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Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Cropaia

Sandy loams tend to produce smooth, well-shaped tubers, while clay-heavy soils increase the likelihood of misshapen tubers due to mechanical resistance. Irregularly shaped tubers can reduce marketability, especially for varieties where visual appearance is critical.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

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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From Seed to Grain: How to Grow Wheat for Optimal Yields

Cropaia

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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‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

Sustainable Food Trust

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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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. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

Farmers’ self-sufficiency and resilience in the face of market shocks and extreme climate events will be essential components of the UK’s future food security, and the social stability, health and growth the Government seeks. xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Carbon offsetting schemes are already being used to market huge numbers of products and we believe that building soil carbon stocks is no different,” he explains. Some firms are already buying a broader range of crops from farmers to incentivize these changes, says Bande at Quantis. It’s the system that’s changing,” she says.