Agwired

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment found that replacing 40 pounds of synthetic nitrogen with Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 can increase corn yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Other results from the studies indicated higher corn yields.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 15, 2024

New developments in testing are expected to provide soybean growers with valuable information to fend off yield-robbing root rot caused by the water mould known as Phytophthora sojae.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 15, 2023

There’s a possible yield benefit for peas following wheat in a crop rotation rather than canola, according to research done through the University of Manitoba. Read More

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. High-salinity soils can negatively affect tuber quality and yield, making salt-sensitive varieties particularly vulnerable. Soil type and texture have a significant impact on potato harvest quality and yield.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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ATTRA

APRIL 7, 2024

The four-year study published in Science collected data from 24 research projects on more than 20 different types of diversification practices, including crop rotation, hedgerows, biochar application, mulching, livestock diversification, and water conservation.

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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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Agwired

MAY 21, 2024

Syngenta’s Tyler Harp at 2024 Commodity Classic With ear rots becoming more common and stealing more corn yield, Syngenta has some recommendations for managing mycotoxins and maximizing silage return on investment. million bushels and 49.4 million bushels, respectively. “We

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ATTRA

AUGUST 25, 2023

In 2022, the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provided an average of $34 per acre to farmers who transitioned to on-farm conservation practices that yield outcomes like carbon sequestration and water quality improvements.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Implement a Crop Rotation Plan Crop rotation is the process of growing different crops in a sequential, multi-year cycle. It's important to rotate crops because it helps prevent disease and pests from developing on your land. Consider incorporating legumes into your crop rotation plan.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Cash Rents and Expected Revenue Figure 1 shows cash rental expense as a percentage of budgeted crop revenue. The underlying data are derived from the Purdue University budget estimates and assume a 50:50 crop rotation on high-quality Indiana farmland. Expectations about revenue – commodity prices and yields – are also important.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Rotate your crops. Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health?

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, researchers utilize the long-term farming systems trials at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service station in Beltsville, MD , to address nutrients, weeds, soil health, greenhouse gas mitigation, and net economic returns in organic field crop rotations. Maintaining yields and managing production costs.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increasing crop yields while improving soil and watershed health requires understanding how agriculture management interacts with local environmental conditions. To date, this research remains fragmented and limited in scope.

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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. SARE Outreach, 2015.

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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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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. The investment of time is not without risk. There [are] some infrastructure issues.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia. Farmer B tills 50% of their fields, uses cover crops on 40%, and uses stable nitrogen sources. Consider this scenario.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 6, 2024

Herbicides are essential tools in modern agriculture, helping farmers manage weed infestations and maximize crop yields. Plant Resistant Varieties When using herbicides like glyphosate in post-emergent applications, ensure that the crop is genetically modified to withstand the herbicide.

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AGRIVI

JUNE 21, 2023

The platform compiles data on key performance indicators, including yield analysis, crop analysis, field analysis, farm finance KPIs, input usage and harvest report, water usage, and pesticide application. Improved yields for farmers by 11%. A 21% decrease in pesticide usage. Optimization of water consumption by 15%.

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Farmbrite

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As a farmer, you know that climate change can greatly affect your crops and their yield. This includes recording weather patterns, soil conditions, irrigation practices, crop yields, and any other relevant metrics. Keep track of key indicators such as growth rate, disease incidence, maturation time, and crop yield.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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Cropaia

JULY 30, 2023

Optimizing plant nutrition is a fundamental aspect of successful crop production. Nutrient deficiencies can significantly impact crop health and productivity, leading to reduced yields and compromised plant defenses against diseases and pests. What are the common symptoms of nutrient deficiencies in crops?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As we venture further into the pool, farmers may achieve increased biodiversity and water quality by incorporating more complicated strategies and Indigenous approaches like diversified crop rotations and agroforestry. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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Cropaia

APRIL 29, 2023

However, resistance to pesticides is a significant problem in agriculture, resulting in lower crop yields and increased pesticide use, which can have negative environmental and health impacts. Pesticide rotation is a management strategy that aims to reduce the risk of pesticide resistance.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

You will just keep experiencing the same symptoms – surface crusting, ruts, wet spots, stunted growth, lost yield, and many others – until you address the underlying cause of the problem, which is poor aggregate formation and the lack of living roots. Diversifying the crop rotation creates additional opportunities to maximize ground cover.

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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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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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Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

When striving to grow lush, healthy plants that produce favourable yields, soil nutrient quality must be high. This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields. In agriculture, growers must work with quality earth that contains healthy levels of soil nutrients.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

The planting window for these crops is broad here in the upper mid-Atlantic, and I can get a decent cover of perhaps three inches of resilient green leaves prior to the deep winter freeze. What’s more, it comes on strong in the early spring yielding loads of plant biomass and unparalleled nutrition for summer crops.

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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.

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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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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

For example, the benefits of no-till or conservation tilling have been known for decades, and cover crops are a common method of improving soil health, increasing organic matter, and reducing erosion and nutrient loss. The USDA cover crop chart can also help producers choose which cover crops to plant.

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