Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Subsistence farmers primarily cultivate staple crops such as maize, rice, and beans, along with vegetables and livestock, to support their households.

Maize 105

Maize Cultivation Livestock Crop 105

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation.

Seeding 140

Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

Seeding 144

Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation.

Seeding 83

Seeding Crop Farming Farming 83

Farmers Weekly

JULY 22, 2023

Farmers Weekly A revamped version of Maschio Gaspardo’s high-speed precision drill allows owners to quickly alter row spacings to suit a range of different crops. This means row […] The post Variable row spacing option for Maschio’s Chrono precision drill appeared first on Farmers Weekly

Crop 246

Crop Maize Cultivation 246

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 19, 2024

Indigenous people in the southwest of North America had more of a hand in crop domestication than is often thought, according to a new paper on the Four Corners potato, Solanum jamesii. That would be cultivation. So did people transport and grow the tubers simply to have a nourishing source of food close at hand in winter?

Maize 113

Maize Cultivation Crop Marketing 113

Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 11, 2023

Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Diamonds in the Not-So-Rough: Wild Relative Diversity Hidden in Crop Genomes. The cool alleles you spotted in wild relatives may already be in cultivated genomes, and that can save breeders some time and effort. Ok, maybe 8.

Ecology 100

Ecology Maize Cultivation Grain 100

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families. The reallocation of collective farms meant that thousands of families were given land to cultivate themselves.

Seeding 124

Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Kayan, whose business relies on the organic vegetables he grows for his farmstand and CSA, said hed be happy to use urine on other crops if the practice was more widely accepted by consumers. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots.

Fertilizer 80

Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 80

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. Crop Trust , International Crop Trust is dedicated to conserving plant genetic resources to promote sustainable agriculture and support global food security.

Food 145

Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. This doesn’t mean that their stewards’ cacao or their manner of cultivation is any more ceremonial than it is among the places and people who don’t inherit the same ceremonies. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,

Harvesting 104

Harvesting Harvest Harvester Food 104

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

Maize 144

Maize Science Crop Food 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Her mothers days were filled with caring for children, hand-milling maize, and tending their small garden. Aracely Marroqun Coronado, 21 On the farm where Aracely grew up, near the town of Comitancillo in Guatemalas western highlands, the maize is so tall in July that it swallows her familys house whole.

Maize 67

Maize Distribution Farming Farming 67