Project’s goal to improve soil sustainability through incentives in farm lending and crop insurance
America’s farmers rely on a host of practices such as cover cropping and crop rotation to maintain soil health, grow more productive crops and...
Along their journey, Aisha and Lucas met many regenerative farmers. But what prompted those farmers to adopt the practice?
In 2020, Paul and Janine Raabe started the community farm Hof Lebensberg in the Northern Palatinate, Germany after concluding that the...
by Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Although about 20% of Illinois cropping systems are planted to continuous corn, it's nearly impossible to find fields planted this way for decades at a time. Yet long-term experiments like one at the...
by Kym Pokorny, Oregon State University
When you walk about your yard on a wet day, do your shoes stick in the mud? Could you make ceramic pots out of the soil in your garden? If the answers are yes to...
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While agricultural production around the world struggles with declining soil health, Australian researchers are investigating production of a sustainable organic nitrogen fertiliser made from aquatic cyanobacterial biomass – ideally suited for badly degraded areas reliant on chemical fertilisers.
“Many...
December 6, 2021 - Adityarup "Rup" Chakravorty
Cassava is a vital source of calories for close to a billion people across the world. The plant is a woody, perennial shrub with edible roots. Cassava roots are rich in carbohydrates, potassium,...
When I was a young professor at Berkeley, my colleagues and I would frequently run into Jean Jenny, the wife of Hans Jenny, at various events on campus. Jean, a formidable force of nature with a deep interest in...
GRAEME SAIT
7 JUL 2021 • 9 MIN READ
Boron is a mineral that we find lacking in so many soil and leaf tests around the world. It often involves a simple, inexpensive correction, and yet it is so often neglected. You...