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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Don Reicosky regarding the
February edition of 'Progressive Farmer' dedicated primarily on soil health
issues describing how many farmers are accepting some of the concepts and
making the appropriate adjustments in their operation.

Thank you Don for sharing.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca


*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage and
Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its
own* (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).



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From: Don Reicosky <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 9:36 PM
Subject: CA pioneers, no-till and carbon articles
To: Don Reicosky <[log in to unmask]>


To all,

In the spirit of sharing and promoting Conservation Agriculture, I have
been working recently with Susan Winsor, a freelance writer for
DTN-progressive farmer, a farmer oriented  popular magazine with a large
distribution throughout the US. Susan does an excellent job covering
No-Till and carbon aspects as understood and implemented by many CA Pioneer
farmers using soil health principles. There is currently a special February
edition primarily on soil health issues describing how many farmers are
accepting some of the concepts and making the appropriate adjustments in
their operation. The web link for that special edition is given below:

http://dtnpf-digital.com/publication/?i=563518&p=66#{"page":64,"issue_id":563518}

Here is the link to that issue, the whole thing is soil health related.
http://dtnpf-digital.com/1/


Also attached is a PDF copy of a selected article from that special edition.

Don
-- 
Don Reicosky
Morris, MN USA 56267
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Cell Phone 320-287-2314

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