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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

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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Seeing the Farm with Fresh Eyes

ATTRA

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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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans.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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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

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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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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