UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. 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. At first, I thought this was what I needed to do.

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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 97

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. A 2022 Stanford University satellite study reported that although cover cropping reduces erosion and improves water quality, it also causes significant yield hits for corn and soybeans.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future. But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops.

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 96

ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

potash, or K on the periodic table), but the farmers would go ahead and apply potassium anyway because they saw increased yields when they did. One example: Arkansas farmers would do their soil tests, and often the test results would come back saying there was adequate potassium (a.k.a. Channel your inner four-year-old.

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Farming Farming Plowing Crop 40

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. Now, climate-smart agriculture aims to recapture some of that carbon. “A

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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 82