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From Seed to Grain: How to Grow Wheat for Optimal Yields

Cropaia

Wheat is one of the world’s most essential staple crops, providing essential carbohydrates and nutrients for a significant portion of the global population. To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season.

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Op-Ed | Diving into the Deep End of Regenerative Agriculture

Food Tank

Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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Integrated Pest Management

Cropaia

Cultural practices that can be used in an IPM program include crop rotation, selecting pest-resistant varieties, proper irrigation and fertilization, and maintaining proper soil pH. In this practice, certain crops are planted together to deter pests or improve growth.

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‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

Sustainable Food Trust

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2

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Pesticide Rotation: A Must for Effective Pest Management

Cropaia

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.