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Beef · Business Innovation · Holistic Management · Livestock · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
Grazing in an environmentally sensitive way is not new for Farmers Weekly’s 2020 Beef Farmer of the Year, James Waight, who farms 4,400ha (10,868 acres) of some of the highest conservation-status grassland
World Ag News
Edge-of-field practices like saturated buffers, constructed wetlands and bioreactors can improve water quality by treating agricultural drainage flowing through tile lines.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · World Ag News
Everyone makes a big deal out of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), but to me, carbon is the key to a profitable and sustainable farm.
Cover Crops · Soil Health · World Ag News
Change can be difficult, especially if you’re bull-headed. Just ask Dale Macheel, who says he tends to be stubborn, just like most farmers. But it can also be fun, he says, a
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
Currently, the focus is on soil research. Specifically, using regenerative practices to restore degraded soils and increase soil carbon. Examples include various applications of multispecies cover crops, effects of pesticides on soil
Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists have embarked on a large-scale soil mapping initiative aimed at unearthing new knowledge about microbial life, chemistry and processes in the ground beneath farmers’ fields.
Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
The reduction in chemical N fertilization levels, substitution of chemical fertilizer by organic manure, and the use of bio-fertilizer and bio-organic fertilizer, is of decisive importance.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Weed Management · World Ag News
Reducing tillage—which often relies on herbicides—has long been out of reach on organic farms. Now, a group of veteran growers are undertaking a soil health experiment with implications for California and beyond.
Beef · Holistic Management · Livestock · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Gloucestershire farmer Ian Boyd has turned his intensively farmed arable land into wildflower meadows and introduced herbal leys into the cropping rotation. This has enabled him to tap into environmental schemes and
Disease Management · Holistic Management · Insect Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Weed Management · World Ag News
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