ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My little mad farm helps me do that. And since cover cropping is scalable to just about any size farm or garden, it made sense to conduct some field experiments of my own. I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In short, our farm is terribly set up in terms of efficiency or ease of planning. They are totally right, if you look at farming as a system of rigidly applying straight lines and strict rules onto the earth. Making that first change away from the “shoulds” of farm layout felt freakier than it should have.

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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. Abebe’s mantra, “nourish and heal,” is catching hold around the globe.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. Each year provides new opportunities to incorporate more regenerative practices.

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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.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Robert Bonnie, USDA Unlike with organic farming, climate-smart farming has no list of allowed or prohibited practices.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. As contamination rose, crop yields fell by 15 percent. Currently organic farms are permitted to use petroleum-based, non-PVC covers, granted that they are removed from the field at season’s end.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future. However, the upcoming food and farm bill is an opportunity to push for more climate-resilient policies that can benefit farmers and create healthier soils.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Keeping her farm well-managed is a responsibility she doesnt take lightly. Im very proud of that.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Adding a heavy dose of irony to the overall complexity of getting more acres farmed regeneratively is the fact that in some growing regions, this effort is being undermined by yet another critical climate solution: solar power. The challenges to farming, period—let alone transitioning to regenerative—can be high. It sounds easy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cover crops, like this clover growing on a farm in Wilbur, Washington, have proven beneficial for preventing soil erosion and chemical runoff that fouls waterways. Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 Photo by Edwin Remsberg/VWPics via AP Images.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food. Today, the five prairie dog species occupy just 2% of their historic range, and some occupy even less.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Its not overly reductive to say it boils down to a half century of intentional federal farm policy. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution. Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Why all the love for just two crops? Will it work?

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