Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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Disease Management · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
While laboratory soil and tissue tests are good and necessary tools, we often don’t receive the results for several days, or even up to two weeks in some cases. On a growing
Broad Acre Crops · Cotton · Disease Management · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Disease Management · World Ag News
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa (L.) Pomel) is a parasitic plant, which causes severe yield losses in major crops worldwide. Because of its broad host range, including numerous non-parasitic weed species, the persistence
Apples · Disease Management · Fruit · Fruit and Nuts · Pears · World Ag News
The phase-out of antibiotic use in organic orchards has been anticipated by growers and researchers for quite some time, and researchers throughout the country have been investigating organic options to provide growers
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Disease Management · Weed Management · World Ag News
Seeking to reduce his reliance on herbicide applications, Beaver Dam, Wis., strip-tiller Ryan Nell explains his motivation for seeding cereal rye as a cover crop into silage corn ahead of soybeans to
Disease Management · Holistic Management · Insect Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Weed Management · World Ag News
Fruit farmer James Smith says chemical-free regenerative farming methods are the way ahead.
Disease Management · Insect Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Weed Management · World Ag News
Pesticides are causing widespread damage to the tiny creatures that keep soils healthy and underpin all life on land, according to the first comprehensive review of the issue.
Cover Crops · Disease Management · World Ag News
This week’s podcast, sponsored by Bio Till Cover Crops, features Bob Larkin, a plant pathologist with USDA ARS based in Maine. Larkin will discuss which soilborne diseases are impacted by cover crops,
Disease Management · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Vegetables · World Ag News
Bill Kerr, a vegetable specialist and breeder of a range of vegetables, has been no-tilling for 18 years and says he’s seen a range of benefits.
Broad Acre Crops · Chickpeas · Disease Management · Dryland Crops · Flax · Holistic Management · Pulse Crops · World Ag News
“Intercropping in general interests me because it just makes sense. A lot of diseases can really get going in monocropped agricultural systems — where if the host is suitable, and the environment