Posts Tagged ‘crop rotation’
FARM BILL: Testimony On Long-Term Cropland Adjustment | 1965
STATEMENT OF SENATOR GAYLORD NELSON TO SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE ON S. 1702, A BILL FOR A LONG-TERM CROPLAND ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM TO ASSIST PRODUCERS IN DIVERTING CROPLAND TO CONSERVATION USES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — June 30, 1965 Summary: Testimony statement of Senator Gaylord Nelson to Senate Agriculture committee on S. 1702, a bill…
Read MoreIowa Farmer’s Transition to Organic Pays Dividends In Fertile Soil, Healthy Livestock, and Direct Markets
by Roger Blobaum Clarence Van Sant, who farms 135 acres of rolling land in central Iowa, has never put much stock in the advice of economists who insist farmers have to keep getting bigger to make it. Nor has he accepted the suggestions from his land grant university and others that you have to apply…
Read More‘Every Year Was Better; The Fourth Was the Turning Point. It Was Just Wonderful To Be Able to Farm That Way Again’
by Roger Blobaum If you’re wondering whether large family-type farmers can kick the chemical habit and still grow plenty of food profitably, you should see the three organic operations just north of State 33 near Fremont in eastern Nebraska. These up-to-date farms cover more than 1,300 acres of some of the most productive land on…
Read MoreOrganic Farmers in 17 States Market Commodities At Premium Prices Through New Marketing Agency 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum Larry Eggen, like many Midwest organic producers, used to talk about getting state or local marketing setups organized to help farmers sell organically-grown production to buyers in big cities. That was when Eggen had a small vegetable and hog operation near Walnut Grove, Minn., and was active in signing up organic farmers…
Read MoreNebraska Experiment Station Leader Outlines Details of Midwest’s First Organic Farming Trials 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum Setting up some alternative crop management plots at an agricultural field laboratory hardly qualifies as a major research event. But to Midwest organic farmers, accustomed to getting the cold shoulder from agricultural college researchers, it ranks as a significant breakthrough. A report on these new plots by Dr. Warren W. Sahs was…
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