ATTRA

JANUARY 19, 2025

A 20-year study on diversified cropping systems fertilized with livestock manure, led by Iowa State University researchers, showed environmental benefits but not the expected carbon sequestration. The study results were published in Nature Sustainability. The long-term field study at Iowa State’s Marsden Farm contrasts a traditional two-year corn-soybean rotation with three- and four-year systems that include alfalfa, clover, or oats and replace most of the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer fo

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Rachel Laudan

JANUARY 19, 2025

Twelve hours was all it took for my cat, Mittens, to discover how much she loved being rolled from room to room on my rollator, her new favorite perch. Apart… The post Three Cheers for Rollators, Oxygen Concentrators, the Internet, and Friends appeared first on Rachel Laudan.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 19, 2025

Western University professor Joshua M. Pearce wrote on The Conversation about a Canadian study that found “solar shepherds” grazing sheep under solar panels can earn incomes equivalent to doctors, senior engineers, or lawyers. The study evaluated grazing sheep on small solar projects (200 kilowatts) and large solar projects (465 megawatts).

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ATTRA

JANUARY 19, 2025

Researchers from South Dakota State University, West Texas A&M University, and Texas A & M AgriLife Research are inviting U.S. producers who have livestock grazing on grassland to complete an online survey on pasture cropping and livestock grazing. The survey is part of a study designed to introduce the concept of pasture cropping, an innovative land-management system that seamlessly integrates cropping with pasture production, and to evaluate livestock producers’ perception of t

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