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What Is Multi-Peril Crop Insurance? (And other FAQs)

ProAg

A range of individual plans fall under MPCI, including: Act ual Production History (APH) : Protects against a loss of production by guaranteeing a yield based on the actual production history of a farmers crops. Yield Protection (YP): Like APH, YP protects against a loss of production.

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Is Soil Testing Worth It? 

Trimble Agriculture

If you’re an agricultural landowner, chances are you’ve used soil testing to customize fertilization, optimize soil health, and maximize crop yields. Increased Yields Soil testing combined with crop and fertilization management can increase yields significantly. Healthy soil can also produce healthier livestock. “If

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How to Cut Costs with Smart Farming Technology 

Trimble Agriculture

Smart farm technology like automated pickers is empowering farmers with improved labor management and higher yields. For mushroom farmers, they’ve seen a 10 percent yield improvement. The technology also allows crops to be picked at exactly the right time, which minimizes crop loss.

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Protecting Honeybees and Native Pollinators

Agriculture for Life

In crops such as cucurbits, their activity is crucial to the success of the crop. In other crops such as sweet corn or potato, bees are among many beneficial insects that seek out pollen or nectar resources as a food source, but crop yield does not depend upon their activity. Control weeds.

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Managing Dairy Slurry to Maximize Nutrient Capture

UnderstandingAg

Inherent Problems Even though we can see tremendous crop yields with high rates of slurry, this comes with some soil health issues, which may include soil surface crusting, collapsed soil aggregates, impaired water infiltration rates, mortality of soil invertebrates, and excessive soil phosphorus levels.

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Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run

Agritecture Blog

They will compare the blueberry yield among the plants fully shaded by panels, plants partially shaded by panels, and plants with full sun. We saw doubling of yield of tomatoes using 30% less water, and we saw tripling of yield for beans and peppers using half as much water.

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We One farmer noted to me recently that the potato crop is grown after a GLSA always has a substantial increase in yield for his fields,” says Schmalz.

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