DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

Investing in new market opportunities for grains — like the sustainable grain market — is no different. Grain growers won’t change their planting or crop protection practices without knowing how the switch will affect their profitability and long-term goals. What makes grain sustainable? Why grow sustainable grain?

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. Additionally, durum wheat, known for its high protein content and suitability for pasta production, finds its niche in arid regions where its drought tolerance allows for successful cultivation.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Banners are hung, grain samples are on display, and a voice over a megaphone invites the crowd’s attention. Pearl millet is a small, round grain that feeds vast swaths of sub-Saharan Africa. Explains FUMA Gaskiya’s director, Ali Aminou, “As soon as you start talking about urine as a fertilizer, people run away.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 3, 2024

Singer’s respect for soil inspired her to found Carbon Sponge , an interdisciplinary platform that honors this threatened resource by cultivating healthy soil to foster carbon sequestration. It also improves soil’s fertility, its structure for conveying nutrients and capacity to retain water.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

In farming, input costs typically include items like seeds, fertilizer, feed, and more. For example, grain operators may find post-harvest as the most accurate time, while cow-calf operations may choose when calves are born. Updating will be much faster than starting from scratch.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As he transitions toward a farm that is more resilient, he has adopted a no-till system and a much more well-rounded rotation that includes small grains. The grains help reduce his risk during drier periods, and maintain his soil during wet periods. Further, they have added nearly five acres of prairie strips. We appreciate your work!

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The same applies for CO2 in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse gas effect, however carbon sequestered in the soil from the atmosphere via photosynthesis has many co-benefits to build soil fertility and soil structure so that the soil can retain more water.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In Iowa, unconventional farming—growing crops aside from industrial grain—ranges from soybeans grown and made into tofu near Iowa City to an environmentally-minded O’Brien County farmer who went organic decades ago. We know it can be done—farms that have diversified (crops), soil has improved, less fossil fuel used, less fertilizer used.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 15, 2021

She grew up in a farming community where her family produced different basic grains. The majority of the women [we work with] are the ones in charge of weeding, fertilizing, and preventive spraying of their gardens since their husbands go to work far from home very early in the morning. I am very happy.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This technique aims to enhance soil fertility, control pests and diseases, and optimize crop yield. Deep-rooted crops, such as certain grains or brassicas, can help retrieve nutrients from deeper soil layers, making them available for subsequent crops.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2024

Some of the different practices we use include: diverse crop rotation, cover crops, intercropping, low chemical use, biological fertilizer and seed treatment, soil amendments, and livestock incorporation. The post Young Farmers Cultivating Change appeared first on Modern Farmer. Why farming? What drew you to it as a livelihood?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The delays in payment could be devastating. To note: Hemp contains only.3

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City by Yuki Kato (Forthcoming May 2025) Drawing from conversations with New Orleans residents, Yuki Kato examines the surge of urban gardening in the city during the decade after Hurricane Katrina.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pre-cultivation, the region owed the healthy pH of its soils to the lucky coincidence of sitting atop a volcanic bed. However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beans have been cultivated across the globe for thousands of years and continue to form an essential part of healthy diets and agricultural incomes in many regions of the world. Additionally, grains are greatly favoured over pulses in the UK in terms of the land and research dedicated to their growth.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) , United States By cultivating a network of producers across the state of Iowa, PFI is working to build resilient farms and communities.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. In 2014, the amount of land devoted to tobacco cultivation, as a portion of all U.S. The tobacco side of the farm has grown from 50 acres to 150, and the farm also produces soybeans and grain crops on another 850 acres. agricultural land, was 0.04

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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The Equation

MARCH 6, 2025

Tariffs are usually implemented to promote domestic production and consumption by making imported goods prohibitively expensive, but when it comes to imported fruits and vegetables, there are no domestic alternatives to certain products that cannot be cultivated here because of unfavorable weather, soil, and growing conditions.

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The Equation

MARCH 6, 2025

Tariffs are usually implemented to promote domestic production and consumption by making imported goods prohibitively expensive, but when it comes to imported fruits and vegetables, there are no domestic alternatives to certain products that cannot be cultivated here because of unfavorable weather, soil, and growing conditions.

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