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Subterranean Clover: A Successful Cover Crop for Local Hazelnut Orchardist - Clackamas SWCD
Subterranean Clover: A Successful Cover Crop for Local Hazelnut Orchardist - Clackamas SWCD
In 2017, he tried subterranean clover in his NE field. Subterranean clover is a cool-season annual legume that produces seeds during the summer at or below the soil surface (hence the name subterranean). Seeds then germinate in the fall after the first rains and grow rapidly through the fall/early winter. It may go dormant for a time during the winter, but becomes active again in early spring. It grows in densely matted clumps that are 6-15 inches tall. The clover spreads through rootless runners reaching up to 3 feet in length. After a few years of trial, Fred reports that the “Subclover cover crop, in what is now our nine-year-old hazelnut orchard, is working very well and is quite easy to manage. Plus, now as the trees have sent roots out in the row centers, we are getting some nitrogen benefits. This orchard was visibly greener than our other orchards last spring. Every year it [the cover crop] gets better without having to add any seed since it is self-seeding.”
·conservationdistrict.org·
Subterranean Clover: A Successful Cover Crop for Local Hazelnut Orchardist - Clackamas SWCD
How does wind erosion affect farming in Washington state? | Morning Ag Clips
How does wind erosion affect farming in Washington state? | Morning Ag Clips
The May 7th, 2021 Sustainable, Secure Food Blog explores how wind erosion affects farming in Washington and some solutions farmers can use. According to blogger Andrew McGuire, “Wind erosion is a soil health thief. In both sandy and fine-grained silt soils of Eastern Washington, wind erosion lifts, sifts, and then carries away the best part of the soil. Lost are the tiny particles of clay and silt with the organic matter that is stuck to them.” Local soil conditions make matters worse. Low rainfall produces sparse vegetation, therefore low soil organic matter levels.
·morningagclips.com·
How does wind erosion affect farming in Washington state? | Morning Ag Clips
How Does Soil Health Impact Farm Management Decisions? – PNW AG Network
How Does Soil Health Impact Farm Management Decisions? – PNW AG Network
“Soil Health is, simply put, the ability to produce marketable outputs with minimal inputs. It’s very important for people to understand that multi-dimensional property is dynamic, it changes over time and it’s dependent on environmental conditions like temperature, moisture and even the microorganisms and worms and all other life that’s present there.”
·pnwag.net·
How Does Soil Health Impact Farm Management Decisions? – PNW AG Network
The template for climate mitigation is soil conservation, says farm-enviro alliance | Successful Farming
The template for climate mitigation is soil conservation, says farm-enviro alliance | Successful Farming
The new era of climate mitigation on the farm would look like a beefed-up version of longstanding USDA conservation programs, augmented by a carbon bank that sets a floor price for carbon sequestration and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, said leaders of the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA) on Wednesday. “That’s what we’ve modeled it after,” said Chuck Connor, a founding member of the alliance and a former deputy agriculture secretary.
·agriculture.com·
The template for climate mitigation is soil conservation, says farm-enviro alliance | Successful Farming
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action promotes agriculture's potential as a climate solution | Successful Farming
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action promotes agriculture's potential as a climate solution | Successful Farming
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) —in conjunction with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), The Mixing Bowl, and Croatan Institute has issued a new report that analyzes the state of soil health technology. The report also identifies opportunities to find new sources of capital to scale up the adoption of climate-smart agriculture on U.S. farms and ranches.
·agriculture.com·
U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action promotes agriculture's potential as a climate solution | Successful Farming