[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…
[Link] Peecycling for Pasture Health
Diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants and recycling the nutrient-rich liquid to make crop fertilizer would result in multipl…
[Link] Promising Alternatives To Antibiotic Fire Blight Control
The phase-out of antibiotic use in organic orchards has been anticipated by growers and researchers for quite some time, and researchers throughout th…
[Link] Field Work: 5 Steps to Minimize Risk As You Adopt Regenerative Practices
Nothing grinds my gears worse than a solution coming from Silicon Valley, from a team that has never been to Iowa, Illinois or Indiana and has no clue…
[Link] Observing eco farmers could guide sustainable information technology innovation
Cutting-edge agricultural technology has advanced in recent years, introducing innovations from self-driving tractors and laser scarecrows to robotic …
[Link] Ohio dairy farmer keeps farm natural with regenerative farming
Some farming techniques may reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
[Link] Soil Microbes Prefer Crop Variety
WHILE RESEARCH on soil microbial health has mainly been done in a lab, greenhouse or in short-term field experiments, University of Illinois crop scie…
[Link] There Is No Normal Anymore
Climate change has brought a host of challenges to Prairie Road Organic Seed, a family business comprising 480 acres close to the South Dakota border.