Farmers Weekly
OCTOBER 11, 2023
We got the cover crops drilled, beans, spring oats and barley cut, potatoes topped and cultivation done in the Indian summer. It took more than a fortnight to bale the oat straw, […] The post Farmer Focus: Rain and series of breakdowns add to challenges appeared first on Farmers Weekly September was a tester at Brickyard Farm.
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. Oh, what a day, he says. I cant cut wheat until I get that fixed. He gives Patrick a thumbs up.
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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. A designer by training, Speyer stumbled on fungi while searching for a sustainable and easy-to-cultivate material. Fungi are nature’s recyclers,” says PuriFungi’s Audrey Speyer.
UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 29, 2023
This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch.
Farmbrite
DECEMBER 19, 2024
To cultivate robust crops, understanding the soil's condition is vital, which is where soil testing comes in. For composting systems, nutrients (like nitrogen) can be added in the form of green materials (grass clippings, kitchen scraps), and carbon (in the form of dry leaves, and straw) that can balance the nitrogen.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing.
Caff
JANUARY 24, 2024
Cheetah covered the basics of mycology (the study of fungi), mushroom cultivation techniques , and the pollutants that can be released when structures burn. Finally, everyone gathered around a long table covered in sterilized straw and learned how to inoculate different substrates with fungi spawn.
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