Posts Tagged: crop rotations

Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag

Posted December 22nd, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, federal policy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn…. Read more »

Cashing in on Soil Quality

Posted March 16th, 2012 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog.

Talk of how agriculture can improve soil quality seems to be popping up more frequently these days. Perhaps the most exciting recent mention was in an issue of Successful Farming… Read more »

Denying the Science, Derailing the Solutions

Posted December 23rd, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

I talked to a Todd County farmer yesterday who uses 100 percent no-till  and other conservation measures to raise his crops. Conserving soil is important to him, and so he’s… Read more »

No-Till Farming’s Chemical Roadblock

Posted March 11th, 2011 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture.

An alarming number of stories are appearing in the farm press about how Roundup-resistant weeds are forcing conservation tillage farmers to take a serious look at plowing up their fields—in… Read more »