Real Agriculture

JULY 1, 2024

Proper staging is important for understanding how to scout and manage corn, whether for timing fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or fungicide applications. It’s also critical for understanding plant development, and how stressors at different stages can affect results, including yield, cob size, and kernel weight.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. Adding the right amount of fertilizer is an essential practice for nutrient management based on your farm's goals and soil conditions. One way we see farms overspending is through the overuse of fertilizers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The 2022 Student Organic Seed Symposium and the 2021 Northeast Organic Seed Conference built robust and lasting collaborations. Maintaining yields and managing production costs.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. Seed tubers should be planted 10–15 cm deep, with in-row spacing of 20–30 cm and row spacing of 75–90 cm. Soil type and texture have a significant impact on potato harvest quality and yield.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

million seed round in 2022. Maximizing yield at minimal input cost is an existential problem in agriculture. Maximizing yield at minimal input cost is an existential problem in agriculture. Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I I seek out purity of ingredients, those that speak to my heart, and that is why for the last 10 years I’ve been collecting heirloom wheat seeds—to one day plant and watch them grow, to learn from them, and pass on their radiant life force through a loaf of bread, from the heart,” Velazquez said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

More efficient watering, in other words, could mean healthier crops and higher yields, but an increase in overall water use. “So These methods include wide row spacing, planting multiple seeds per hole, and planting drought-tolerant varieties of seeds. Our crops are suited to fit the environment,” he says.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 13, 2025

Key challenges: Are you looking to reduce input costs, optimize yield, enhance sustainability, or comply with regulations? Resource optimization: Software that monitors input usage, such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides, to reduce waste and improve sustainability.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. A Market Worth Millions If kelp forests disappear, so would wild-harvested seed for farmed kelp. American farmers can expect to pay about $1 a foot for string inoculated with kelp seed.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 18, 2024

UfarmX discovered that by providing drought-resistant seeds, organic fertilizers like rabbit urine, and education on sustainable methods, farmers were able to triple their crop yields and significantly increase revenue. UFarmX recently partnered with The SEED Project, a non-governmental organization working with the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. As Justin Nanninga, from Neeralandia, Alta.,

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In Mexico, climate change has caused a decline in yields—including a 35 percent reduction in the bean crop while increasingly ferocious hurricanes have wiped out fruit crops. Smallholders are witnessing the recovery of the fertility and moisture levels of their soils, higher productivity and competitiveness.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 26, 2024

CIMMYT also helps them access seeds to grow crops that are more resistant to droughts and pests. It is no longer about increasing the yields and production, Govaerts says. It is about making sure that you have a minimum amount of yields and production independent of the climate shocks and drought and heat.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

If we spray an insecticide, yes, maybe it kills that one insect, but it also could potentially impact other pollinators that will decrease my yield,” says Oxedine. For example, simple but measured clearing of invasive plants, such as cultural burning, yields surprising results when Earth is allowed to finally breathe.

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Cropaia

MAY 20, 2023

Planting density is a crucial factor in agriculture that significantly influences crop yield and quality. Determining the optimal planting density involves considering various factors, such as plant size and growth habit, soil fertility, water and nutrient availability, and climate and weather conditions.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. The seedballs contain a dense powerhouse of nutrients and protective elements that give the enclosed seeds a greater chance to flourish in a challenging climate. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AgroLiquid , a leader in high-efficiency crop liquid fertilizer solutions, has acquired Montys Plant Food Company , a Louisville-based specialist in soil health and plant nutrition technology. Corn and soybean growers have a new, proven approach to delivering soil nutrients that can lead to higher yields.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, we'll share the top 10 tips to boost your farm's efficiency, productivity, and yields – all with a dash of farm flair! Regularly amend your soil with organic matter, such as compost or cover crops, to improve fertility. Quality seeds ensure better germination rates, stronger plant growth, and ultimately, higher yields.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Their efforts have yielded varying degrees of success. “It’s that things can go wrong.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. She chuckles while explaining how she got there: in an RV with two loved ones and two dogs.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the past few decades of production ag, we have been laser focused on high yields. During the segment, they interviewed an analyst regarding the national corn yield average and how we were below trendline yields. If we look at the last decade of actual national corn yields, we have seen no notable increase in average yield.

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Cropaia

JULY 30, 2023

Nutrient deficiencies can significantly impact crop health and productivity, leading to reduced yields and compromised plant defenses against diseases and pests. Nutrient deficiencies can result from various factors, such as poor soil nutrition, imbalanced fertilization, inadequate soil pH levels, or other environmental stresses.

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AGRIVI

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In light of these pressures, profitability today is about more than just maximizing yields; its about optimizing every aspect of farm management particularly when it comes to controlling input costs. Discover two key features of AGRIVI FMS that help optimize input use.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While location and yield will always be important, changes to both crop and animal genetics, climate shifts and other new technologies are bringing to light subtle changes that have been growing for decades. Fertilizer prices have been a challenge to all growers, along with labor. But with great change comes great volatility.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Overapplying readily available N can also interfere with the uptake of other nutrients and lead to yield drag and profit loss, just as underapplying can. High-salt fertilizers add insult to injury by inhibiting soil biology and creating osmotic stress in plants. The plant needs to maintain electrochemical balance, and it needs water.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. They till less, plant cover crops after harvest, and have drastically cut their use of fertilizer and insecticides.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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Agwired

JULY 8, 2024

This reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers, offering farmers greater flexibility in their nutrient management strategies while lowering the environmental impact of farming. Formulations will be offered as seed treatment and foliar application in key agricultural crops. ” .

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. carbon emissions) by another large number (yield per acre), you get a small number of carbon emissions associated with each serving of lettuce, for example. The result?

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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.

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Agwired

MARCH 27, 2024

In February GO Seed welcomed Jack Pieper as a Research Agronomist. Jack, an agronomy professional with a background in sustainable agriculture research, joined to spearhead the Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities program led by GO Seed, “Cover Crop Seed Production Grown with Climate Smart Wheat.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Without consistent water, it’s difficult for plants to use the fertilizers you put into the soil. Be sure you check your seed packet or this chart from Mary’s Heirloom Seeds for accurate information about how much space to give your plants. It’s easy to think that early planting equals early yield and a longer growing season.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Therefore, to maximize profits, they must focus on areas they can influence: achieving high crop yields and quality and securing cost savings through efficient input application and farm operations. Precision Agriculture Rather than just chasing yields, profitable farmers work hard to utilize their inputs efficiently.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Variable application maps from xarvio FIELD MANAGER ensure the targeted use of seeds, crop protection and nutrition can be executed by seeders, sprayers, and fertilizer applicators. It also saves them time and through targeted agronomic actions it supports sustainability, while reducing the impact on the environment.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll.

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