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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

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For them, a temporary break from cropping might be a good option. In the UK, it is common practice to introduce leys into the cropping rotation. This simply means turning cropland into temporary pastureland for roughly 2-5 years and back to cropping. They now have pastures that triple that production.

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Pasture Cropping: Planting Summer Cover Crops in Cool-Season Perennial Pastures

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The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. Annual cover crops add carbon to the soil to improve soil aggregation and conserve water, and graziers can add cover crops, and graze them, to get the same benefits. This might give you a window for planting cover crops.

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Top Tips To Improve Farm Efficiency and Production

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Consider various factors such as the size of your land, the type of livestock you have, the quality of pasture, the seasonality, and your goals for land management. Determine the carrying capacity of your pastures, which is the maximum stocking rate your land can support without causing degradation. And adapt as needed.

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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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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

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Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires. That results in fairer prices, higher profits, and greater ina land stewardship practices like agroforestry and crop rotation that nurture both the land and local food system. Trask echoes the sentiment.

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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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Understanding pH Part One:

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This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition. As it stands, nearly 40 million acres of cropland and pasture in the western United States is negatively affected by buildup of these nutrients, and that number is growing annually.