Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Doing no-till while using [glyphosate] is not going to regenerate the planet,” says Whitlow, who points to the spectrum of regenerative farmers, some who prefer not to plough but still spray herbicides. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Reflecting on this miraculous process of renewal, American poet, Walt Whitman, expressed awe, bordering on horror, when he wrote: “What chemistry! The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

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