Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

What's New From the Shows: This lineup of new products centers around planting cash crops or seeding cover crops.

Seeding 105

Seeding Cash Crop Crop Production 105

Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sweet potato is a cash crop that increased farmers incomes by about 60%. The researchers added sweet potato and a legume, like soybeans or peanuts, to the rotation and at the same time reduced the amount of synthetic fertilisers applied to the field.

Greenhouse 177

Greenhouse Cash Crop Maize Crop 177

CABI

JANUARY 25, 2024

CABI, Kisii County Government and the Micro Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT), has trained farmers on good sustainable agricultural practices to address challenges facing the banana sector which is a key cash crop for smallholder farmers.

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Cash Crop Agriculture Agriculture Crop 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? What are the drawbacks of using cover crops?

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Crop Cash Crop Crop Rotation Fertilizer 127

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. This technique includes broadcasting seed into the existing crop after harvest, followed by mowing the cash crop.

Crop 90

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 90

Organic Farming Research

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To address this need, OFRF has developed a Crop-Livestock Integration series informed by interviews with highly experienced organic producers across the US whose farming operations have benefited from integrated crop and livestock production.

Livestock 52

Livestock Crop Cash Crop Production 52

Agwired

MAY 20, 2024

New Holland – J Cole Sanford, Cash Crop Product Specialist AEM Ag on the Mall - J Cole Sanford, New Holland 4:14 2024 Celebration of Modern Agriculture on the Mall An added benefits is being able to talk with elected officials and regulators. You can hear more about what he has to say in our interview.

Technology 59

Technology Cash Crop Agriculture Agriculture 59

Agwired

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Reaping the Benefits of Cover Crops In this episode, we’ll learn more about the benefits of cover crops and how they can fit into your nutrient management plan. KAS technical agronomists, Lacie Thomas and Evan King, discuss how cover crops can become a cash crop, improve soil health and also act as nitrogen scavengers.

Cash Crop 64

Cash Crop Crop Science Technology 64

ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The non-dormant alfalfa planted as an annual can yield three cuttings as a cash crop and then winter-kill. Researchers have found that the annual alfalfa leaves enough nitrogen in the soil for a barley or corn crop the next year.

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Cash Crop Yield Grain Crop 40

UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

For example, if a fall-winter cash crop was turned over and immediately planted to a spring crop, the summer-winter mix is a good follow up to provide an extended period of rest through the winter. You can also inter-seed winter species to a summer cash crop.

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Seeding Cash Crop Crop Forage 93

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

As part of the restoration project, community members planted cash crops, perennial crops, and high-value crops that offered sources of livelihood. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), focuses on restoring degraded forests, preserving water reservoirs, and promoting sustainable land management practices.

Food 99

Food Cash Crop Agriculture Agriculture 99

Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

It is a remarkable crop that protects like a cover crop and pays like a cash crop. “Camelina represents a key feedstock for the production of renewable fuels and sustainable aviation fuel.

Seeding 52

Seeding Cash Crop Crop Greenhouse 52

ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

When he needed added biomass, he experimented with undersowing Dutch white clover into early harvested crops, mowing the post-harvest crop, and then drilling rye into the clover. But what if you leave the white clover cover crop to continue growing in the second year?

Crop 102

Crop Plowing Farming Farming 102

ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

As I already said, they increase organic matter and improve soil structure, and leguminous covers can add nitrogen to the soil for the next crop without increasing salinity. Cover crops can also help break some pest and disease cycles. But it’s difficult for growers to sacrifice valuable high tunnel space for a non-cash crop.

Compost 52

Compost Fertilizer Crop Cash Crop 52

UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

It took transitioning to no-till, keeping my soils covered (armored), making sure there was a living root in the soil as long as possible, adding a diverse array of cash crops and cover crops, and integrating livestock into my cropland acres for my soils to significantly advance.

Cash Crop 52

Cash Crop Mechanics Processing Crop 52

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Farmers in these groups can typically cover their basic needs with the cash crops they produce, yet prosperity often remains out of reach. These commodities are produced by roughly 120 million small-scale farmers, the majority of them in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Finance 83

Finance Supply Chain Cash Crop Marketing 83

UnderstandingAg

JUNE 20, 2024

However, we have to remember that because of the use of herbicides, ALL of these areas are kept completely void of any vegetation growing in and between the rows, other than the cash crop.

Fertilizer 103

Fertilizer Crop Acre Farmland 103

Caff

APRIL 22, 2021

Since we’re also looking at how cover crops can impact physical and biological soil properties, including soil carbon levels, as well as water infiltration rate, being able to measure the actual “cover” and plant matter from the cover crop is an important piece of information.

