark for promoting uniform sprouting and robust early growth. The effects of soil type on harvest include: 1.

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AGRIVI

JUNE 21, 2023

The platform compiles data on key performance indicators, including yield analysis, crop analysis, field analysis, farm finance KPIs, input usage and harvest report, water usage, and pesticide application.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2024

This idea, first proposed in the Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting Economic Resilience (WEATHER) Act , would be a complement to improving WFRP and NAP and help address the dramatic gap in access to the safety net.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Importantly, many farmers also argue that profitability can be significantly increased due to lowered reliance on expensive chemical inputs, thanks to techniques such as crop rotation, holistic grazing, and cover cropping that can add nutrients back to the soil. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

For example, the benefits of no-till or conservation tilling have been known for decades, and cover crops are a common method of improving soil health, increasing organic matter, and reducing erosion and nutrient loss. Gaesser Farms in Iowa harvests some of their cereal rye cover crop to sell the seed to other farms.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. But, as part of the nonprofit Black Farmers Collective, Small Axe is more than just a place for growing food.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.” Even the pollinator crops are covers providing multiple benefits. Eliot Coleman once said green manure and cover crops and crop rotations are public commons, so corporations can’t make money off them.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The practice was finally banned in the UK in 1993 after years of campaigning by environmental organisations, such as Friends of the Earth , but has been permitted again by Defra on blocks of up to ten hectares (25 acres), as part of attempts to control the persistent weeds that plague many of the farms which have continuous arable crop rotations.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2025

Terra Regenerative Capital finds farmers and businesses that want to implement regenerative agriculture practices, such as crop rotation and permaculture, that build healthy soils and ecosystems rather than breaking them down. The firm then works with farmers and food businesses to implement and monitor changes.

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