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. Our goal with crop rotation is to plant things in a way that we don’t have to spray and that they still stay healthy.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops. With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

The summer crops have just about given their all, their leaves brown with wilt or downy mildew, an element of a plant’s natural senescence. The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. I, too, am subject to natural senescence. But a mechanical tiller?

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

This line of questioning led him to understand the importance of soil health for crop growth. He visited with some farmers who were using cover crops and saw how healthy their soil was. Why were the plant tissues testing low in potassium when there was plenty in the soil?

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. In addition, leaving crop residues on the field contributes to the accumulation of organic matter, which helps binding soil particles together, forming soil aggregates.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

With an abundance of open grassland, rich soil, and an extensive inland river system known as the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia is well-positioned for irrigated cropping and grazing. This would not only slash methane emissions but also reduce the land use impact of livestock by eliminating the need for extra grain production as feed.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, barley, oats, cotton) and plays an important role in predicting farm program expenditures in the President’s annual budget proposal. Crops, examines the performance of the existing area planted equations for seven major U.S. crops in the U.S. with AFBF’s Golden Plow award.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.” Here in the U.S.,

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Now, a new crop of seaweed startups, many funded by venture capital and tech industry players, is pouring millions into projects using seaweed to mitigate climate change.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. But I think we should be much more vigilant about maintaining productivity” as more farmers start using cover crops.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack , cover crops are being asked to do something new and high-stakes: draw atmospheric carbon into the soil to help fight climate change.

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