October 2024 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, October 2024 | Issue #640, Copyright 2024, 67 pages. 

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Contents

October 2024 • Issue #640

Photo: Sunflower field (Courtesy of Jay Fuhrer)

Photo caption: A sunflower field on Menoken Farm seeded with 10 cover crop species (buckwheat, cowpea, soybean, field pea, flax, phacelia, sub clover, canola, turnip and radish).

FEATURES

Opening the Cover Crop Window
There are many innovative ways to incorporate cover crops into a corn and soybean rotation
BY KEITH BERNS

Opening the Corridor
The Solar Corridor Cropping System offers the possibility of both yield and soil health
BY TIM REINBOTT, LEROY DEICHMAN AND ROBERT KREMER 

If I Had a Trillion Houseflies
An introduction to the ecology of populations
BY MARK SHEPARD

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION
Anytime and All the Time
When to use cover crops
BY GARY ZIMMER

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY

BY PATRICK FREEZE

REGEN ECONOMICS
Grant Writing 102
The art of writing a winning grant proposal
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS

INTERVIEW
You Reap What You Sow
Jay Fuhrer, one of the first to articulate the principles of soil health, discusses how to prioritize soil health, various cover crop strategies, and the ever-present tillage vs. herbicide debate

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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