February 2025 Issue

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 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, February 2025 | Issue #644, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. 

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February 2025 • Issue #644

Photo: Winter Pasture

Photo caption: Henry Farms in Viroqua, Wisconsin — winter pasture management follows the decisions made months earlier.

On the cover: (Phil Roeder, Flickr) — We hope that this seasonal time of rest will provide you time to recover and to consider your farm management strategies for the coming growing season.

FEATURES

Restore Your Farm’s Natural Capital
Understanding how productive your land once was will help you make holistic management decisions to benefit generations to come
BY SIOBHAN GRIFFIN

Bye Bye, Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet potatoes need not be merely for Thanksgiving dinner — Dr. Janice Bohac is developing varieties that can produce more than four times more ethanol per acre than corn
INTERVIEW WITH DR. JANICE BOHAC

Ecological Succession
Understanding disturbance and succession helps us as eco-farmers to use our management to “steer” our site into a direction of health, fertility and stability
BY MARK SHEPARD

Long-Term Land Management
A systems approach to beef farming is the best way I know to enable long-term success in managing land
BY TAYLOR HENRY

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION
The OODA Loop
Utilizing a simple process of observing, orienting, deciding and acting can help farmers make better decisions every day
BY JORDAN GREEN

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
Conventional Fear Meets Regenerative Wisdom
Advice for conventional growers to weather unpredictable changes — whether in climate or in regulations
BY JEFFREY KLEYPAS

REGEN ECONOMICS
Voice to Database
Your farm records can be kept simply, via voice message
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS

INTERVIEW
How to Generate Experience Faster
Farm and landscape designer Darren Doherty speaks with John Kempf about principles of design, emphasizing management changes over infrastructure changes, and how to learn from experience in a richer way

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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