Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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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.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
A North Carolina family farm used high tunnels, cover crops and longer production windows to turn weather risk into a more reliable tomato enterprise.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
Two preliminary Upper Midwest studies measured wind-blown sediment and put a dollar value on some of the nutrients leaving fields.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
An Earth Day gallery shows conservation as routine farm management: buffers, prairie strips, cover crops, grazing and the reuse of food by-products.
Holistic Management · Rye · World Ag News
A two-year University of Alberta experiment found a perennial rye plot took up substantial carbon dioxide without using more water than annual rye, while major agronomic questions remain.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
A conservation farmer’s cover-crop experience highlights the value of starting at a manageable scale, choosing species for a job and learning from each season.
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
Balcaskie Estate’s organic conversion replaced a high-input arable model with pasture, diverse leys, grazing and shorter food chains to improve the farm’s economics and ecology.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Insect Management · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
A three-year Penn State field study found cover crops supported natural pest control more effectively than preventive insecticides, without sacrificing crop yield.
Beef · Cover Crops · Livestock · World Ag News
Cover crops can extend grazing and reduce winter feed costs, but the best mix depends on climate, timing and a clearly defined forage goal.
Cover Crops · Soil Health · World Ag News
Soil-health programs are expanding rapidly across US agriculture. The opportunity for farmers is real, but each offer needs to be tested against the farm’s own goals and obligations.