“In a diversified cropping system, there’s more carbon input. So we have figured there would be more carbon stored in the soil. But actually, carbon levels in the soil didn’t change over 20 years, ...

Global biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, with agriculture as a major driver. There is mounting evidence that intercropping can increase insect biodiversity while maintaining or ...

Native farmers in North America used complex cropping systems, often raising corn, pole beans, and squash (or pumpkins) on fields at the same time. Archeological evidence indicates that this ...

Longer, more diverse rotations of crops fertilized with livestock manure don't sequester carbon as well as previously thought ...

"In a diversified cropping system, there's more carbon input. So we have figured there would be more carbon stored in the soil. But actually, carbon levels in the soil didn't change over 20 years ...

Intercropping systems, which involve growing two or more crop species in proximity, have gained attention as a sustainable agricultural practice aimed at optimizing crop yields and enhancing ...

Although blacks outnumbered whites, the sharecropping system that replaced slavery helped ensure they remained poor and virtually locked out of any opportunity for land ownership or basic human ...

Crop rotation is a central component of all sustainable farming systems. Crop rotation offers the most effective, indirect method of minimizing pest, disease and weed problems and maintaining and ...

North Dakota State University’s Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC) has gained an Extension cropping systems ...