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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

Corn and soybeans will grow here sporadically; however, wet falls or an early freeze usually prevent harvest. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers.

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Commentary: With Agriculture Facing a ‘Great Collision,’ More Farmers Seek to Nourish and Heal  

Daily Yonder

In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils. For instance, funding for the development of perennial crops that yield multiple harvests over several years after just a single planting has been miniscule. In the U.S.,

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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

Overgrazing pasture is a negative disturbance just the same as plowing or spraying, so minimizing the negative compounding, cascading effects through adequate rest and recovery is key. IF there was good yielding, high brix forage underneath the snow, the cows plow through it without regard for snow depth.

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Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system

ATTRA

He found that undersowing the clover was an amazing way to get the field covered by harvest. He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.

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The Nature of Time

Hartwood Farm

Individual days and weeks can sometimes seem so long (especially when that harvest list runs onto three pages!), Note Beulah’s careful supervision of the plow. For some reason, the plow and the field conditioner (but not any of our ten other tractor implements) require constant monitoring? Can our harvesting metrics improve?

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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This farmer says he reluctantly throws away enough cauliflower to feed a province

Agritecture Blog

Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We Second Harvest CEO Lori Nikkel says the food rescue charity supported 4.3 Credit: Hektor Habili/Second Harvest.

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