
Tag Archives soil health

Where marketing meets agronomy
Is regenerative agriculture a feel-good slogan, or an honest-to-goodness scientific advance?

A change in mindset on soil
We’ve always talked of soil productivity. Hmmm… what if we talked soil profitability instead?

Dig deeper to understand soils
Challenging what we’ve always thought can be enlightening, not disruptive

Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show looks to lock in land base
GFM plans to buy research land for eastern Discovery Farm

New directions in cover crops
Today, factors like microbial interactions and soil quality are influencing choices and practices

Call in a nurse. A “nurse” crop that is
A second crop planted along with potatoes protects the soil and boosts yields

Timmerman trains the Tiger Hills of Treherne
A Manitoba farmer has seen major yield improvement by recapping his hills with topsoil from his lower land

The next green revolution
In this Ontario lab, bacteria are working to drive nutrient uptake and accelerate crop growth

Where Ontario’s soil health strategy falls short
Farmers understand the crucial role of soil health for feeding the world. So why is it such a struggle to get support for that goal?

Real work on soil health needs to be done
Fine speeches about our soil make us all feel good, but there's an increasing urgency for wider adoption
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