Ecology Fertilizer Straw 
UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 29, 2023
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. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
More Soil Protected With Conservation Tillage Conservation tillage and no-till methods protect soil health and reduce soil erosion, increase crop resilience, reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and save labor costs. The Census shows that between the 2017 and 2022 Census, the US lost approximately 1.8
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Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 28, 2023
The 50 years of farming at Bwlchwernen, according to the interconnected principles of health, ecology and a circular economy, have not only stewarded the farm’s natural biodiversity as a complete and thriving ecosystem, but also created the conditions to increase and improve its biodiversity potential.
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 Salton Sea is also suffering from eutrophication, or loss of oxygen, due largely to algae blooms fueled, in part, by fertilizer runoff.
Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 14, 2023
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50),
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