Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Regardless of the approach, implementing crop rotation is crucial for maintaining soil fertility, minimizing pest and disease issues, and ensuring sustainable agriculture practices. Don't over-fertilize.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. Imperial County residents were exposed to over 1,200 pounds of pesticides—via the air, water, and on the plants themselves—per square mile from 2017-2019. In 2002, U.S.

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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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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The entire production chain of the feedstuffs going into modern confinement dairies and feedlots involves the burning of fossil fuels to produce the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides necessary for large-scale, mono-crop, industrial production of corn and soy.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

fertilizer application, irrigation, machinery use, pesticide application) and the sources of carbon sequestration (e.g., And, perhaps most importantly, how do we know those results are accurate and reliable? reduced tillage, cover crops, treed acres).

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Kerston, however, insists that bad practices such as using synthetic fertilizer consistently show up in the data. “If

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RR2CS

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2018, the Halls have been on a mission to collaborate with local organizations to rejuvenate their land, which was previously subjected to conventional farming methods involving fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. And most importantly, the cows leave behind manure and help us fertilize the land.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

The Problem Although not all fire fallout is toxic, the impacts on livestock and crops from wildfire ash containing contaminants from household products, vehicles, fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, plastics, electrical systems, etc. Designated Containment Areas Keep pesticides/fertilizers, etc.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 19, 2023

They also require regular watering, pruning and fertilizing throughout their lifespans so they don't die prematurely. There are many pesticides available, as well as natural methods of pest and wildlife prevention, that can help you to keep your crop safe from insects and animals. prepared for the long haul.

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CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

The Alternative Manure Management Program ( AMMP ) that reduces methane emissions on dairy and livestock operations includes no funding at all for 2023-24. Organic systems are shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon while also eliminating the use of fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

In Mexico, as in the rest of the modern world, biologically diverse traditional agriculture is increasingly being crowded out by hybrid and genetically modified crops that can withstand heavy applications of industrial herbicides and pesticides.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Suppressing pests and disease Much of pest management in conventional systems relies on synthetic pesticides, often alongside genetically modifying a single variety for resistance to sprays, in the case of herbicides. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2022, the UN warned that damage to land by humans is increasing and 40% of land is degraded , depleted of soil fertility, water, natural resources and biodiversity. The more fertile the soil is, the more organisms it has living in it. Pesticides are damaging to soil, killing a range of organisms that are vital to soil health.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

In 1951, pioneering organic farmer, Frank Newman Turner, took up the theme in his book, Fertility Farming , referring to mycorrhizal associations he writes (p.50), Scientists tell us that in addition to soil disturbance, a wide range of pesticides can affect the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Representatives from Bayer and CropLife America, the pesticide trade group, were also present as sponsors of the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americans pavilion. For instance, Penunia pointed to how in her home country of the Philippines, farmers grow rice with ducks who fertilize the soil, an integrated system promoted by the U.N.’s

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate. Big Ag is a major polluter.

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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. Poop covered the streets.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This would further enable farmers to drastically cut pesticide use and increase habitat availability for a wide range of species. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. Diverse plants and manure must take their place.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Harold had a big “aha moment” when he was introduced to the practices of Brendan Rockey, a regenerative potato farmer in Colorado , who is significantly reducing reliance on pesticides and fungicides, and in turn, planting companion crops, green manure and cover crops, and integrating livestock to add nutrients back into the soil.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Many farms and feedlots have runoff, whether this is excess manure, pesticides and herbicides or fertilizers such as phosphorus and nitrogen, both implicated in climate change. Not only do beaver wetlands capture stormwater, they also function as a “sewage treatment plant.”

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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.

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