By Mark Watson, Panhandle No-till Educator Thursday, July 22, 2010 The value of leaving the previous crop’s residue attached and on the soil surface has been evident again this spring. The year started out with high winds during the winter which caused severe wind erosion in several summer fallow wheat fields around the region. Evidence [...]
Archive for the ‘soil’ Category
No Till: Wind and water
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. Legal and Legislative factors
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farming has generally been an unregulated activity. The primary legal and legislative involvement has been in the approval and regulation of chemical sprays and fertilizers. That is now changing. Farmers are finding that environmental concerns are leading to legal and legislative impacts on their business activities. This fact was highlighted as long ago as February 11, [...]
No-Till Farming May Be Best Way to Reduce Ag’s Carbon Footprint
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Kristen Ridley There’s been a lot of talk about the benefits of open pasture with grass-fed livestock to the environment, particularly about it’s capacity to sequester tons of carbon, but what about non-animal agriculture? As I recently reported, soil cultivation is responsible for the majority of agricultural carbon emissions, and over-cultivation is one of [...]
Farming carbon as a cash crop
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kathleen O’Hara Like most city dwellers, my knowledge of farming is embarrassingly limited. But a conference on agriculture and global warming has inspired me to dig deeper (pun intended) into things rural. The speaker who grabbed my urban-oriented attention was American-born, U.K.-based Craig Sams, co-founder of Green and Black’s organic chocolate bars. His message was, [...]
Securing carbon in our soil
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Nicole Schuetz Better farming practices can improve crop yield and lock up greenhouse gases Everybody knows plants store carbon. But soils do too. That’s the idea behind organic no-till farming, a cultivation technique that could dramatically increase soil carbon storage across the globe. Research has shown organic farming methods sequester more carbon per acre [...]
Disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing By TOM PAULSON The planet is getting skinned. While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet. Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is [...]
Storing CO2 in soil should be on U.N. agenda: Gore
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Developing emissions markets to encourage farmers in poor countries to store more carbon dioxide in soil should be a key topic on the U.N. climate talks agenda, global warming activist Al Gore said. “I think that soil carbon conservation and recarbonizing of soil must be the next stage in this negotiating process,” former U.S. Vice [...]
Benefits of the Vesco”Terra-Glide” Technology
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, investment, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Terra-Glide Technology systems have evolved from concept to reality, now looking to deliver measurable financial and ecological benefits to the world of agriculture – a world that has been thrust into an era where true conservation of the world’s farmlands using sustainable agriculture methods is no longer an option, but a necessity. Terra-Glide is a revolutionary no-tillage [...]
No-till Farming Improves Soil Stability
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A joint Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-multi-university study across the central Great Plains on the effects of more than 19 years of various tillage practices shows that no-till makes soil much more stable than plowed soil. The study was led by Humberto Blanco-Canqui at Kansas State University at Hays, Kan., and Maysoon Mikha at the ARS [...]
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. Dealing with Soil erosion.
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, No Till Farming, soil erosion on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Soil erosion: The world is facing an agricultural crisis of pandemic proportions: the catastrophic loss of topsoil. After covering the earth for thousands of years, the world’s topsoil is being lost at an alarming rate. In reality, for the past 100 years, our land has been more ‘mined’ than farmed. Historically farmers used the soil, [...]
