Independent agricultural news briefs, selected and explained by the KindHarvest Team.
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Holistic Management · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News
With appropriate regenerative crop and grazing management, ruminants not only reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions but increase soil carbon sequestration and help regenerate environmental quality.
Business Innovation · Holistic Management · World Ag News
“I hardly harvested enough before I started practicing dryland agroforestry. Now I get surplus, value and more,” says the father of four, adding that he can harvest up to six 90-kilogram (200-pound)
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.
Dairy · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Health · World Ag News
More irrigation, drought-tolerant crop species and new management practices are all being considered as Prairie farmers continue to grapple with the devastating impacts of this year’s drought
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Weed Management · World Ag News
Farmers using no-till production — in which soil never or rarely is plowed or disturbed — can reduce herbicide use and still maintain crop yields by implementing integrated weed-management methods, according to
Business Innovation · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Health · World Ag News
New research shows that harvesting seeds from small plots of perennial wildflowers not only can provide producers with a new income source, but also improve soil health and, thereby, increase the sustainability
Fruit · Fruit and Nuts · Holistic Management · Insect Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Weed Management · Wine Grapes · World Ag News
“Instead of traditional orchard-floor management methods, why not choose to plant the floor with biological plant mixes that eliminate the need for weed control, do not compete as aggressively for resources, host
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
While low nitrate concentrations in groundwater can occur naturally, the major source of groundwater nitrate in agriculturally dominated areas is nitrogen fertilizer when applied in excess amounts.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · World Ag News
In 2012, fourth-generation farmer Sam Sluss watched as, yet again, a field alongside a creek was flooded out, taking some topsoil with it. He had a friend no-till rye along that area
Dairy · Holistic Management · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · World Ag News
Using cattle as a tool, Sam Vincent has improved pasture diversity and soil health and resilience.