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Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Oats · Soil Health · World Ag News
With a nod toward resource sustainability and growing consumer demand, some farmers find that milling oats have a place in their crop rotations.
Beans · Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Holistic Management · Legumes · Nutrition Management · Oats · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Vegetables · Weed Management · World Ag News
Growing a simultaneous crop of beans and oats enabled one Cambridgeshire grower to completely eliminate fertiliser, fungicide and herbicide applications as well as increase land use efficiency.
Beef · Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Rye · Sheep · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Winter Wheat · World Ag News
“We were struggling to make ends meet conventionally and that was one of the reasons that we converted to organic,” he said.
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.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Oats · Rye · World Ag News
Using hybrid rye or another small grain such as oats can provide a different revenue stream, improve soil quality, reduce erosion and water quality issues.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Kernza · World Ag News
Kernza is a perennial crop that’s essentially a cousin of wheat, but its roots store carbon in the ground to help prevent soil erosion and runoff.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Disease Management · Forage Peas · Holistic Management · Mustard · Oats · Spring Lentils · World Ag News
Overall, the study shows benefits to intercropping, but that the impacts on crop diseases were varied between years, among pathogens, and mixture compositions.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · World Ag News
Farming in eastern Wyoming is not for the faint of heart. The semiarid landscape receives unpredictable weather and is considered an unforgiving environment for agriculture.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Disease Management · Insect Management · World Ag News
Nick Dymond’s unique cropping approach of not using fungicides or insecticides and a focus on crop nutrition has seen yields of his Extase winter wheat peak at 10t/ha.
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Clover · Cover Crops · Legumes · World Ag News
Growing a permanent clover understory beneath cash crops known as a “living mulch” could provide an effective way to control weeds, fix nitrogen and boost farm productivity.