Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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Business Innovation · Holistic Management · World Ag News
Cutting-edge agricultural technology has advanced in recent years, introducing innovations from self-driving tractors and laser scarecrows to robotic bees that aid in pollination. What could technologists learn from alternative agricultural movements, such
Dairy · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
Some farming techniques may reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Holistic Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
WHILE RESEARCH on soil microbial health has mainly been done in a lab, greenhouse or in short-term field experiments, University of Illinois crop scientists have captured valuable crop rotation and tillage data
World Ag News
Climate change has brought a host of challenges to Prairie Road Organic Seed, a family business comprising 480 acres close to the South Dakota border.
World Ag News
Warming in the US Midwest is believed to increase the water needed to grow crops. This study finds that, on the contrary, due to rising rainfall and minimum temperature, and decreasing maximum
Holistic Management · Soil Biology · World Ag News
A less intensive approach to cultivation could help farmers protect their greatest asset – the soil.
Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
IT’S BECOME widely understood that a single teaspoon of soil contains thousands of different species of microbes, and more than 1 billion individuals.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
Salute Soil Health: Slideshow depicts what long-term no-till and cover crops can accomplish.
Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Legumes · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · Soybeans · World Ag News
With the short-season available for growing cover crops after corn harvest, interest in interseeding cover crops into corn and soybean crops has increased in recent years.
Livestock · World Ag News
With the prospect of water reductions, we need to evaluate the resiliency of the forage species and varieties in our pastures. Some grasses are more drought tolerant than others.