Sustainability
Sustainable farming practices build resilience into your farming systems. Sustainability practices include crop rotation, reduced tillage, cover crops, water management, and nutrient management.
Measurement, reporting and verification are important to the process of addressing greenhouse gas emissions.
By compensating farmers per pound of nutrient loss reduction, pay-for-performance conservation motivates farmers to find the most cost-effective ways to reduce nutrient losses for their specific fields.
Farmers in the study targeted specific combinations of practices to specific acres depending on the goals that they had.
Walmart and Danone are among the companies announcing public commitments to help farmers transition to regenerative agriculture systems. Here’s what that means for producers, says Lucy Stitzer, Dirt to Dinner founder.
How can livestock production be a part of the solution? Temple Grandin and Frank Mitloehner discussed strides in sustainability and the future at the Online Top Producer Summit and Trust in Food Symposium.
For the past year and a half, AEM has helped spearhead a study to quantify how technology used in agriculture improves environmental stewardship including reduction in carbon, water quality, and more.
From field records to analytics, data empowers conservation and profitability.
Cornell scientists are developing worm-like, soil-swimming robots to drill into the dirt—and unlock a treasure trove of data on root growth and more.
The U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade discussed problems surrounding rural communities in the Midwest and solutions agricultural technology can continue to provide on Feb. 15, 2018.
Here are four ways you can prioritize conservation agriculture in the months ahead to create the possibility for greater profitability, better soil and water, and improved relationships with your landowners.