March 2025 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, March 2025 | Issue #645, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. 

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Contents

March 2025 • Issue #645

Photo: Pest

Photo caption: Holistic veterinarian Will Winter and Acres U.S.A. owner Taylor Henry, observing Taylor’s cattle. Read about Will’s preventative recommendations for healthy cattle on page 32.

FEATURES

Microbial Nutrient Delivery
Two relatively new understandings of how plants and microbes work together — rhizophagy and exclusion-zone water — help explain why regenerative practices work better in some soils than others
BY JOHN KEMPF

Give Your Crop’s Immune System a Chance to Work
Healthy, mineralized soils and healthy plants are the key to protecting your crop
BY GARY ZIMMER

Ecological Succession for Pest Resistance
Understanding disturbance and succession helps us as eco-farmers to use our management to steer our farms toward greater resistance to pests and disease
BY MARK SHEPARD

An Ounce of Mineral Prevention
Minerals, clean water and apple cider vinegar offer holistic disease prevention for cattle
BY TAYLOR HENRY

DEPARTMENTS

VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor

OPINION
Microbial Soup for the Soil
Farming to optimize plant-microbe interaction is the best way to ensure the food we eat contains the phytochemicals that will make us healthy
BY WILLIE PRETORIUS

ECO-UPDATE

News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
The Hidden Resilience of Healthy Plants
Growers can manage plant nutrition to achieve resistance to pests and diseases
BY JASON STOLL

INTERVIEW
Built-In Pest Management
Researcher Joe Lewis and researcher/farmer Alton Walker discuss how to harness nature’s built-in mechanisms to keep pests in check in order to successfully grow healthy crops

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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