Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting.

Crop 52

Crop Plowing Rural Development Mechanics 52

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2

Farming 52

Farming Farming Food Production 52

Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A lot of that application is submitting records and forms and attestations and showing how you can trace products from seeds to end sales. Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” of rain in six weeks we saw last summer!

Crop Rotation 52

Crop Rotation Crop Farming Farming 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

Science 52

Science Harvest Harvester Harvesting 52

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Overgrazing pasture is a negative disturbance just the same as plowing or spraying, so minimizing the negative compounding, cascading effects through adequate rest and recovery is key. The longer rest time allows new plants to grow from the seeds in the soil seed bank.

Pasture 105

Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

Modern Farmer

APRIL 21, 2025

In areas where topsoil preservation isnt as important, stalk-shredding and deep moldboard plowing are effective controls. New Developments Trait tables help farmers make sense of seed choices. To combat the voracious larvae, initial methods of control involved cultural practices. Pesticides were also used to eliminate moths and larvae.

Agriculture 53

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Plowing 53

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Traveling through Appalachia, Tessa Desmond and her team kept hearing the seed stories. He had overheard Desmond discussing seeds with his neighbor. People have hung on to seeds even when they aren’t actively planting and tending them,” says Desmond. We’ve included audio samples of oral histories from the project.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

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

Agriculture 88

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 88

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. Plastics are tightly woven into the fabric of modern agriculture.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.

Agriculture 131

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Plowing 131

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility. He also signed up to raise cover crops for seed production, which qualified him for the alternative crop portion of the initiative.

Crop 140

Crop Farming Farming Acre 140

Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Seeds can be sown in the broken-down residue of the previous crop, allowing soil microbes to naturally break down roots and feed the new plants without being minced up by the plow, while weeds are suppressed by the existing ground cover.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Livestock Crop 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for corn and 3.5 percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Cash Crop 52

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Their dad and grandpa spent their lives getting rid of all the weeds and they wanted [the land] to be black and plowed because that’s the way successful farming looks and feels,” Cobb said. Landowners Cobb leased from were similarly averse to mixing things up. Some of the challenges can be impossible to plan for.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

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.

Food 60

Food Crop Processing Tractor 60

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Related Stories Feed the people Christian Letourneau , February 10, 2021 Eater What seed-saving can tell us about the end of the world Kea Krause , November 16, 2022 Orion A collective future for American agriculture? Please consider making a donation to support our work.

Food 52

Food Greenhouse Cattle Production 52