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. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone. Their “view is a 36-inch bubble,” says Clifford.

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Grain Farming Farming Food 135

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No longer did she speak about saving the environment or using fewer chemicals: Now, she said, “We want to start a revolution in the agri-supply chain.” Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert.

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Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 94

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. And we think everything through from “lab to dirt” by asking ourselves how what we build today will fare through the supply chain and how it will seamlessly integrate with existing grower practices.”

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Production Science Acre Soil Science 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Lisa Held What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds By Jennifer Jewell Jennifer Jewell, host of the Cultivating Place podcast, weaves diaristic memoir with science writing in this meditative reflection on the importance of seeds.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145