AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Renovo seed mixes will be available via a network of seed dealerships and ag co-operatives. Orders can also be placed online for direct shipment.

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Seeding Forage Crop Marketing 92

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Role of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces of Forage Legumes in Pre-Breeding as a Response to Climate Change. As above, but for a bunch of forages. Association study of crude seed protein and fat concentration in a USDA pea diversity panel. Maybe we can squeeze a bit more out of the D genome. I wonder what AI says about that.

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Forage Crop Yield Grain 214

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Early spring grazing is another advantage to having a stockpile of forage. When the snow melted off the fields, there was some green growth available amongst the stockpiled forage, and when spring arrived, we observed that the cattle were ready to return to grazing pasture rather than bale grazing. What class of livestock are they?

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Here are some fall weed-control tips, plus frost-seeding techniques for maximum spring growth.

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Pasture Forage Seeding Production 119

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Indigenous ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist foraged with her mom and grandmother in the Ohio River Valley as a child, then made the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota her home alongside her husband, Luke. My mom was an Indigenous woman from Korea, and she grew up foraging and growing her own food as a matter of survival.

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Forage Food Ecology Pesticide 141

Real Agriculture

MAY 23, 2024

Thanks for tuning in to this Thursday edition on RealAg Radio, brought to you by Pioneer Seeds Canada! Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Thursday edition on RealAg Radio, brought to you by Pioneer Seeds Canada! On this week’s Farmer Rapid Fire, host Lyndsey Smith checks in with: Ryan McCarron of Antigonish, N.S.;

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Forage Seeding 130

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Seed cover crops in September and October to harvest for feed in May.

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Forage Harvest Harvester Harvesting 98

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Once again, producers dust in their wheat seed at a shallow depth to maximize germination speed while waiting and hoping for rain. Drought tendencies are the new normal for Oklahoma weather.

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Forage Seeding Production 105

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops. Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops.

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Yield Seeding Crop Forage 297

Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 14, 2024

Photo credit: Shawn Landersz , Consultant at The Global Crop Diversity Trust Oh, and probably coincidentally, you can read about ILRI’s forage work in Somalia in the latest newsletter from the Seed Systems Group. See you there.

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Forage Seeding Livestock Crop 130

Real Agriculture

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s never too early to start thinking about harvest prep, especially as fall-seeded crops race towards the finish line in mid-summer. Read More It’s never too early to start thinking about harvest prep, especially as fall-seeded crops race towards the finish line in mid-summer. Franceschetti says.

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Forage Harvest Harvesting Harvester 130

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Variety selection, planting date, and seeding rate vary depending on the wheat's purpose, whether for grain, grain and grazing, or forage only. Learn more about fertility and insect and pest management.

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Forage Grain Fertilizer Seeding 111

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Ashley Knapton of Leeder AgriServices on the benefits of feed and forage testing; Ranulf Glanville with GrainFox App on the commodity markets; Nathan Phinney with Canadian Cattle Association on an update on Bill. Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by SGS. Read More

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Forage Marketing Cattle Seeding 167

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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Grain Seeding Farming Farming 138

NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Director, Public Policy rj.karney@nasda.org Sender: Agricultural Coalition Subject: Farm Bill orphan programs funding Download The post Letter supporting farm bill orphan programs appeared first on NASDA.

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Farming Farming Science Supply Chain 130

Western FarmPress

JULY 20, 2023

Make sure you plant on time and use treated seed.

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Forage Seeding 75

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There was extensive interbreeding between farmers and the local transitional foragers/herders before with the expansion of pastoralist groups into Europe from the Eurasian steppes around 3300 BC. Flax for seed or fibre use? Jeremy interviews one of the authors on his podcast. Inference of Admixture Origins in Indigenous African Cattle.

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Cattle Forage Crop Livestock 189

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the protein category, the new guidelines move meat, poultry, and eggs to the bottom tier, below seafood, nuts, seeds, and soy products. And you can spend days trying to find a fat person. These new guidelines demonize red meat especially. The world's fisheries are being decimated by overharvesting, especially by China.

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Poultry Grain Forage Pasture 107

Food Tank

MARCH 1, 2024

Especially in recent years, spending time with my hands in the soil—tending to seeds and seedlings—can feel beautiful and almost spiritual. As I wrote in this newsletter last year, seed-saving and seed sovereignty today protects food systems tomorrow. Where do you source seeds? This feels more urgent now than ever.

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Cultivation Food Seeding Farming 128

ProAg

AUGUST 11, 2023

The expansion of enterprise units gives more producers the same options for discounted insurance coverage as row crops.

