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Why Take Steps to Improve Soil Organic Matter?

Building soil organic matter and improving soil health is a long-term investment and requires consistent practices like having well-timed and purposeful tillage, planting cover crops and implementing crop rotation and diversity.
Taking steps to build soil organic matter can help to maintain soil health and ensure sustainable farming practices, according to North Dakota State University Extension soil and soil health experts.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 22, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.
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Indigo Ag, Truterra Launch Strategic Collaboration to Expand Sustainability Solutions

The two companies said they will work toward creating a common framework for high-integrity agriculture sustainability programs that effectively responds to the demands of downstream buyers within and beyond the ag value chain by ensuring greater consistency and standardization of ag sustainability outcomes and delivering a broader spectrum of solutions.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 15, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.
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McDonald's & Syngenta Team Up to Create More Sustainable Hamburger

The fast-food giant and meat supplier Lopez Foods will pay farmers to use Syngenta’s Enogen corn to drive feed efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The fast-food giant and meat supplier Lopez Foods will pay farmers to use Syngenta’s Enogen corn to drive feed efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal – November 2024

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

In this edition:

  • Further Adoption of Conservation Tillage Can Increase Maize Yields in the Western U.S. Corn Belt
  • A New Theory for Soil Health
  • Weed Communities after Decades of Mineral Fertilization and Tillage Treatments in a Corn–Soybean Rotation
  • Changes in Soil Microbial Parameters after Herbicide Application in Soils under Conventional Tillage and Non-Tillage

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The National No-Tillage Conference returns January 12-15, 2027! Build and refine your no-till system with dozens of new ideas and connections at the 35th Annual National No-Tillage Conference in Indianapolis, Jan. 12-15, 2027. Experience an energizing 4-day agenda featuring inspiring general session speakers, expert-led No-Till Classrooms and collaborative No-Till Roundtables. Plus, Certified Crop Adviser credits will be offered.

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