Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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Cover Crops · Dairy · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Grazing livestock on cover crops has three big benefits: cost savings, time-saving and soil health improvements.
Livestock · Soil Health · World Ag News
Management in 2021 and temperatures this spring are going to influence the rates our grasses grow, and cooler temperatures can bring delays with grass readiness.
World Ag News
Surround yourself with peers and advisors whose opinions you actually care about, and making changes in life or on a farm becomes much easier.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Jay Fuhrer, a soil health specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, offers five soil health principles to improve the health of a farm’s soil and increase soil aggregates.
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Weed Management · World Ag News
“Conventional farmers use chemicals for weed control, and organic farmers use tillage,” he said. “And if we can use some of these practices, we can eliminate the need for both the chemicals
Cover Crops · Disease Management · Holistic Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Soil Health · World Ag News
While cover crops ultimately improve the yields of cash crops through improved soil health, new research suggests that they might also protect them from disease.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Holistic Management · Maize/Corn · Soybeans · Winter Wheat · World Ag News
The non-GMO market comes with a premium price, they said, one worth growing for and economically sustainable for the Hitchcocks when corn prices tanked over the last five to six years.
Business Innovation · World Ag News
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed an intelligent robot designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning and pruning peach trees, which could result in significant cost savings for peach growers
Holistic Management · World Ag News
The first time Glover Triplett took his wife to see the new no-till research plots in 1962, the corn was about a foot tall, and the ground was littered with dead weeds
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · Sheep · Soil Health · World Ag News
A passion for conservation and a drive to bolster profits through diversification have put CLA president Mark Tufnell’s farm in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on a solid footing.