Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

million empty pesticide and fertilizer containers and nearly 300,000 empty seed and pesticide bags. The Agricultural Container Research Council operates in 46 states collecting and recycling agricultural crop protection, animal health, fertilizer and pest control containers such as jugs and drums.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

By avoiding synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, it nurtures both the land and the environment. Millet, a nutritious cereal grain, thrives in organic farming systems. The process ensures healthier crops while preserving soil fertility.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides.

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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.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

A fertile land can be a fertile civilization The swath of land between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in Mesopotamia was one of the most fertile lands known to humans, as was the riparian land of the Nile River in Ancient Egypt. Excessive fertilization has polluted aquifers with nitrates.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. During a demo of a drone spraying a pesticide over rows of corn, the operators laughed as a gentle breeze blew the mist toward the onlookers. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” He stopped using pesticides in the early 1980s, got certified organic in the ‘90s, and over time, built a highly diversified farm that produces corn, oats, wheat, barley, and vegetables while raising cattle, chickens, and pigs outdoors.

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

EPA is warning people of the significant health risks to pregnant individuals and their developing babies exposed to DCPA and will be pursuing action to address the serious, permanent, and irreversible health risks associated with the pesticide as quickly as possible.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

This means you'll waste less time, money, and resources on things that don't contribute much value or might even be detrimental to your farm's growth (like using expensive fertilizers when cheaper ones work just as well). Make Sure Equipment is Working Properly Before the Season Begins.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. I was 10 years old when neighbors began using crop dusters to apply pesticides and herbicides.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. turning grain into flour or milk into cheese), which may face different tariff structures or allow for premium pricing. Buy local when possible.)

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And while many states have acted to restrict farms’ ability to spray pesticides near those schools, Congressional lawmakers are considering multiple proposals that could block them from doing so in the future. The bill had strong support among groups that represent the agriculture, landscaping, and pesticide industries.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), Pesticide use has increased more than 150%. and various production technologies.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He was paid to plant it by the Olmsted County Groundwater Protection and Soil Health Program , a local effort that seeks to reduce overall fertilizer use by building soil—therefore cutting down on the nutrients that enter waterways—while helping farmers save money. But what can we do to prevent this in the first place?”

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction. The Quinoa Bust explores the work that went into popularizing the ancient Andean grain and the new disasters that came with its popularity.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll.

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DTN

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A third party, such as a grain marketer can help source sustainable grains. Specific Types of Sustainable Practices Part of the 45Z tax credit is based on the carbon intensity (CI) of the grain. Since a portion of the tax credit is based on the CI score of the grain – from $0.20

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome. Photo submitted.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

We ordered the bulk of our supplies last year, before the current war, and aren’t facing a fraction of the trouble larger farms that are now sourcing their increasingly tight fertilizer or herbicide supplies. Likewise, the majority of farmland in the US relies on artificial fertilizers. My goal is for us to not all become fossils!

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Instead, we are fall ridging for potatoes directly into grain stubble, using our irrigation to get the soil to the right moisture, to enable a single pass. They don’t treat any of their grain seed, along with some varieties of their potatoes. “As They produce over 18,000 tonnes of pathogen free organic fertilizer. “We

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 18, 2024

What Our Investigation Revealed Several states are trying to phase out the use of pesticides containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), long-lasting chemicals linked to serious health risks including cancer, liver damage, and reproductive effects that have already contaminated farm fields, drinking water, and human bodies.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Farmers no longer reliant on horses no longer needed to grow crops to feed them and thus oats and other “small grains” began to vanish from the landscape. In the years after World War II, U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 5, 2025

Grain and feed exports are expected to reach $37.7 Lower-than-expected sales of baked and prepared goods, corn, feed, and distiller grains are to blame for the decline in exports to Canada, while competition from South American grain along with increased self-sufficiency efforts are contributing to the decline of U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 22, 2024

His own operation had been diversified, with cows, pigs, and various grains and alfalfa grown in rotation. CRP enabled Andrews to preserve the land, restore its fertility, and sequester carbon, because instead of a farmer paying him to rent the cropland, the government paid him—less, but enough—to fallow it.

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