Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. This “leaky system” refers to what is not absorbed by the crops on the field, most dangerously, in this case, fertilizer. “It’s

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Fertilizer Farming Farming Acre 145

Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) provides loans to farmers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial sources.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. Once again, it mostly comes down to finance. “A Some of the challenges can be impossible to plan for.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52