Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Lessons From Mushers and Others Composting is the controlled breakdown of organic matter into humus, a rich soil amendment many prefer over chemical fertilizers. ” Yet a number of studies and pilot projects have helped pioneer the composting of dog waste— and unlike biosolids, it’s not being spread on food crops.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. The solution didn’t appear until some time later, when another member of the wool industry gave her an idea: Turn the wool into pellet fertilizer. Through the University of Vermont, Hagen began testing the added value of wool pellets to crop soil.

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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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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nitrogen helps with greenery, and potassium helps with plants’ stalks and straws Why fertilisers? They increase the depth of the roots and the water intake and volume. Phosphorus is responsible for this, and it also allows for better seed growth.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. More Acreage Protected With Cover Crops Cover crops are planted to protect the soil and provide nutrients, rather than planted for harvest. Since the 1997 high of 66.4

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Incorporate soil conditioners and fertilizers to supply essential nutrients. It adds organic matter, nutrients, and beneficial microorganisms that enhance soil fertility. Cover crops and green manures : Growing cover crops such as legumes, clover, or rye can improve sandy soils.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

Researchers have increasingly recognized how essential fungi are to sequestering carbon in the soil and some have come to appreciate the outsized role they play in supporting crop health, mitigating climate change, and even sheltering crops from disease. Rows of salad greens growing on Compostella Farm in Mississippi.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

Steve Ela is an organic fruit grower in western Colorado who relies on compost to nourish his heirloom tomato crop each year. It helps increase yields and the nutrient content of crops, reduce synthetic fertilizer use, and improve soil health and water retention, among other benefits.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Cotton growing at Viriditas Farm, where rotational crops like heirloom Sonora wheat bolster root material and straw to build soil organic matter with each crop year.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Stuff yarrow into a deer bladder to create a tea that youll spritz on your crops? It is, at its simplest level, a method of chemical-free organic farming that entails the observation of lunar phases, planetary cycles and requires the use of locally sourced materials for fertilization and soil conditioning. Um, okaaaay. You do you.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), He took a broad look at mycorrhizae within the plant kingdom.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. the Salton Sea is also suffering from eutrophication, or loss of oxygen, due largely to algae blooms fueled, in part, by fertilizer runoff.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases. You can also reduce your use of plastic by reusing items you already have.

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