Kim Bremmer
Topics: Soil Health, Dairy, Cover Crops, Sustainability,
We continue to learn more about soil health each year. We know that the organic matter in soil provides the main reservoir of nutrients that feed plants. We know the amount of organic matter affects soil's water holding capacity and water availability to plants. And we know that increasing soil organic matter from 1 to 3 percent can reduce erosion 20+%. But how realistic are your yearly goals on building organic matter? It's difficult to be patient, but the data supports the use of no-til, cover crops AND using manure over time. Slow and steady is still great progress!
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Soil Health, Beef Cattle,
Brain chow. Dig in and ruminate!
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Agriculture Global, Ag Podcast US, Beekeeping, Ag United Kingdom, Ag Europe, Ag Asia / Pacific,
Honey bees pollinate roughly only 50% of the worlds crops. Its the native pollinators we have little clue about.
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Agriculture Global, World Hunger,
The "long-rains" are slow in coming to eastern Africa this year, causing great concern across multiple countries.
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Beekeeping,
I had to remove some wax from a colony thats going gangbusters! This was just two days worth.
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Beekeeping,
This video is of a newly emerged queen bee “piping”. Its a battle cry for the current queen to come fight to the death for the right to be the only queen.
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog,
"Given the impact and the spread of the disease, China's Ministry of Agriculture recently estimated that up to 80% of hog producers have no immediate plans to re-stock their herds. According to government estimates, the Chinese breeding herd of sows has been reduced somewhere in the range of 8 million head. The total U.S. sow herd is 6.4 million head."
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Matthew Kroger
Topics: Soil Health, Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Food/Nutrition, Ag United Kingdom, Ag Europe,
Humanity really needs to change its perspective on what we teach and how we teach it. While I am just as annoyed my these vampire flies as the next person I find solace in the fact that these little bastards are food for many other critters much higher up on the food chain and we so desperately need...Read More
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Vertical Farming, Urban Farming,
In Japan, "Images of toddlers gleefully biting into a fistful of LED-supported spinach are littered across company advertising, and “safe eating” (which is a few standard deviations beyond the concept of organic-only “clean eating”) has become rhetorical dogma."
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Kim Bremmer
Topics: Soil Health, Gardening, Urban Farming,
Here is a great piece from the Soil Science Society of America talking nitrogen- one of the most crucial nutrients required for plant growth. Soil science is fascinating to me - and we are always learning! Don't get caught in habits and routines of fertilizer application, whether in a field, plot or garden. Are you doing all you can to prevent nitrogen losses for plant and environmental health?
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