[Link] Digging deeper into soil amelioration during National Science Week
Soil science spans a range of disciplines, including soil formation, classification and mapping, physical, chemical, biological and nutrition and is e…
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[Link] Help pastures withstand drought
While ranchers around the region are working with less or lower-quality forages, those who have implemented certain rotational grazing principles mig…
[Link] Harvest 2021: Fungicide-free wheat hits 10t/ha
Nick Dymond’s unique cropping approach of not using fungicides or insecticides and a focus on crop nutrition has seen yields of his Extase winter wh…
[Link] SOIL HEALTH EXPERT WANTS FARMERS TO MIMIC NATURE, NOT CONTROL IT
Ray Archuleta is a professional soil scientist who spent more than 30 years working for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. He tells Bro…
[Link] Abandoning meat may spell disaster for vital ecosystems
We should instead incentivize converting marginal cropland back to grass and finishing cattle by continued grazing.
[Link] Move Over Goats. Cattle are the New Fire Fighters in Town
On Californian vineyards and farms, grazing cattle are battling wildfires.
[Link] Tractors Finally Get the Tesla Treatment
Electric vehicle technology has finally arrived in heavy machinery, thanks to battery breakthroughs, a small crop of startups like Monarch and investo…
[Link] Dave Hooker and Dan Petker on achieving cover crop success
On this episode, Dr. Dave Hooker, University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, and Dan Petker, farmer and red clover grower extraordinaire from Port Rowan, …
[Link] Partnership to support sustainable ag effort
The concept of sustainability has been around for some time, but how do you measure it? It’s a question that’s being raised more often these days …
[Link] Better soil health starts with farmer-researcher collaboration
Ask a farmer, a scientist and a conservation professional to define soil health, and you might come up with three rather different answers.
