ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. It is beneficial to rotate between a nitrogen-fixing legume crop (like beans or peas) and a heavy nitrogen-feeding crop (like leafy greens or tomatoes). ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Michigan relies on the FDA to provide new information on GRAS products, said a spokesperson for the states Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), which issued the designation. Its about cultivating more farmersand more [informed] consumers, he said, to ensure that this ancient crop once again thrives.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Related ATTRA Resources Topic Area: Cover Crops Practical resources to help farmers choose the best cover crop system by function, planting methods, and termination options through publications, podcasts, and videos. Other Resources Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations. By Andy Clark. SARE Outreach, 2015.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

However, if diversity is low and you have bare spots, weeds, and low productivity (especially during late summer when cool- season pastures slow down), summer cover crops could be just the thing to jump start the soil biology and improve production. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These practices include managed or adaptive grazing, silvopastures, forest farming, field borders and buffers, hedgerows, riparian area development or expansion, cover crops, and crop rotation. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. A handful of bloodmeal may do no more than give me the warm-and-fuzzies, but I still do it). ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Improvements in soil health, more thoughtful crop rotations and learning from traditional ecological knowledge can also go a long way in conserving the U.S.’ United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP.

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