[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 …
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[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:
[Link] Nature Is Calling – The Business Case for Resilience
Mark is a pioneer in regenerative agriculture. With holistic management, he is restoring the native grasslands and healthy soils that my family and ou…
[Link] A Silvo Lining
Pastures with trees in them sequester more carbon than those without, a study found.
[Link] Well nodulated soybeans shouldn’t need added nitrogen
The N application was unprofitable in seven of nine locations (using then current prices). Further, there was no relationship between soybean yield po…
[Link] Solar on stilts for cattle grazing
Amid calls for large solar arrays to be banned on prime agricultural land, systems are being built that allow cattle and even tractors underneath the …
[Link] Hybrid Rye is Helping Farmers Fight ‘Superweeds’ Without Herbicide
So, the fact that the Frantzens and other farmers like them have had success fighting off a mega-weed without herbicides could have larger ramificatio…
