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Beef · Dairy · Holistic Management · Livestock · World Ag News
Producing milk sustainably with grazed grass and forage is central to the farming system at a Carmarthenshire dairy farm.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Embracing regenerative farming practices and giving the health of the soil priority shape the heart of his advice to producers. Adopting no-till and planting cover crops are core practices he suggests.
Cover Crops · Dairy · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Grazing livestock on cover crops has three big benefits: cost savings, time-saving and soil health improvements.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Jay Fuhrer, a soil health specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, offers five soil health principles to improve the health of a farm’s soil and increase soil aggregates.
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Weed Management · World Ag News
“Conventional farmers use chemicals for weed control, and organic farmers use tillage,” he said. “And if we can use some of these practices, we can eliminate the need for both the chemicals
Cover Crops · Disease Management · Holistic Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Soil Health · World Ag News
While cover crops ultimately improve the yields of cash crops through improved soil health, new research suggests that they might also protect them from disease.
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.
Holistic Management · World Ag News
The first time Glover Triplett took his wife to see the new no-till research plots in 1962, the corn was about a foot tall, and the ground was littered with dead weeds
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Livestock · Sheep · Soil Health · World Ag News
A passion for conservation and a drive to bolster profits through diversification have put CLA president Mark Tufnell’s farm in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on a solid footing.
Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News
Farmers who have used a three- or four-crop rotation system for more than 10 years are most likely to reap the benefits of improved soil health and higher yields, according to a