Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

The Chartered Institute of Waste Management states that, “Around 135,500 tonnes of agricultural plastic waste is produced each year in the UK,” and Defra contends that only 20-30% is turned into new products. Farmers once used straw or other organic matter instead of plastic mulch.

Straw 98

Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. 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.

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvester 105

Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

Soils with high concentrations of heavy metals and pollutants are not ideal for agricultural production. Finally, everyone gathered around a long table covered in sterilized straw and learned how to inoculate different substrates with fungi spawn. A participant breaks open some packed spawn material to spread through the straw.

Straw 52

Straw Greenhouse Livestock Farming 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Using conservation tillage involves covering at least 30% of soil surface with crop residue and/or straw following planting. No-till farming leaves the soil surface undisturbed by tillage and crop residue is left on the soil surface. The Census shows that between the 2017 and 2022 Census, the US lost approximately 1.8

Agriculture 94

Agriculture Agriculture Pasture Acre 94

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.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

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.” Instead, they are undertaken on land that has been degraded by decades of continuous arable production. The first products were just to control mildew.

Ploughing 52

Ploughing Crop Yield Farming 52

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. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake. Water quality isn’t just water quality.

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98