[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.
[Link] Using Cover Crops to Reduce Nitrate Leaching in Nebraska Wellhead
While low nitrate concentrations in groundwater can occur naturally, the major source of groundwater nitrate in agriculturally dominated areas is nitr…
[Link] Scientists take step to improve crops’ photosynthesis, yields
A new study describes a significant step toward improving photosynthesis and increasing yields by putting elements from cyanobacteria into crop plants…
[Link] Introducing crops that benefit the land in the Upper Midwest
t local farmers have introduced a perennial grain known as kernza, which performs like grass, benefitting the landscape by trapping water, retaining c…
[Link] Sluss family farms with eye on conservation
In 2012, fourth-generation farmer Sam Sluss watched as, yet again, a field alongside a creek was flooded out, taking some topsoil with it. He had a f…
[Link] Fight resistance; learn from past mistakes
A Washington County grower featured on the July Wallaces Farmer cover and feature story, has managed to reduce his costs per acre on both organic and …
[Link] How one dairy farm moved to a regenerative grazing system
Using cattle as a tool, Sam Vincent has improved pasture diversity and soil health and resilience.
[Link] Updated Building Soils for Better Crops Focuses on Soil Health Fundamentals
Now more than ever, it is abundantly clear that healthy soils play an essential role in productive agricultural systems.
[Link] Rodale’s 40-year organic experiment
Since 1981, the leaders of Rodale Institute have put organic and conventional field crop systems to the test in a side-by-side experiment to see what …
[Link] Potatoes After Cover Crops
I planted potatoes into the residue of 5 cover crop mixes in Shafter (Kern County). Here are the mixes I planted: