UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

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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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 96

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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. The longer rest time allows new plants to grow from the seeds in the soil seed bank.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into.

Crop 79

Crop Plowing Manure Farming 79

Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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?

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Greenhouse Plowing Harvest Harvesting 52

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here. It is located on 1.2 So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”

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Farming Farming Food Production 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Science Harvest Harvester Harvesting 52