[Link] Why Biodiversity Matters
In continuation of our series on the four basic principles of soil health, this week's video is all about biodiversity in the soil.
[Link] Jeepers Cats That’s Some Healthy Soil!
the family, which farms in southeastern Minnesota’s Houston County, has used hard work and attention to the soil to turn a massive problem into soi…
[Link] Advice on setting up a dairy grazing rotation
Rotational grazing involves dividing a field into smaller paddocks and rotating livestock around these paddocks. It can not only improve weight gains …
[Link] Diversified crop rotations and higher premium crops improve profitability.
Organic crop production has been shifting to the use of legume green manure, diversified crop rotations and reduced tillage, rather than relying on su…
[Link] Cattle are part of agriculture’s sustainability story
With appropriate regenerative crop and grazing management, ruminants not only reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions but increase soil carbon sequest…
[Link] Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app
“I hardly harvested enough before I started practicing dryland agroforestry. Now I get surplus, value and more,” says the father of four, adding t…
[Link] ‘It’s a miracle crop’: the pioneers pushing the powers of seaweed
Describing kelp as the “ocean’s first regenerative crop”, Barrett believes that by localizing seaweed production in New York he can revive the s…
[Link] Disease pressure in intercrops grown under organic management
Overall, the study shows benefits to intercropping, but that the impacts on crop diseases were varied between years, among pathogens, and mixture comp…
[Link] New app helps ranchers track changes in grass production
U.S. rangelands produce premium beef, wool and dairy. And it’s the plants that feed these livestock that are the foundation for profitable agricultu…
[Link] Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon
Farming in eastern Wyoming is not for the faint of heart. The semiarid landscape receives unpredictable weather and is considered an unforgiving envir…