Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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.” And it grows well in the arid West, where there is a lot of sunshine.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During this transition period, yields can drop and farmers can still be years away from a return. They have to use lots of cover crops, and they have to have a more intense crop rotation and they may use some tillage. Photo by Shutterstock) MF: Part of the initiative is to bolster organic markets.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

Investing in new market opportunities for grains — like the sustainable grain market — is no different. Grain growers won’t change their planting or crop protection practices without knowing how the switch will affect their profitability and long-term goals. What makes grain sustainable? Why grow sustainable grain?

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. It’s likely that within this centralized market, carbon emissions and sequestration will be part of the formula used to determine whether grain was sustainably grown.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

While there may be concerns about potential short-term yield reductions during this transition, these practices offer long-term benefits for soil health, environmental sustainability, and overall farm resilience. Yield reduction may be a result of a reduction in nutrient availability (e.g.,

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In some of our early-stage testing in Egypt, we’ve seen up to double the yields in those really difficult conditions.” Founded in 2018 through the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the company studied common crops and the difficulties with growing them in desert regions without huge amounts of energy and water resources.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

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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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 Bioscience announces positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (“HT”) traits in Camelina, which will help support grower adoption for the biofuel feedstock market by enabling weed control and increased access to acreage previously treated with Group 2 herbicides.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Rubba visits all the farms that supply the restaurant, asking about their crop rotations , soil health practices, and how the farmworkers are treated. “I Photo credits: Dana Honn) Chefs can be part of the next chapter of this story, not only by telling the history of a food but also by helping build a sustainable market for its future.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Using new MoAs and different methods of controlling the weeds such as manual weeding or crop rotations are crucial to addressing the challenge of resistant weeds and ensuring the sustainability of crop protection solutions.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. Plant a cover crop and, bingo, you’re a regenerative farmer. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets. By Andy Clark.

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AGRIVI

MAY 22, 2024

Stronger Motivation for Technology Adoption A decade of digitalization in agriculture has passed, while the adoption at medium-sized and small farms has fallen significantly to less than 5% in the majority of markets , making the digitalization of agriculture still early stage, but with a lot of potential.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cooperatives can take on many forms; like a marketing co-op, purchasing co-op, or a credit union. Marketing cooperatives help farmers sell their products more effectively by consolidating output and accessing broader markets. It takes into account international trade policies, prices, and market conditions.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 13, 2024

The first 20% effort should yield 80% of the project results. You might find implementing techniques such as crop rotation, integrated pest management, and water conservation can enhance productivity and profitability. Stay informed about new technologies, techniques, and market trends to adapt and innovate as necessary.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture differs from monoculture, which involves growing one crop at a time over an entire field. Plus, by implementing polyculture and planting several crops together at once, you can improve your soil quality over time and increase your yields. Polycultures can increase yields compared to monocultures.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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Todays Farmer Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When his father, Randy, equipped his combine with a yield monitor in the early 1990s, teenage Ryan thought it was a huge step forward for the family farm. Crop rotations and use of cover crops reduce erosion and improve soil health. Ryan returned home from the University of Missouri in 2000 with more than a degree.

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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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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Understanding your soil (loamy, clay, etc), the PH, and the other trace nutrients that are available in your soil is vital to growing healthy crops. Growth and Yield: Many types of grass are perennials and have regrowth ability. Combining different hay types, such as grass-legume mixes, can enhance forage quality and yield.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

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.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

I was surprised to see how many regenerative practices I would be paid for by acres, which I was already implementing, such as no-till, cover crops, crop rotation, and reducing the use of harmful chemicals, Francessca Petrie, Nicodemus farmer and the USDA-FSA land capital marketing access grant director, told me.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Through networking, education, and advocacy, the group hopes to help small millers get established and grow their share of the market. Wheat breeders focused on yield and ease of processing, pushing local varieties like White Sonora out of favor. By the early 1900s, industrial wheat mills prevailed. Of the more than 21.5

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