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Cover Crops Mean Big Business
There’s a new opening for rural America to create jobs and make farming more future-friendly, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. The Growing Business of Cover Crops...
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Integrating Sheep into Organic Production
Using domestic sheep rather than traditional farming equipment to manage fallow and terminate cover crops may enable farmers who grow organic crops to save money, reduce tillage, manage weeds and...
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Cover Crops in Grazing Systems
Noble Foundation researchers are studying how cover crops could be part of a year-round grazing system that provides economic and environmental benefits to farmers and ranchers. Noble Foundation...
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Cover Crops on the Farm
Cover crops are increasingly being used by farmers across the country to suppress weeds, conserve soil, protect water quality and control pests and diseases. The fourth annual SARE/CTIC Cover Crop...
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Soil Conservation Yields Economic Gains
Soil conservation practices such as growing cover crops and going no-till can result in an economic return of over $100 per acre, according to a set of case studies jointly released by the National...
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Soil Restoration: 5 Core Principles
Soil restoration is the process of improving the structure, microbial life, nutrient density, and overall carbon levels of soil. Many human endeavors – conventional farming chief among them – have...
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Cover Crops Don’t Deplete Moisture
Among the myriad of benefits cover crops provide to a row crop or vegetable operation, Clemson University researchers have found another one: Cover crops do not deplete water stored in the soil...
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Sunn Hemp: Soil-Building Superhero with Forage Potential
Sunn hemp, a tropical plant primarily grown as a cover crop or green manure, has increased dramatically in popularity over the last decade. Originally from India, it’s easy to understand what makes it...
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True Soil Health: Create the Capacity to Function Without Intervention
My philosophy is that whatever you do on your farm should improve soil health. But how do you know what that is? The USDA defines soil health as, “The continued capacity of soil to function as a vital...
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Book of the Week: Organic No-Till Farming
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from an Acres U.S.A. book, Organic No-Till Farming, written by Jeff Moyer. Copyright 2011, softcover, 204 pages. Normal Price: $28.00. From Chapter 1: No-Till Basics...
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Tropical Agriculture Conference Topics Range from Greenhouse Management to...
BELMOPAN, Belize — Perhaps it was better when the power went out. The lack of microphones forced Ronnie Cummins with Regeneration International to start Wednesday’s Tropical Agricultural Conference...
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Choosing Seeds for Your Forage
The percentage of grass in legume-grass mixtures should generally be less than 25 – 40%, up to 50% in pastures, because too much grass will lower the protein content of the hay and may require more...
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Ground Covers and Weed Management for Regenerative Farming and Ranching
By André Leu This excerpt is from André Leu’s book Growing Life: Regenerating Farming and Ranching, and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. A neighbor once asked me, “When are you going...
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Understanding Relay Cropping
By Loran Steinlage Editors note: This is an article printed in the October 2022 Issue of the AcresUSA magazine. Relay cropping is a variation of companion cropping I stumbled upon back in about 2012...
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Cover Crops
by Phil Nauta The following is an excerpt from the book, Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners, and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. Cover crops are...
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Planting Green
Innovation merely requires a change of mindset By Victor Shelton Editors note: This is an article printed in the October 2023 Issue of the AcresUSA magazine. . May 12 — Mr. G’s planter setup...
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Management Intensive Agronomy
Oklahoma farmer Jimmy Emmons discusses using cover crops for drought resilience, how to influence policy changes, and why managing regenerative systems requires more, and better, education. Editor’s...
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