ATTRA
APRIL 23, 2024
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.
Farmbrite
MARCH 28, 2024
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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
OCTOBER 6, 2023
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.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
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.
UnderstandingAg
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
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.
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.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
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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