Western FarmPress

APRIL 3, 2025

Double-cropping soybeans can be profitable but may deplete soil potassium. Farmers must calculate nutrient removal from wheat, straw and beans to maintain fertility levels.

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ATTRA

MARCH 1, 2025

They developed a mapping framework that shows the acreage, locations, and management practices (such as winter flooding and post-harvest rice straw) that would most benefit each wildlife group.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. The best amount of nutrients will vary between crop species, soil, precipitation, and more. Healthy Crops Start with Your Soil The foundation of healthy crops begins with healthy soil.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 13, 2023

Northeast Roundup: Help update the Maryland hay and straw directory; Vermont crops field day set.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

The arable land is farmed in a multi-year rotation including fodder crops such as lucerne, grains and vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, beetroot and parsnips. In summer, the 62 cows within the herd give birth on pasture, in winter they are moved to a spacious calving box with deep straw bedding in the barn.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Baker has even had success planting directly into straw bales. Straw bales get bonus points because they can be composted after the growing season for future use as a natural fertilizer.” Instead of using plastic weed barriers or synthetic mulch use compostable materials such as straw, grass clippings, wood chips, newspaper, or leaves.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Understanding when and how much nitrogen becomes available after applying organic fertilizers is essential for effective nutrient management and maximizing crop yield. Because ammonium is immediately plant-available, crops can access this nitrogen almost right away. Other organic amendments (e.g., High C:N ratio materials (e.g.,

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Agric4profits

JUNE 30, 2024

Oat stalks, also known as oat straw, are the fibrous stems of the oat plant that remain after the grain has been harvested. These stalks play a significant role

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. Other parts of the crop are used for rope, paper, mulch, and animal bedding. Growers hope other states will follow with that designation.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

There is an array of evidence that MPs impact soil structure, moisture diffusion, microbial activities, crop development, seed germination, nutrient availability, and ultimately threaten the soil ecology and the wider environmental ecosystem due to their persistence and toxicity. And they function as a natural mulch when they finish.

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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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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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Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Rice lemma, also known as rice straw or rice chaff, is the stalk or stem of the rice plant (Oryza sativa) that remains after the grains of rice have been harves

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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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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

But when it comes to dog manure, the process is frequently shunned over fears of pathogens—despite the widespread practice of fertilizing crops with “biosolid compost”—sewage sludge— which has been found to contain toxic PFAS chemicals and many other hazards. “That is perhaps why most cities prohibit it.”

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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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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Much of the wool was saturated with organic matter such as manure, straw and leaves. Through the University of Vermont, Hagen began testing the added value of wool pellets to crop soil. As she undertook the cumbersome process of cleaning the wool, Maksymiuk realized she would end up with a lot of unusable material.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. Yeast feeds on sugars, for example, to produce alcohol, while certain mold strains churn out penicillin and other antibiotics. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Cover crops and green manures : Growing cover crops such as legumes, clover, or rye can improve sandy soils. When these crops are turned into the soil, they act as green manure, adding organic matter and nutrients. Cover crops also help in reducing erosion, maintaining soil moisture, and suppressing weeds.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The Burgers are among a modest cohort of small-time growers who almost exclusively cultivate cool-weather and storage crops that they sell in the wintertime. Those crops, which are staples of farmers’ markets throughout the summer, are also profitable for farmers. We can be a little calmer about our season,” Burger says.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

David narrowed his eyes beneath his wide-brimmed straw hat and scanned the plain of yellow esparto waving in the hot wind. They shear in April and do it themselves to avoid having to pay the Eastern European shearing gangs to remove what should be a valuable crop but has become another cost in an already struggling industry.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

The claim is controversial, however, in terms of biodegradability and because plant-based plastics require crops such as corn and farmland that could have been used to grow food. 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? Now, a new crop of producers are taking these same concepts and applying them to their businesses as a whole. Straw and manure for our compost comes from local farms in our neighborhood, which we mix with remains from grapes after theyve been pressed.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

I am only considering them in relation to agricultural crops. This reached its most extreme level in the 1970s, when tens of thousands of acres of straw were burned in the fields every summer in the UK, sometimes setting fire to hedgerows as well. He took a broad look at mycorrhizae within the plant kingdom.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2023

Called the Nigiri Project for its fish-on-rice concept, it’s a collaboration between researchers and farmers that floods rice fields in the winter, helping to break down rice straw while offering juvenile salmon and waterfowl conditions that mimic the bug-rich floodplain ecosystems to which they’re adapted.

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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 sea’s microbes are also likely contributing more to poor air quality than previously understood. What Will it Take to Spur Change?

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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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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I see myriad varieties of vegetable crops one after the other in planned succession–seedlings and vegetative and fruiting–and I can smell the musty earthiness of the compost pile in the center of the field plots.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Severe droughts are one of the factors that have destabilized the global crop market in recent years, translating to higher U.S. Warming has led to reduced agricultural productivity and diminished crop yields , while major disasters throttle the supply chain. grocery store prices.

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