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.
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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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.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 1, 2024
As the companies see it, the process is more efficient than growing fibers naturally; traditional silk, for example, is biodegradable and long-lasting, but cultivation can use large amounts of water and pesticides. Those fibers can be plant-derived, mycelium, cultivated animal cells, microbe-derived, recycled materials and blends.
Sustainable Harvest International
APRIL 22, 2024
Over time, conventional agricultural methods lead to soil degradation, threatening our ability to cultivate food. Opting for reusable alternatives such as tote bags, metal water bottles, and reusable metal straws makes a difference. You can also reduce your use of plastic by reusing items you already have.
Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 14, 2023
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. How significant those increases are compared with, for example, the higher levels of root colonisation on organic farms (see below), is not clear.
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