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Farm bill pays high dividends for people and the environment
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Hill
The Agriculture Adjustment Act, also known as the farm bill, provides crop
payments, insurance subsidies and loans to many American farmers. However,
fewer recognize that the bill has a much wider scope that includes
forestry, energy and conservation programs. A new report called, "The State
of the Birds 2017: A Farm Bill Special Report," highlighted how this
strategic federal investment not only supports the livelihoods of farmers,
ranchers, and forest owners, but also protects critical ecosystem services
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Adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses
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University
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To help plants better fend off insect pests, researchers are arming them
with stones. The University of Delaware's Ivan Hiltpold and researchers
from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney
University in Australia are examining the addition of silicon to the soil
in which plants are grown to help strengthen plants against potential
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What does 'climate-smart agriculture' really mean? New tool breaks it down
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Reliefweb
A Trinidadian scientist has developed a mechanism for determining the
degree of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) compliance with respect to
projects, processes and products. This comes as global attention is drawn
to climate-smart agriculture as one of the approaches to mitigate or adapt
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Grain prices influence farm bill's conservation compliance provisions
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Agweek
In a newly released study by USDA's Economic Research Service, the
effectiveness of the farm bill's conservation compliance provisions was
looked at under the two most recent farm bills. While both the 2008 and
2014 farm bills retained the conservation compliance provisions for highly
erodible land and draining of wetlands, a major policy change under the
2014 farm bill was that eligibility for farm program benefits was expanded
to include the premium subsidies provided under federal crop insurance.  READ
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Mobile drip offers promise
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Times-News
Water savings are a key benefit of drip irrigation systems, but burying
drip tape into fields where crops like sugar beets are grown just hasn't
proven to be cost-effective. Now, some irrigation companies are hoping to
marry the advantages of drip irrigation to the convenience of center pivot
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The zoo beneath our feet: We're only beginning to understand soil's hidden
world
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The
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The gardener has a long, touchy-feely relationship with the soil. As every
good cultivator knows, you assess the earth by holding it. Is it dark and
crumbly, is there an earthworm or beetle in there, is it moist, and when
you smell it, are you getting that pleasant earthy aroma? All these signs
are reassuring, and have been through the ages, but they are mere
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The Upper Midwest is in the grips of a historic drought, pretty close on
the heels of several historic floods. Both extremes cause devastating,
expensive problems for agriculture. But agronomist Andrea Basche thinks an
answer to improving outcomes for droughts and floods might be the same.
Basche was the lead researcher on a report entitled, "Turning Soils into
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Efforts by farmers to reduce the amount of fertilizer that reaches drinking
water sources can take years to have a positive impact, according to a new
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on the type of terrain, efforts to reduce algae-causing nutrients such as
nitrogen and phosphorus from reaching water sources such as the Great Lakes
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Agricultural producers are typically blamed for applying fertilizer that
pollutes local waters and carries oxygen-depleting nitrogen and phosphorus
to the northern Gulf of Mexico. However, a strong majority of Illinois
farmers believe they are doing their part to protect the environment,
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Wisconsin residents' concerns about water quality and farmers concerns
about improving soils while producing healthy crops in an era of small
margins of profit have led to the formation of a Healthy Soils workgroup
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and Marty Weiss and Jeff Gaska, Beaver Dam, about 20 farmers have met
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