Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. If your soil is not healthy enough to support healthy crops, you have to add fertilizer or risk losing your investment in seeds or plants. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health?

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Jenna also opens up about her experience as a BIPOC farmer and land steward in Alberta, and the importance of creating accessibility for marginalized communities to access land to grow food, forage, and save seeds, while participating in dialogue on land stewardship and climate change. Why are there not more BIPOC seed keepers?

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Eventually, the Cobbs would decide to bring in livestock to graze, mimicking herds of wild buffalo that once roamed these prairies and added nutrients with their manure, and voila: They had meat to market while restoring the earth, storing carbon, and keeping the land farmland.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The initiative aims to triple the productivity of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa in 20 years by promoting green manure and cover crops that restore soil health, combat drought, and enhance farm resilience. Every seed is important. Theres nothing more meaningful than planting a seed and watching it grow, says Waters.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. Cattle weren’t allowed near the riparian areas until the beginning of September, after wetland plants had gone to seed. Beaver habitat was nurtured.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. Last April, Montana took a notable step in promoting good soil practices by designating an official Healthy Soils Week.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

billion in 7,200 on-farm renewable energy projects, including installing manure digesters and solar panels and $6 billion in rural electric coops. Regulating Pesticides and Other Chemicals Ongoing pesticide approvals and regulations generally chug along without much disruptioneven as administrations change.

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