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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rice domestication pushed back to about the same time as the Fertile Crescent. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. Maize arrived in lowland South America in a pre-domesticated state, and stayed like that for a long time. No word on the role of expert harvesters.

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Maize Crop Fertilizer Harvest

Complete Practical Guide on Organic Maize Farming

Agric4profits

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Organic maize farming focuses on growing maize without synthetic chemicals, relying on natural methods for pest control and fertilization. Organic maize farming involves using organic seeds and natural inputs like compost and manure.

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Maize Manure Compost Farming

Super Gro For Maize Farming Success

Agric4profits

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Super Gro for maize farming is an innovative growth enhancer designed to address the challenges of achieving high yields and maintaining soil fertility.

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Maize Farming Farming Fertilizer

Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In August, Rich Earth released a Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine , available for free on their website. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots. But the potential benefits of fertilizing with human urine reach far beyond the fields of Vermont.

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Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. Hopi corn thrives without fertilizers, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop

Future-Proofing Farms: How CIMMYT Is Helping Farmers Adapt to the Climate Crisis

Food Tank

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is working across the globe to help farmers access the information and resources they need to future-proof their farms. The organizations research projects seek to improve the fertility and water retention of the land while increasing the soil carbon load.

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Study Identifies Pearl Millet as Pollinator Food Source

ATTRA

JUNE 18, 2024

Although wind-pollinated grasses are not usually considered a pollinator food source, scientists observed honey bees, lined earwigs, and maize calligrapher hover flies feeding on the pearl millet, as well as other pollinator species.

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Food Maize Fertilizer Science

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch or irrigation. Dry farming has been a Hopi tradition for several millennia.

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Seeding Crop Farming Farming

Building Resilience Through Localization in West and Central Africa

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. “At the local level, one should be able to produce as much as what is needed.” Most agricultural production in West and Central Africa is from smallholder farmers.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture

From Faltering to Flourishing: Local Food Supply Chains are Making a Comeback

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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Maize Science Food Crop

124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. Demanda Colectiva , Mexico The Demanda Colectiva has fought to protect Mexico’s native maize varieties, which are threatened by uncontrolled cross-pollination from genetically modified corn.

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Brainfood: Pacific plant use, Rapa Nui crops, E African crops, Cotton domestication, Fertile Crescent Neolithic, Dutch Neolithic, S Italy crops, Rice domestication, Maize domestication

Complete Practical Guide on Organic Maize Farming

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Super Gro For Maize Farming Success

Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Future-Proofing Farms: How CIMMYT Is Helping Farmers Adapt to the Climate Crisis

Study Identifies Pearl Millet as Pollinator Food Source

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Building Resilience Through Localization in West and Central Africa

From Faltering to Flourishing: Local Food Supply Chains are Making a Comeback

The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

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