Farming Grain Plowing 
Daily Yonder
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. But they can’t do it alone. on public-sector agricultural research.
DTN
JULY 24, 2023
As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements. Consider this scenario.
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Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.
UnderstandingAg
JULY 16, 2023
For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers.
The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
The cause of the tragedy, according to Illinois State Police , was “excessive winds blowing dirt from farm fields across the highway leading to zero visibility.” Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Dialing up Diversity One standard approach to cleaning the water that runs off farms is planting cover crops.
Trimble Agriculture
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Farmers have been navigating the same farm lending company practices for more than a century. When the Federal Farm Loan Act was passed in 1916, it gave farmers access to desperately needed capital. But since then, farm lending companies have remained stuck in the past and seen little change. had reached an all-time high of 6.8
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