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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. I was 10 years old when neighbors began using crop dusters to apply pesticides and herbicides. This means that many farmers continue to apply herbicides to eliminate a winter cover crop.

Farming

Farming Farming Acre Seeding

Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment. Sometimes we plant sorghum grass in the really compacted soil because it helps to burst open the heavy tractor pan that has developed in the soil over the years.

Farming

Farming Farming Forage Seeding

Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

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