Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To cultivate robust crops, understanding the soil's condition is vital, which is where soil testing comes in. Turning : Regularly turn the compost pile to ensure nutrients are evenly distributed and broken down. Healthy Crops Start with Your Soil The foundation of healthy crops begins with healthy soil.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But first, the soil will need to be brought back to life, having been worn out by decades of tobacco cultivation followed by commodity corn and soybean crops. They’ll diversify the farm’s income streams and deposit their nutrient-dense manure across the landscape while pecking at the dirt, stimulating microbes with their beaks.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Their brewery in Wales became the first carbon-neutral, nonalcoholic brewery in the world earlier this year.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 4, 2024

Her Belgian start-up cultivates mycelium—the thread-like root structure of fungus—using the plastic- and toxin-laden stubs as fodder. And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. A long list of other states, meanwhile, have banned the word “meat” from cultivated meat packaging. Take your fake meat elsewhere — we’re not doing that in the state of Florida!”

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence. Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. One of the core functions of the USDA, upon its foundation in 1862, was the collection and public distribution of germplasm , or seeds.

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