Breeding crops for farming systems rather than yield alone could exploit untapped genetic potential and help farmers cut ...

Switching to certain crop rotations to increase the amount of organic carbon stored in soil could eventually result in higher profits while keeping harmful carbon dioxide emissions out of the ...

Shawn Feikema treats beef and swine manure as a primary fertility resource and profit lever, managing it with precision, composting, and timing so that, in his words, fields that consistently receive ...

Crop rotation optimisation seeks to design sequences of crops over multiple seasons that balance agronomic productivity, resource use efficiency and ecosystem service delivery. By varying crop species ...

This week on the Super Smart Farm Show, we’re having a field day while talking about why farmers like to move their crops ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...

Sunripe Farms, based in the Kigali region of Rwanda, operates 30 hectares of cultivated land, including 2 hectares under 24 greenhouse units. The company is certified under HACCP and GLOBALG.A.P.

This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Donegal, Tipperary and Wexford as cover crops are planted late and attention turns ...