June 2025 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, June 2025 | Issue #648, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. 

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Contents

June 2025 • Issue #648

Photo: Field (Courtesy of Dan Brown)

Photo caption: Clover grows in between rows of hazelnuts at Dan Brown’s Oregon orchard. Read about Dan’s nutrient management successes in the interview on page 44.

FEATURES

Rye Observations
Focusing on biology has helped me steward Lakeside Farm in northern Michigan for 45 years
BY DAVE SKORNIA

Farm-grown Biofertilizers
Farmers around the world are creating their own low-cost, highly productive biofertilizers
BY STEVE DIVER

Sulfur Is Not a Pesticide!
Sulfur dioxide — not sulfur itself — is the active ingredient in pesticides, and it poses health risks to farmers; potassium sorbate is a compelling alternative
BY RONALD LANE

Breaking Consensus
“Scientific” attacks on organic farming in the 1980s
BY ANNELIESE ABBOTT

Decay!
In an ecological system, the decay of organic matter, in all its forms, is the backbone of soil fertility
BY MARK SHEPARD

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION
Regulating Nature
Further regulating plant nutrition products puts even more market control in the hands of large agricorporations
BY JEFFREY KLEYPAS

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
Livestock Mineral: From the Soil Up
Livestock producers can save money and improve cattle and human health by supplying minerals via the soil/plant instead of the trough.
BY JOHN KEMPF

INTERVIEW
Nutrition for Hazelnuts
Oregon hazelnut grower Dan Brown and John Kempf discuss how nutrition and crop management practices — including some that may seem crazy — have helped reduce inputs while maintaining yield

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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