USDA Tool Connecting Retiring and Beginning Farmers Online
From The Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA): USDA has created a new tool so that landowners and beginners interested in the Conservation Reserve Program Transition Incentives [...]
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Soil Micronutrients in Organic Farming: Production & Certification Issues
Soil Trace Elements and the Organic Farmer (by Gary Zimmer; MOSES, The Organic Broadcaster) SUMMARY: Just like in the production of a grass-fed animal, quality and care is [...]
Tillage & Cover Cropping Strategies for Soil & Energy Conservation in Sweet Corn
by Daniel Brainard and Benjamin Henshaw, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University SUMMARY: Reduced-tillage, cover crop intensive production systems have [...]
Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Farmers
The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for people interested in starting a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 14-16, 2011 [...]
Job: Organic Farm Manager – Dartmouth, MA
Eva’s Garden, located in coastal southeastern Massachusetts (Dartmouth), is looking for a farm manager to coordinate the production of greens, culinary herbs, and flowers. [...]
Pasture Dairy Internship, Michigan
Pasture Dairy Center, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Outreach Internship Position Description: The Michigan State University W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Dairy is [...]
Job: Farm Manager – Stranger’s Hill Organics, Indiana
Position Description: Stranger’s Hill Organics seeks a dedicated, energetic and skilled Farm Manager for our historic 81-acre organic farm just 6.5 miles west of [...]
Conservation Sterwardship Program Signup Period Extended
From the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Are you a farmer or private forestland owner who practices conservation? This is the time to sign up for the Conservation [...]
Potash Industry Consolidation and Rising Prices
Global Potash Industry Consolidation (by Tony D’Altorio, Investment U Research) EXCERPT: In mid-2008… potash prices spiked to nearly $1,000 a ton. Yet just two years [...]
Long Term Global Food Security Issues and Perspectives
Varied Menus for Sustaining a Well-Fed World (By ANDREW C. REVKIN – New York Times, Opinion) EXCERPT: On many issues relevant to charting a smooth human journey in this [...]
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