May 2025 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, May 2025 | Issue #647, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. 

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Contents

May 2025 • Issue #647

Photo: Orchard (Courtesy of Russell Wallack)

Photo caption: Breadtree Farms in New York’s Hudson Valley is the home of 15,000+ chestnuts, hickories, apples, pears, mulberries and persimmons — in orchards grazed by sheep and cattle. Read our interview with Breadtree’s founder, Russell Wallack, on page 44.

FEATURES

Whole-Systems Orcharding
Healthy, profitable orchards require a holistic, multi-pronged strategy for disease and pest control
BY CHUCK SCHEMBRE

Trees for Bakers
An interview with New York chestnut grower Russell Wallack about establishing an organic chestnut orchard — and a market — here in the U.S.

Molecules of Life
Plant photosynthesis creates the molecules of life, turning rocks into living soil
BY ANDRE LEU

Hope against Replant Syndrome
Understand plant communities in order to avoid the pitfalls of replant syndrome — and to develop a generational succession plan for your perennial crops
BY MARK SHEPARD

Grazing Across the Decades
Lessons from two farms in different stages of silvopasture development
BY TAYLOR HENRY

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION
The Power of the Customer
A plea — as both a farmer and a consumer — to consumers regarding the current opportunity to change agriculture
BY MOLLIE ENGELHART

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
Farming, Fishing, and the Art of Balance
The key to both farming and fishing is to tailor your approach to the specifics of your target while managing the overall ecosystem responsibly
BY ETHAN DARLING

INTERVIEW
An Industry Conventional Ag Destroyed
Benny McLean, a lifelong Florida citrus expert, talks with John Kempf about the conventional agronomic practices that have led to the steep decline of the industry — and how ecological approaches that emphasize soil and plant health are the solution

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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