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15 Companion Plants You Should Grow With Onions—and 6 You Shouldn't
Martha Stewart Living via Yahoo News· 7 days agocover crop. "Cover crops keep more moisture in the soil," says Linda Langelo, horticulture...
10 Best Sweet Potato Companion Plants for Larger Harvests
Better Homes & Gardens via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoStudies have found that using clover cover crops as part of your crop rotation cycle can actually...
Commentary: The price for me, but not for thee?
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 20 minutes agoHe also argues, persuasively, that price discrimination can be a net benefit to the general welfare. He uses an extended example of a burger joint to illustrate the point.
Senate Farm Bill Proposal's Key Crop Insurance Provisions
Natural Resources Defense Council· 3 days agoThis blog delves into these proposals, focusing on a critical component given its implications on...
U.S. Secretary of Ag highlights progress and threats to farming during Columbus trip
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 days agoGeorgia has lost thousands of farmers in recent years. The nation’s agriculture head talked about...
Opinion: Conservation is needed to save Iowa’s soil
The Gazette· 5 days agoThe greatest asset in Iowa is the people; the next is the soil. Both the positive and negative fruits of Iowa farmers’ labor go beyond individual fields,...
When to Plant Pumpkins—Plus Tips on Ensuring a Successful Crop
Martha Stewart Living via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOverwintering Pumpkin Plants Harvest pumpkins before the first frost—after that, the plants don't...
Giant Heaps of Plastic Are Helping Vegetables Grow
The Atlantic· 7 days agoRolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine that my father and I cordially call the plastic layer. From the back of a tractor, it...
Funds available to help cover organic certification costs
The Lewiston Sun Journal· 3 days agoThrough the Organic Certification Cost Share Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will cover up to 75% of organic certification costs at a maximum ...
To save their soil, Kansas tribe shifts to regenerative agriculture – and transforms their farms
San Francisco Chronicle· 7 days agoWhen one of the elders in the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska asked if he could keep bees on the...
