Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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According to Jim Todd, industrial crop specialist for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), there are lots of reasons why industrial specialty crops can be a good option
Dairy · Livestock · Soil Health · World Ag News
Integrating dairy and arable is proving to be a successful strategy for promoting soil health, reducing reliance on chemical inputs and tackling grassweeds for the new AHDB Monitor Farm in Wiltshire.
Business Innovation · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News
“It has always been about the economic return for the farmer; now we’re trying to pull sustainability into that,” AGCO’s new (and first) director of global sustainability, Louisa Parker-Smith, told me when
Beef · Cover Crops · Livestock · World Ag News
Many Oklahoma ranchers have been reaping the benefits of feed cost and overall animal wellbeing by having cover crops available as forage resources heading into winter. However, cover crops are not going
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Soil Health · Spring Wheat · Winter Wheat · World Ag News
No tillage, optimal nitrogen and irrigation supply levels, and crop rotation are promising strategies for reducing soil carbon emission, and plastic mulching is an important measure to improve crop productivity in arid
Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
About one-quarter of all biodiversity can be found in the soil. But despite being one of the main ‘global reservoirs’ of biodiversity, the soil is not getting the attention it deserves, according
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Legumes · Maize/Corn · Soybeans · Winter Wheat · World Ag News
I’m a 7th generation farmer from Ainsworth, Southeast Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State University in 2017 in Agronomy and Ag System Technology, I went back to the farm. We farm about
Beef · Holistic Management · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News
Feeding soil with the cattle mob doing the work. When you have bankrupted soil, getting organic matter spread on the land is a great way to jump start the healing process.
Beef · Business Innovation · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · World Ag News
For Wade Dooley, farming is all about being dynamic. Dooley, 38, who farms near Albion in Marshall County, Iowa, has made significant changes to his farming operation in the last five years
Soil Health · World Ag News
he rhizophagy cycle is an amazing process recently discovered by James White’s laboratory at the University of New Jersey, by which root tips “ingest” bacteria and absorb nitrogen and phosphorus and other