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Forage Crop Cultivation Seeding 94

UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

It is mid-summer, and that time of the year to order your winter cover crop seeds. In this article I’ll examine the timing of winter cover crops and how to use late-seeded summer cover crops to provide residues and winter ground cover. Types of Winter Cover Crops There are three cover crop categories and seeding periods to consider.

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Seeding Cash Crop Crop Forage 98

Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC and Gowan SeedTech LLC announced they have entered into a sale agreement with Gowan acquiring Syngentas FarMore Technology Vegetable Seed Treatment Platform in the United States. The association also has over 100 associate and affiliate members, representing all facets of the seed industry.

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Seeding Technology biotechnology Grain 40

UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Image 4: Pictures taken 2 years apart on Jeremy Sweetens farm showing the increased forage biomass production after 2 years of adaptive grazing practices. Unfortunately, 69.5% The results of the trial were impressive.

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Acre Fertilizer Pasture Crop 97

Modern Farmer

MARCH 11, 2024

Not only does she mention them, she lists them as one of the top species to forage. Wong is a professional forager, finding, growing and collecting edible plants, many of which are considered weeds by the general population. Right: Seed collecting. If you begin foraging, it’s important to do so safely, sustainably and ethically.

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Food Forage Marketing Crop 125

Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer.

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Food Forage Agroecology Processing 131

Agri-tech

MAY 31, 2023

The ‘Pea Protein’ project is a collaboration between Germinal, a grass and forage seed specialists, and seed breeders, using a discovery made by John Innes Centre scientists 30 years ago. A £1m Innovate UK project that aims to have a significant impact on reducing the need for UK imports of soya has been announced today.

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Forage Seeding 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed, Inc. But ranchers have been slow to embrace it.

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Ranching Pasture Forage Cattle 111

Agwired

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Join the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) and more than 2,000 seed industry professionals from over 30 countries, Dec. 5-8, for the new Field Crop Seed Convention, now bigger and better than ever in its new home city of Orlando. RiceTec announced its new SQUAD seed treatment line with its 2024 rice seed offerings.

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Seeding Forage Yield Supply Chain 59

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Holt, who also works as an independent permaculture consultant and a guide for the foraging tour company No Taste Like Home , says the cooperative’s members haven’t yet paid themselves from Nuttery activities. Justin Holt shows off a handful of hickory nuts, which he says yield a milk similar to “liquid banana-nut bread.”

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Forage Processing Yield Production 141

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Moser and Ohio State University researchers think forage crops like alfalfa and hay hold promise. Forages are quite temperamental in terms of trying to get them established,” said Braden Campbell, an animal scientist at Ohio State University who is also working on the project. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.”

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Farming Farming Forage Acre 98

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Carbohydrates and Energy, and Fiber The amount of energy contained in hay or forage is contained in carbohydrates. The amount of water needed varies by species, animal age, stage of life, available live forage, and environmental temperatures. Water Water is probably the most critical component to the health of your animals.

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Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 92

Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

“They have a direct role on vegetation through herbivory and seed dispersal, create wallows and serve as prey and carrion for many other wildlife species.” Other challenges to elk across various states include development and the loss of habitat, lack of or low-quality forage, drought, disease and social tolerance.”

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Ranching Forage Pasture Food 115

Modern Farmer

JULY 11, 2024

Pollinators forage in areas with six to eight hours of full sunlight a day. Established plants are advised for starting smaller pollinator gardens (less than roughly 250 to 500 square feet); they are more expensive than seed, but they will establish more quickly, reducing time spent weeding.

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Seeding Forage Farmland Fertilizer 123

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In California, Ray, who grew up foraging for wild mushrooms in Sweden and the United States, spends each spring foraging for Black and Mediterranean Mustards, two of California’s most invasive edible plants. “Each seed or spore picked is one not being planted,” says Ray.

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Marketing Supply Chain Harvest Harvesting 96

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Becky as a grazier has honed her grazing management skills over the past 15 years by working with her father, attending conferences, being mentored by other farmers, and serving in a coordinator role of the farmer-to-farmer mentoring network with the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council.

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Cattle Forage Livestock Acre 52

ATTRA

AUGUST 31, 2023

Farmers have been reluctant to drill cover crop seed, out of fear that the planting would damage corn crops. However, University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines’ research showed that if cover crop seed is drilled when corn is young, it results in good germination and increased forage production without damaging much corn.

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Crop Seeding Forage Production 40

Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Seeds sales were $3.2 The payments for Milton-impacted Florida producers are for those who have Federal crop insurance coverage through the Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index (HIP-WI) endorsement and the Tropical Storm (TS) option. Sales for the third quarter 2024 were $6.8 billion, flat compared to the prior year period.

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