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The Healing Power of Collaboration – Timber Ridge, Nanton, Alberta

RR2CS

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. Glen: For the last seven or eight years we’ve been seeding brassicas with oats and forage peas.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

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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The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie With Beavers

Modern Farmer

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. 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. Bob Boucher with a beaver.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. That’s where the sorghum-sudangrass comes in.

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Can Mushrooms Help Extinguish Toxic Waste?

Modern Farmer

And mushrooms of all kinds sprout as they feast on crop waste, coffee grounds and horse manure. Yeast feeds on sugars, for example, to produce alcohol, while certain mold strains churn out penicillin and other antibiotics. More recently, mycologists have been unleashing fungi on common industrial and consumer waste.

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How to Improve Long-Term Soil Health on Your Farm

Farmbrite

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. By properly managing grazing intensity, pastureland can maintain healthy vegetation cover and provide adequate forage for livestock. Overgrazing can deplete the available forage, leading to inadequate nutrition for your animals.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S.