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Orchard Ecology Pruning Crop 52

Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

One common method is the traditional or sequential crop rotation, where different crops are grown in a planned sequence over a period of years. This can include a rotation of cash crops , cover crops , and even fallow periods to allow the soil to rest and rejuvenate.

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Crop Rotation Farming Farming Fertilizer 52

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai. That’s why they don’t have to do cash cropping and why they prohibit chemicals in the area,” Trakansuphakon tells Food Tank. They earn income from forest products and beekeeping.

Science 68

Science Food Cultivation Farming 68

Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cash crops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. No-till or reduced-tillage practices help maintain soil integrity, minimize soil disturbance, and prevent carbon loss.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 105

UnderstandingAg

MAY 3, 2024

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. The “right timing” paradox Determining the ‘right timing’ of nitrogen application can be tricky. What we can say for sure is that it is most definitely not 6-9 months before the plant needs it.

Pesticide 81

Pesticide Crop Manure Fertilizer 81

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

While most of what he’s growing are traditional cash crops, the coriander isn’t for commercial sale. The farm’s organic certification means he is unable to use synthetic pesticides, so he instead relies on natural controls for his wheat, lentils, peas, alfalfa, mustard and coriander. It’s for the grasshoppers. Does it work?

Pesticide 98

Pesticide Crop Cash Crop Seeding 98

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The event highlights the harvest of its cash crop, peanuts, which has big potential across the globe by providing a sustainable and nutritious product and fighting malnutrition. The 26th annual Plains Peanut Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23 in Plains, Georgia, home of President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

Manufacturing 59

Manufacturing Supply Chain Seeding Harvest 59

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Because a farm’s acreage largely determines what it grows, cash crops with a high upfront cost often make less sense for small-scale farmers. “To To grow mainstream cash crops like corn and soybeans, you have to have the know-how. You have to have a large enough size to really compete and thrive,” said Mamo.

Grain 52

Grain Farming Farming Biofuel 52

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers. If those large extractive corporations make a profit with their cash crops, it is because they do not pay the real cost of their operations.

Agriculture 100

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 100

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Local dairy also supports the North Coast economy, which has been impacted by price collapses in cannabis, one of the region’s primary cash crops. The diversity of players helps foster innovation, “just like tech and Silicon Valley,” he adds.

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Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 123

Agriculture for Life

JANUARY 12, 2021

More crop-specific soil testing guidelines include: Continuous Row Crops – every two to three years Double cropping systems – every two years Continuous No-Till (Soybeans only) – every three to five years Continuous Corn or Cotton – every two years Hay – every two years Cash crops (vegetables, tobacco) – annually (..)

Fertilizer 52

Fertilizer Production Crop Yield 52

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation. Planting shorter-maturity cash crops is one strategy to allow more time to get cover crops established in the fall and/or let them grow longer in the spring. There are many ways to “fill the calendar” with living roots.

Manure 94

Manure Cash Crop Crop Crop Rotation 94

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Research shows that allowing cover crops to grow to significant heights can dramatically reduce pollution. So, the program pays a farmer $55 an acre to grow their cover crops to at least 12 inches; at 24 inches, they receive an additional $20 per acre.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 119

Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

It is known to be a top choice to grow in grazing areas, for hay, silage, and green manure or cover crops. This is one of the highest quality feeds for livestock as well as a cash crop. It is especially good for pregnant or lactating animals, and work animals. Nutrient Content : High in protein and calcium.

Livestock 96

Livestock Forage Cattle Orchard 96

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A review from earlier this year found that only a third of published studies in which researchers compared fields that were cover-cropped with those that weren’t reported significant gains in soil carbon. And a study published last month illustrated one major reason why farmers may be reluctant to plant cover crops.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Cash Crop 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop. Enslaved people gathered chestnuts to supplement meager meals and to sell. Then, in the late 1800s, horticulturalists imported trees carrying the fungal blight Cryphonectria parasitica to the United States.

biotechnology 125

biotechnology Ecology Technology Food 125

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

EcoField data Inputs Soil type Tillage type Cover crop used Cash crop planted Fertilizer type Nitrogen application rate Irrigation used Crop drying used Pesticide category Machinery used Crop soil moisture Crop residue removal Nitrification inhibitor used Soil organic matter percent How does EcoField data work?

Beverage 52

Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

We are allowing our groundwater (which is our water savings account) to be depleted to grow cash crops for wealthy corporations. But maybe our main concern should be about future food and nutrition security.

Agriculture 72

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Food 72

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. Rolling a field of a cover like cereal rye depends on the timing.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

A great example is Oerth Bio’s work to develop PROTACs that will help crops manage through environmental stressors without losing yield. Another exciting area is the development of crops that are currently seen as niche into high yielding, resilient, high-value cash crops the way NuCicer is doing with the once-humble chickpea.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Agriculture 59