Touch the Soil News #2054 (photo – Field Corn – USDA NRCS) Farm Journal’s AgWeb news portal reports on a new field of research that studies roots. In this case it is corn roots. The importance of corn research is that this year there will be 91 million acres of corn planted, making it the…
Touch the Soil News #2003 (photo – Four Hopi women grinding grain – (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Regenerative Agriculture, a key concept growing in the ranks of agriculture, sustained many Native American societies. The selection of crops, their planting integration and rotations sustained these native cultures for centuries – setting a standard worthy of…
Touch the Soil News #1988 – Regenerating Soils – (Courtesy of USDA – Public Domain) Brightvibes news portal brings the story of a Southern California farm that transformed materially depleted land into a Regenerative Farm. The process took the owners 8 years, and they are pleased with the results and where they are headed now. …
Touch the Soil News #1844 (Feature Photo – Benedict Bosel – Courtesy of Benedict Bosel) Agfunder News, recently interviewed Benedict Bosel, who left investment banking to take over the management of his family’s 7.400 acre farm in 2016. And the farm was in a drought prone region of Germany. Bosel made it for the last…
I Touch the Soil News #1568 (Feature photo – Cover Crops – CCA SA 4.0 International, Mr. 1032.) GreenBiz journalist Jim Giles brings us interesting insights about the potential of regenerative farming practices to absorb carbon and stabilize the climate. The largest use of land in the world is agriculture. How farming is done can…
Touch the Soil News #1340 (Feature photo – Integrating Trees into Farmscapes – Pixture2016 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73809651) AgFunder journalist Emily Payne takes a look at regenerative agriculture amidst what can be termed as an unfolding “Topsoil Crisis”. According to the United Nations, 1/3 of the world’s topsoils have been acutely degraded.…
