[Link] Abandoning meat may spell disaster for vital ecosystems
We should instead incentivize converting marginal cropland back to grass and finishing cattle by continued grazing.
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[Link] Move Over Goats. Cattle are the New Fire Fighters in Town
On Californian vineyards and farms, grazing cattle are battling wildfires.
[Link] Tractors Finally Get the Tesla Treatment
Electric vehicle technology has finally arrived in heavy machinery, thanks to battery breakthroughs, a small crop of startups like Monarch and investo…
[Link] Dave Hooker and Dan Petker on achieving cover crop success
On this episode, Dr. Dave Hooker, University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, and Dan Petker, farmer and red clover grower extraordinaire from Port Rowan, …
[Link] Partnership to support sustainable ag effort
The concept of sustainability has been around for some time, but how do you measure it? It’s a question that’s being raised more often these days …
[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…
