ATTRA

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The American Society of Horticultural Science published a story in HortScience on a study that examined the economic viability of cover crops for citrus orchards in Florida. Cover crops can enhance soil health and tree well-being in citrus orchards, but they require investment in labor, seed, fuel and machinery.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Fruit, she says, had not made the same progress in breeding science as bigger crops such as vegetables and grains. “I From her test orchard in Clarksville—25 acres of diverse cherry trees—she began breeding to address the primary threats. She remembers a breeding class coming out to the Clarksville orchard.

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ATTRA

JULY 20, 2024

The project will catalog and characterize agricultural waste products such as nut shells, fruit peels, and orchard trimmings, to make it easier for companies to use these agricultural feedstocks to make polymers, chemicals, materials, and fuels.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

And for those new to the craft and science of beekeeping, some find themselves unable to keep their hives going over the years. I’ve seen this in my own fruit orchard. Successful beekeeping requires attention and a regular time commitment for colony management, feeding and parasite control.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. We can’t survey everywhere,” says Regan Smyth, vice-president of conservation and science for NatureServe, “which makes a lot of things hard to know.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 112

Modern Farmer

JULY 11, 2023

There’s no sign of HLB in the Booth orchards yet, and Plumlee aims to keep it that way. We’ve been fairly successful thus far; it still hasn’t been found in commercial orchards,” says Plumlee. You keep doing the science and the trials and try to solve this puzzle. You can’t just throw up your hands and quit.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

We like to think of these wood chips as encouraging the fungi from the native forest around to come into our fields and partner with our orchards and with our crops.” He attended the program without a background in science, but it didn’t take him long to feel comfortable behind a microscope.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The development of this ecosystem follows Agtonomy's partnership strategy aimed at rapidly scaling agricultural autonomy and robotic solutions for the greatest value to farmers.

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Tractor Manufacturing Orchard Mechanics 52

Daily Yonder

AUGUST 2, 2023

As confirmed by Dave Kanzer, Director of Science and Interstate Matters for the Colorado River Water Conservation District, many of Colorado’s major cities, namely Denver, Aurora, and Colorado Springs, rely on relatively new, or vulnerable, water rights for their drinking supply from the Colorado River. The trees might all die in an orchard.

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Ruralism Water Rights Agriculture Agriculture 89

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

But armed with advanced degrees in agricultural sciences, they started with aquaponics, growing leafy vegetables in tilapia tanks, adding hydroponically grown edible flowers before expanding to microgreens. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.

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Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 121

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Photo courtesy Jim Jones) While US farmers have been slower to embrace hedgerows for their ecological benefits, the science of hedgerows as natural havens has become inarguable. A hedgelaying workshop hosted by the Ontario Skills Network. The biggest benefit of hedgerows is providing wildlife and biodiversity on farmlands,” explains Long.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

My conclusion based on community engagement and technical science is that promoting the right strategic land repurposing in multi-benefit projects in rural communities can bring positive side effects and decrease negative ones. I have engaged with hundreds of stakeholders in rural California, agreeing often and disagreeing sometimes.

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Ruralism Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 95

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare.

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CalCAN

AUGUST 10, 2023

Christine Gemperle, almond farmer and CalCAN advisor recently drove to Sacramento from her orchard in Ceres to testify in support of equipment sharing and sustainable agriculture investments alongside CalCAN staff. Our network is what keeps CalCAN a strong and successful collaborative coalition.

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Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

Description of Services Assist with setting up biological control experiments (applications of predatory mites, food sprays, and predator attractants) according to protocol and site maps in commercial walnut and winegrape farms Carry out weekly field monitoring of spider mites and natural enemies (using visual observations and yellow sticky cards) (..)

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Ecology Food Orchard Farming 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One partner rejuvenated the old apple orchard, planted another 120 heritage-variety trees and started a cider business. “A I’m aware of the constant rhetoric, the anti-wolf sentiment of hunters and outfitters and politicians who blatantly misrepresent the science talking about the detrimental effects of wolves on elk,” he said.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 112

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Table of Contents The Physical Science Focus on Solutions Strong Environmental Justice Discussions Regional Chapters Northern Great Plains Northeast Southeast Caribbean Midwest Southern Great Plains Northwest Southwest Alaska Hawai’i and the U.S.-Affiliated the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. And new science about the connection between water pollution and air quality suggests more investment is needed. New science shows that airborne algae and harmful toxins produced in oxygen-free, nutrient-rich waters are a growing concern.

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Pesticide Acre Agriculture Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Stokes’ findings were published in the journal Northwest Science in 2014. Plant a holly orchard and let nature do the work for you,” read one brochure. The slow pace of science guaranteed that the growers had bought themselves time. In the biggest holly clump they found, roughly 645 square feet, they found no native plants.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Instead of following a single, linear thread (reductionist approach), the science of sustainable agriculture acknowledges and attempts to illuminate the wholistic truth that the thread is part of a fabric, a braid, a web where everything is connected to everything else. I should have 34 years with NCAT, not 24.

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Ecology Farming Farming Rural Development 40

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

By the time the Nüümü returned to their valley, the settlers had turned it into a constellation of cattle ranches and orchards. The utility says it has reduced the lake’s dust emissions by more than 99 percent, but a 2020 National Academies of Sciences report found the area still doesn’t meet air quality standards.

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Water Rights Ranching Cattle Ecology 141

Daily Yonder

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s not rocket science.” Strengthening an Agricultural Economy Is not “Rocket Science” Taber said crops like vegetables, fruits, and nuts are more profitable per acre than crops like tobacco, which has been a historic staple crop for North Carolina. Building rural livelihoods is the thing we know how to do.

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