[Link] Prioritizing cover crops after harvest
When making management decisions regarding cover crop biomass production, there are few costs producers can control.
Day: November 19, 2020
[Link] Cargill adopts regenerative agriculture | The Western Producer
Cargill has jumped on the regenerative ag bandwagon. In September, the Minneapolis company said it wants to increase the amount of land farmed with co…
[Link] How Climate-Positive Cultivation Is Growing Greener Cannabis
By implementing cutting-edge technology and the best production practices, it is possible to grow top-shelf cannabis in a way that’s sustainable for…
[Link] Year-round grazing is about summer management, not winter feeding
When livestock producers and ranchers think about year-round grazing, most think about winter feeding strategies — bale grazing, swath grazing and m…
[Link] ‘Farmers are interested in training, but have so much else to do’
Staff are the key to any business, but why can farmers, who are also employers, be sometimes reluctant to secure the best team around them? And why is…
[Link] Soil School: Ideas and innovation with Woody Van Arkel
Keep your soil covered, do as little tillage as possible, maintain a living root system 365 days a year, and fit it all into an economic model that ma…
[Link] Quantifying the compensatory effect of increased soil temperature under plastic film mulching on crop growing degree days in a wheat–maize rotation system
Plastic film mulching (PM) has a compensatory effect on crop growing degree days by increasing soil temperature. However, only few studies addressed t…
