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Muddling Through.
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Growing for Flavor — and Health members.acresusa.com/growing-for-fl…

Our government is more concerned with protecting businesses than people.
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Disease is disease. Pest and disease pressure on our crops is a sign that the plant is not fit for human consumption!

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Consumers of the industrial food system pay their food bill 3 times:

1st at the checkout

2nd in taxes that subsidize commodity crop production

3rd in medical costs related to a diet of ultra-processed foods and exposure to agricultural toxins

Grower from SC sent me this 20 days apart. 37.5% coverage of the landscape will expand to 70- 80% in a few weeks in the shape of phi.

🫛 going in next month

Group IV soybeans going in after the harvest of crops #1, #2

Wheat should act as strip weed control, 💧 mngmt, and…

Taylor Henry announces his new ownership of Acres U.S.A., a leading institution in ecological agriculture for more than fifty years. Henry, a practitioner and advocate of ecological farming, aims to carry forward the vision of Acres U.S.A.'s founder, Charles Walters, emphasizing…

Taylor Henry announces his new ownership of Acres U.S.A., a leading institution in ecological agriculture for more than fifty years. Henry, a practitioner and advocate of ecological farming, aims to carry forward the vision of Acres U.S.A.'s founder, Charles Walters, emphasizing…

I recorded a special episode of the podcast to describe our vision for Integrity Grown verification. Integrity Grown will focus on verifying outcomes for harvest quality, freedom from toxins, and regeneration of soil health. regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/episodes/episo…

Listen to Megan Neubauer of Pure Land Farm -- author of Pick-Your-Own Farming -- on the Carrot Cashflow podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/far…

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Acres U.S.A. As an agronomist, what are your main pain points in farmer data 📈 management (=combining data sources, interpretation, and recommendation)? #FarmerProtests #voicesofagronomist #SoilHealth Acres U.S.A.

Join us and the Organic Farmers Association for a FREE webinar on Strengthening Organic Enforcement with Harriet Behar.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024
11:30am - 12:30pm (CST)

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Well, well... Isn't this interesting?

Nigel Palmer -- frequent contributor to Acres U.S.A. magazine (including March 2024) -- will be hosting an online workshop starting February 17 on how to create low-cost, on-farm/garden mineral and biological amendments.

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A recent pilot study found that 88% of tested kale was contaminated with PFAS, aka forever chemicals.

One sample even had PFOS, a PFAS chemical that was phased out of production in 2002.

To make matters worse, the certified organic kale had significantly higher concentrations…

Over 100 years ago and at the end of his career, Rudolph Virchow, known as the Father of Pathology shared a wistful reflection:

“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that [pathogens] seek their natural habitat – diseased tissue – rather than being…

From an outstanding article by David Olson in the upcoming March issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine (acresusa.com/magazine):