Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
Browse news topics
Cover Crops · Soil Health · World Ag News
Tissue testing cover crops during planting season can help no-tillers gauge how much biomass and nitrogen covers are contributing to cash crops and the soil.
Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
“We dedicated ourselves to doing what’s best for our soils and our crops 41 years ago,” Kavazanjian says. “All of our conservation and agronomic efforts to build healthier soils continue to pay
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of protozoa and nematode
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
The perennial wheat Kernza was grown just west of Brainerd on a few acres immediately surrounding wells within corn and soybean fields. Over the past three years, it cut nitrate contamination from
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Extensive literature and hundreds of long-term field experiments across the globe document the capability of regenerative farming practices to increase soil carbon through practices such as cover crops, tillage reduction, and perennials.
Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Modeling the future consequences of climate change requires a huge number of calculations based on a vast amount of factors, including how well microbes in soil might hold onto carbon – something
Beef · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
“If you take our corn last year, we didn’t use any chemical fertilizers, so our fertilizer bill is zero,” he said. “In fact, if you are using diverse rotations and intentionally building
Beef · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Health · Weed Management · World Ag News
Beef cattle grazing more help than harm for endangered plants and animals
Holistic Management · Insect Management · Plant Health and Pest Resistance · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
Fifty-seven billion dollars.That’s the annual monetary value a 2006 economic study published in BioScience attributed to just four services performed by wild insects in the United States — pest control, pollination, dung
World Ag News
90-day progress report details ag industry’s ability to offer solutions in climate crisis.