November 2024 Issue
Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, November 2024 | Issue #641, Copyright 2024, 67 pages.
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November 2024 • Issue #641
Photo: palmer amaranth (University of Delaware Extension, Flickr)
Photo caption: Palmer amaranth — a noxious weed that is now resistant to many common herbicides — towers over a soybean field. Herbicide technology, which was once thought to be a veritable silver bullet for farmers, has on the whole had mostly negative effects on American farmland.
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On the cover: The Amish community near Winesburg, Ohio, uses gas engines to power a hay baler — a technology that enables people to steward the land — but not for automobiles — a technology that would separate the members of the community. Several articles in this issue consider the principles of wise adoption of technology. Photo courtesy of S. Clyde, National Archives. |
FEATURES
Tech for Twenty-five (and Beyond)
Five new technologies we’re looking forward to in 2025 and the near future
Timing Every Seeding
A short interview with Seedtime cofounders Paul and Edwin Dysinger about how crop planning software can significantly improve efficiency on the farm or garden
Guardians of the Garden
How beneficial microbes enhance the plant’s immune system — a phenomenon known as induced systemic resistance
BY CRAIG HARTSOUGH
The Cold War against Organic Farming
The origins of anti-organic rhetoric in the 1950s
BY ANNELIESE ABBOTT
Techological Farming
Let’s choose technologies that enhance our ability to care for the Earth, for one another and for the future
BY MARK SHEPARD
Global Positioning Stewardship?
No-fence grazing systems are improving, and costs are going down — it may be a good example of ag tech can lead to better land stewardship
BY TAYLOR HENRY
DEPARTMENTS
VIEW FROM THE COUNTRY
Monthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor
OPINION
Designing Technology for Regeneration
We should embrace technology only when it brings us closer to the natural world
BY JOHN KEMPF
ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science
REGEN AGRONOMY
Don't Guess - Test
A Review of Advanced soil and plant testing technologies in agriculture.
BY PATRICK FREEZE
REGEN ECONOMICS
Going Viral Is Not a Marketing Strategy
When it comes to marketing, there is no such thing as a silver bullet
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS
INTERVIEW
DNA: The Next Generation
Dr. Laura Kavanaugh, chief science officer of Advancing Eco Agriculture, talks about third-generation DNA soil testing, which can provide greater understanding of how soil is functioning and greater applicability of that knowledge for farmers
REVIEWS
MARKETPLACE
CLASSIFIEDS
ECO-MEETINGS
ECO-GRAPHIC
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.
