April 2025 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, April 2025 | Issue #646, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. 

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Contents

April 2025 • Issue #646

Photo: Vegetables

Photo caption: (Eric Nordell) — Eric Nordell shallowly incorporates cover crops and short-term sod. 

FEATURES

Getting Testy
While we’ve seen many improvements in our soil over the past forty years, more and better testing from the start would have alerted us to some underlying weaknesses in our soil management
BY ANNE AND ERIC NORDELL

Biologically Driven Water Management
Managing soil in preference of biology affects how much water stays in our fields
BY JON STIKA

EM-1, Bokashi and Vermicompost
Microbial allies for sustainable pest management
BY CRAIG HARTSOUGH

Compost and Community

Threefold Farm in New York may be the oldest continuously operating biodynamic farm in the country

BY ANNELIESE ABBOTT

DEPARTMENTS

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

Deliberate Disturbance
Good stewardship is not about minimizing disturbances, but about optimizing disturbances to produce the best ecosystem and productivity outcomes
BY JOHN KEMPF

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
Before and After Regenerative Agronomy
A regenerative consultant looks back on three case studies from his conventional past and what he could have done differently
BY CORY ST. CLAIR

INTERVIEW
Putting Eco-Agriculture in Practice
Longtime farmer and researcher Helen Atthowe discusses the possibilities and challenges of taking the established principles of eco-agriculture and making them work in commercial vegetable and fruit production

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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