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Save our coffee!!!

Agricultural Biodiversity

Coffee prices have hit a 50-year high due to a combination of rising costs of production, supply chain disruptions, and climate changerelated declines in crop yields. Anyway, here’s the text. They also helpfully link to three recent article in the NY Times , The Independent and on ABC News.

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Practical Methods and Equipment Used In Tree Crop Production

Agric4profits

Tree crop production is a vital segment of agriculture, focusing on the cultivation of perennial plants such as fruit trees, nuts, and timber species. These crops yield sustainable outputs over extended periods, which makes them essential for economic stability, environmental sustainability, and food security.

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Weeds Acquiring Herbicide Resistance from Crop Rice, Study Shows

ATTRA

Louis sampled weedy rice, a relative of cultivated rice, from fields in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Rice growers began planting cultivars that were engineered to be herbicide-resistant, to help them manage the problem of weedy rice in their fields depressing crop yields.

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AGRIVI Releases New Fertigation Management Module that Remodels Crop Yield and Sustainability

AGRIVI

AGRIVI presents a new Fertigation Management Module , primarily intended for berries and vegetable cultivation in greenhouses in the substrate, that redefines how we nurture our crops. The post AGRIVI Releases New Fertigation Management Module that Remodels Crop Yield and Sustainability appeared first on AGRIVI.

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Precision Ag News 1/30

Agwired

Americas Cultivation Corridor released the results from a new survey commissioned to identify perceptions of Iowas food and agriculture industry. The expansive collaboration includes the launch of a new video podcast along with industry-leading content that will be distributed across Farm Journals omni-channel platforms.

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The Case for Tractor Farming

ATTRA

Increase Productivity One major reason to adopt tractor farming is that it makes it possible to cultivate larger areas in less time, with less hired help, and less backbreaking work. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Proper tilling and cultivation help with pest management.

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Organics, Carbon Farming, and Cultivating Soil (and Values!)

Hartwood Farm

When we build soil or trap carbon as small farmers, a lot of these costs are almost considered worthless in economic terms (except for their crop yield increases). More rocking cover crops—in 2014, this field only grew rye that reached my knee. In 2019, it was over my head while I was sitting on the tractor!