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The Crucial Connection: Human Wellbeing Can Only Happen With Healthy Soils
By Jessie Emerson There is a direct relationship between minerals in the soil and minerals in the body. There is a direct connection between nutrition and optimal health. Nutrition is the foundation...
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Why You Should Spend More Time Thinking About Soil Reports
Sponsored by Ferticell® Sponsored Agricultural producers in 2022 will face new, unwelcome changes to how they evaluate programs and fertilizers due to supply and price concerns across the board. Many...
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Understanding Basic Soil Chemistry: Why We Care so Much About Cation Exchange...
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Don Schriefer’s Agriculture in Transition, which is just one of many classic texts on soil health in the Acres U.S.A. library. Schriefer was an educator...
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What Is Healthy Soil, and How Can Terra Preta Contribute to It?
By Caroline Pfützner This is an excerpt from the book The Modern Grower’s Guide to Terra Preta by Caroline Pfützner, published by Acres U.S.A. This excerpt is reprinted with permission from the...
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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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Stifling Disease: Phytophthora in Disease-Suppressive Soils
Even the Scourge that Caused the Irish Potato Famine Can Be Stifled — through Microbiology and Mineral Nutrition By Nathan Harman In Greek, phytón means “plant” and phthorá means “destruction.”...
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Improving Vegetable Production
Updating the Roxbury Farm Vegetable Crop and Harvest Manuals for Wider Adoption By Jean-Paul Courtens Let me give a brief introduction before I get into the meat of this article. I am a native of the...
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The Business Case for Agroforestry
How to help growers transition acreage to agroforestry By Harry Greene How can we fund regenerative agroforestry? Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees and farming. It produces on-farm...
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Even More Roles for Microbes
Roles include root hair formation, seedling growth and nitrogen fixation By Dr. James White Editor’s note: This article from the June 2022 Issue of the AcresUSA magazine is an edited version of part of...
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The Eternal Earthworm
By Jerry Brunetti The following is an excerpt from the book, The Farm as Ecosystem, and is reprinted with permission from the publisher. I use the word eternal to describe the earthworm because of the...
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