[Link] How Organic Production Can Be a Balancing Act for Vegetable Growers
“We see ourselves as stewards of the piece of land we farm and do our best to preserve it for the future of our business as well as future generatio…
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[Link] Regenerative agriculture: merging farming and natural resource conservation profitably
Despite having lower grain yields, the regenerative system was nearly twice as profitable as the conventional corn farms
[Link] Rotating and regenerative farming
It’s good to see so much of the farm’s land doing well enough to grow veg. Because you’ve got to put back before you can take out. We do that by…
[Link] Microbes protect crops from microbes
After a series of experiments we found that four of our soil samples proved to be disease suppressive.
[Link] Accreditation program established for beef produced on farms which are improving ecological values
A new accreditation program is able to prove that in some farming systems meat production is actually able to improve ecological outcomes for the plan…
[Link] Exploring Suitable Biochar Application Rates with Compost to Improve Upland Field Environment
Appropriate application of biochar with compost has the concomitant advantages of enriching soil quality for long-term sustainable agriculture and red…
[Link] Lowdown on cover crop mixes
There are advantages and a few drawbacks with diverse mixes of cover crops.
[Link] Soil Erosion 101
The loss of topsoil to wind, rain, and other forces is a natural process, but when intensified by human activity, it can have negative environmental, …
[Link] Organic food sales jump nearly 13% to record high in 2020
U.S. organic product sales climbed 12.4% in 2020, breaking the $60 billion mark for the first time and more than doubling the previous year’s growth…
[Link] Got Weeds? Perhaps Pigs Can Help
Long before chemical herbicides were commonplace, some farmers let pigs loose in fallow fields, allowing them to dig up the roots of weeds and fertili…
