Agric4profits

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Organic cabbage farming is a sustainable method that avoids synthetic chemicals, focusing on natural practices. It emphasizes the use of organic inputs, ensuring healthy crop growth while maintaining soil fertility and ecosystem balance. Organic cabbage farming relies on eco-friendly techniques like composting and crop rotation.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 10, 2025

Organic wheat farming focuses on cultivating wheat without synthetic chemicals. Farmers use organic fertilizers and crop rotation to maintain soil fertility and promote healthy plant growth. Organic wheat farming promotes biodiversity by integrating other crops and encouraging beneficial organisms.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Crop rotation is a farming practice that helps farmers grow healthier and more productive crops. It's like changing the food on your plate so that you stay

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. Unlike much of the United States, where farming slows or halts during winter due to cold temperatures and snow, Florida’s mild climate allows for year-round cultivation.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Organic cucumber farming focuses on growing cucumbers using natural methods, avoiding synthetic chemicals. Farmers rely on organic fertilizers, natural pest control, and sustainable practices to ensure a healthy crop while protecting the environment. Organic cucumber farming promotes biodiversity and soil health.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic Guinea Corn farming involves cultivating Guinea Corn without synthetic chemicals, relying on natural methods to maintain soil fertility and control pests. This sustainable approach supports healthier crops while preserving the environment for future generations.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic groundnut farming offers a sustainable way to cultivate groundnuts without synthetic chemicals, promoting healthy soil and ecosystems. Organic groundnut farming focuses on using natural methods to manage pests, weeds, and diseases. Organic groundnut farming focuses on using natural methods to manage pests, weeds, and diseases.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 11, 2025

Organic Turnip Farming focuses on cultivating turnips using sustainable methods, free from synthetic chemicals and pesticides. Organic Turnip Farming supports biodiversity by integrating crop rotation, cover crops, and organic fertilizers.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic Okra Farming is a sustainable method that focuses on growing okra without synthetic chemicals or fertilizers. Organic Okra Farming helps to preserve biodiversity by using eco-friendly farming methods that protect local ecosystems.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technology is transforming many traditional industries, and farming is no exception. Lets explore the landscape of modern farming and uncover the role data plays. Understanding Data-Driven Farming Farming today is more than just relying on instinct or what was done in the past. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 12, 2025

Organic beet farming is a sustainable agricultural practice that focuses on growing beets without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Organic beet farming uses crop rotation, composting, and natural pest control to maintain soil fertility.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Organic pepper farming focuses on cultivating peppers without synthetic chemicals or pesticides, ensuring healthier produce. Organic pepper farming encourages biodiversity by incorporating companion planting, crop rotation, and organic fertilizers. This sustainable approach benefits both the environment and consumers.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic Mango Farming focuses on growing mangoes without synthetic chemicals or harmful pesticides. It emphasizes natural methods to maintain soil fertility and plant health, ensuring that mangoes are produced in a sustainable and eco-friendly way.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Organic plantain farming involves cultivating plantain without synthetic chemicals or fertilizers. It focuses on using natural practices to nurture the crop. Organic plantain farming requires careful soil management, pest control, and crop rotation.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

At Farm Credit of Southern Colorado, we take great pride in supporting the families who shape agriculture in our region. The Mattive family of Worley Family Farms has spent generations cultivating success in the San Luis Valley, and their story is one of resilience, dedication, and innovation.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic garlic farming involves cultivating garlic without synthetic chemicals, focusing on natural methods for soil fertility and pest control. This approach ensures healthier crops while preserving the environment. Organic garlic farming encourages biodiversity through crop rotation and intercropping.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic oil palm farming is a sustainable approach to cultivating oil palms without synthetic inputs. Organic oil palm farming focuses on enhancing soil health through compost, organic fertilizers, and crop rotation. This… Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Organic Oil Palm Farming

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo credit: Matt Ryan/Sandra Wayman Editor’s Note: This blog post is a guest post authored by Gordon Merrick, Senior Policy and Programs Manager at the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and Mark Schonbeck, Research Associate, also at OFRF, which is an NSAC member.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sustainable aviation fuels growth in camelina acres, creates crop rotation opportunity in fallow years.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Crop rotation is a common agronomic practice that involves the systematic sequencing of different crops in a specific field over several seasons. This technique aims to enhance soil fertility, control pests and diseases, and optimize crop yield.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. Implementing the following practices can increase the efficient use of nutrients in your farm or growing system. The best amount of nutrients will vary between crop species, soil, precipitation, and more.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 9, 2024

For growing high-yielding, quality peanuts with an unusual crop rotation, Shannon Nixon and his family are the 2024 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award winners from the lower Southeast.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 11, 2025

Organic Oats Farming offers a sustainable and eco-friendly approach to cultivating oats without synthetic chemicals. By focusing on natural inputs, it ensures healthier crops and soil, providing long-term benefits for both farmers and consumers.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic curry farming involves cultivating curry plants without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The focus is on maintaining soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and following sustainable farming practices.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! As the year comes to a close, we are reflecting on the progress we have made toward building a more resilient and equitable farm and food system.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a way to boost the soil quality in vineyards. Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As kavas allure grows, so, too, have local restrictions. In Florida, the so-called U.S.

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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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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

There's no doubt that modern technology has given us the tools to make our farming operations more efficient and productive. However, it can be hard to choose which practices to implement on your farm. Luckily, we’ve done the research and broken down the top tips for increasing efficiency and productivity on your farm.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wanted to name this “Ignoring the (Crop Rotation) Experts,” but that title is way too loaded these days! However, in terms of crop rotation, I increasingly find the rigidity of ideas on how to do it chafing. Crop rotation is one of the funny areas in gardening full of super rigid ideas and proscriptions.

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Organic Farming Research

JULY 17, 2024

His latest OREI-funded research evaluates crop rotations and coop designs for integrating poultry with organic vegetable production. The post Organic Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Ajay Nair appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation. Ajay Nair, Chair of the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State University.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

On a drizzly November day, Masra Clamoungou, the farm manager for Small Axe Farm, was getting ready for winter. Small Axe is part of a patchwork of farms east of Seattle, between the pine-filled Cascade foothills and the maple-lined banks of the Sammamish River.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Measuring a farm’s carbon footprint is not as simple as saying, “Cover crops were used, so that grain’s sustainably grown.” Different agricultural practices emit or sequester different amounts of carbon, so multiple farming practices must be considered when determining a farm’s environmental impact.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Photo credit: Lindsey Scalera This week, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) published a directory of crop insurance agents that specialize in selling Whole-Farm Revenue Protection. To be included in the list, crop insurance agents self-identified themselves as willing WFRP and Micro Farm agents.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

APRIL 28, 2024

Red Hen Turf Farm is one way! I had the opportunity to ride along with Max Niespodziany, Senior Financial Officer with Farm Credit Mid-America, as he delivered a patronage check to Red Hen Turf Farm. It was my first time on a turf farm! Red Hen Turf Farm Max and I met up with Gordon Millar, the owner of Red Hen Turf Farm.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Come February, we have this very short farm list. They source sunflower and canola oil from Pennsylvania farms. Toward the end of winter, it gets a little. agriculture.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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