[Link] Beyond Sustainability: The Regenerative Business – Real Leaders
The food giant Danone is leading triple regeneration with its “One Planet. One Health” initiative. Danone North America is enabling its US farming…
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[Link] Too Much Potassium Can Sometimes Ding Corn, Soybean Yields
New research suggests heavy applications of potassium can sometimes hurt corn and soybean yields.
[Link] Raising the Bar: Going Beyond No-Till with Cover Crops
Conservation ag consultants Hans Kok and Dan Towery share cover crop strategies that will help no-tillers sequester more nutrients and build even more…
[Link] 5 Ways to Celebrate World Soil Day
Adopting practices such as cover crops and reduced tillage can improve the health of farmers’ soil, their bottom line, and ultimately the planet. Wh…
[Link] Assimilation of coupled microwave/thermal infrared soil moisture profiles into a crop model for robust maize yield estimates over Southeast United States
The goal of this study was to determine if assimilation of satellite-driven SM profiles can improve crop model yield estimations in a commonly used cr…
[Link] Protecting Soil, Protecting People
Just a handful of soil contains the hundreds of thousands of microbes, bacteria and fungi that are the foundation of our ecosystems and food systems a…
[Link] Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
There is a growing crisis beneath our feet. Scientists, soil specialists and policy-makers around the world are sounding the alarm about degrading soi…
[Link] Celebrate the soil on World Soil Day
#WorldSoilDay focuses on importance of healthy soil to healthy lives.
[Link] Shade and energy: solar panels used as shades in grazing pasture
Brad Heins, Extension organic dairy specialist, and his team that included graduate student Kirsten Sharpe, installed a solar powered system at the We…
[Link] Organic Kale and Cereal Rye Grain Production Following a Sunn Hemp Cover Crop
four-year field experiment was initiated in 2011 at the EV. Smith Research Station, in central Alabama, to determine the effect of sunn hemp terminat…