September 2024 Issue
Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, September 2024 | Issue #639, Copyright 2024, 67 pages.
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Contents
September 2024 • Issue #639
Photo: Oak (Courtesy of Jochen Speiker, Flickr)
Photo caption: This cornfield will receive at least some pest control via the beneficial predators who live in this oak. Read Mark Shepard’s defense of natural pest control.
On the cover: The road farmers tread to maintain and grow their operation can be tumultuous. New sources of capital for regenerative farms can help. See our interviews on this topic with Erin Feger and Koen van Seijen. (Photo courtesy of Patrick Emerson, Flickr) |
FEATURES
Capital Gains
Biome Capital’s Erin Feger talks about how to craft mutually beneficial relationships between ecologically minded farmers and the investment community
Certification Organization Proliferation
Comparing four new regenerative certification programs
BY LUCAS HUBBARD
Navigating the Data Flood
Farmers and agronomists need to learn how to leverage new data analysis and visualization tools that can help them use the ever-increasing amount of data they’re collecting
BY DEBRA AURICH
Let’s Go Plant an Oak
A handful of acorns makes the pesticides go down
BY MARK SHEPARD
DEPARTMENTS
VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor
OPINION
True Cost
A few reasons someone might want to pause before voting for cheaper potatoes
BY MAUREEN ASH
ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science
REGEN AGRONOMY
Supplying Soil Carbon
Improving soil carbon is at the heart of regenerative agriculture — and regenerative supply chains
BY PATRICK FREEZE
REGEN ECONOMICS
Landing Grants
If grants are right for your farm, here’s how to find them
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS
INTERVIEW
What Would You Do with a Hundred Million Dollars?
Koen van Seijen of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast talks with John Kempf about the need for more capital to support the transition to regenerative agriculture — and what farmers should do with that money when it comes
REVIEWS
MARKETPLACE
CLASSIFIEDS
ECO-MEETINGS
ECO-GRAPHIC
My Farmer, My Customer
New! Learn from Marty Travis's experiences converting the Spence Farm into one of the most successful farming co-ops in the United States today.