Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. While market uncertainty persists, projected prices decline further for crops harvested in 2024, and net farm income falls to the lowest level since 2020. Register for AgCon2024.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. 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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Dialing up Diversity One standard approach to cleaning the water that runs off farms is planting cover crops.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands. In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils.

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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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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Stockpile is pasture that is left to grow during the growing season for grazing at a later date, often after the spring flush and can be perennial pasture or intentionally planted diverse cover crops. IF there was good yielding, high brix forage underneath the snow, the cows plow through it without regard for snow depth.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm. The annual crops and drainage tile started to create this leaky system.” Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. I don’t blame them.”

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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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

“As you’re structuring your cropping and the livestock rotations, you’re having to actively adapt, sometimes daily, to deal with the weather conditions.” million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Radiating from their geographical and spiritual epicenter in Iowa, these two crops cover nearly two-thirds of U.S. These crops are the raw materials the food industry transforms into the dizzying array of products that fill hundreds of millions of bellies every day. Why all the love for just two crops? Californias.

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