August 2024 Issue
Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, August 2024 | Issue #638, Copyright 2024, 67 pages.
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August 2024 • Issue #638
Photo: Scrimger
Photo caption: Working in a buckwheat cover crop at Joe Scrimger’s farm in the 1980s. Read our interview with Joe, discussing his career in farming, sales and soil health
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On the cover: Chuck Schembre examines a shovel full of healthy soil. A lifelong student and lover of the soil, Schembre argues that inputs alone can never deliver the full range of benefits that biologically active and diverse soil can |
FEATURES
A Simple Compaction Solution
A short conversation with Iowa grower Loran Steinlage about improving soil health by reducing compaction using controlled traffic
The Great Humus Debate
From von Liebig to the present, what humus is — and what it can do for farmers — continues to be debated
BY WILL BRINTON
Above the Lawn
Soil health lessons — compliments of regenerative lawncare
BY TIM SHEPPARD
You Can’t Spell Harvest without RV
Harvest Host offers an easy option for farms to dip a toe into agritourism
BY LUCAS HUBBARD
Photosynthesis, Leaves and Foliar Feeding
Understanding leaves better can inform your farming practices
BY MARK SHEPARD
DEPARTMENTS
VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor
OPINION
Principles or Products?
Inputs alone can never result in true soil health — following the principles is the only real solution
BY CHUCK SCHEMBRE
ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science
REGEN AGRONOMY
A Systems Approach to Soil Health
BY PATRICK FREEZE
REGEN ECONOMICS
Refining SOPs
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS
INTERVIEW
Greening the Thumb
An interview with long-time Michigan farmer and consultant Joe Scrimger about conservation tillage, transitioning from conventional practices, and his Acres U.S.A. mentors
REVIEWS
MARKETPLACE
CLASSIFIEDS
ECO-MEETINGS
ECO-GRAPHIC
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United StatesThe Greening of the Thumb
Good, I ordered10 and gave them to my extended relatives that are interested in Soil Health. I have had a subscription for ~40 years and Paul sent me 3 extra copies that I gave to neighbor farmers. So because the article was on some of my history and current view of food and farming it was important to share that issue. I have many years of issues in the basement. I have appreciate your magazine along with the Walters family over the years and look forward to meeting the new owner.
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.
