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Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone. “It’s that things can go wrong.

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Closing the Loop on Poop

Modern Farmer

Unlike wildlife scat , which spreads seeds and returns nature’s nutrients in a balanced way, most conventional pet diets yield large amounts of waste. Lessons From Mushers and Others Composting is the controlled breakdown of organic matter into humus, a rich soil amendment many prefer over chemical fertilizers.

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Back to School with Nice Roots Farm: Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System

Share Food Program

Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3. Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. Seeds, fertilizer, farmed animals, trucks used for transportation, packaging operations and grocery stores are all parts of our food system. Welcoming our Wellness: Food as Medicine.

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Producing the Perfect Potato and Soil Health to Handle Environmental Stress—The Perry Farm—Chin, Alberta

RR2CS

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Start-Up Journeys after World Agri-Tech

World Agri-Tech

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal. We are also trying to raise a seed round in 6 months for further growth.”

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much. Is it inappropriate, indulgent, myopic to contextualize my understanding of seed writ large with my understanding of self and place?” Jewell asks.

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