September 2024 Issue

 Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, September 2024 | Issue #639, Copyright 2024, 67 pages. 

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Contents

September 2024 • Issue #639

Photo: Oak (Courtesy of Jochen Speiker, Flickr)

Photo caption: This cornfield will receive at least some pest control via the beneficial predators who live in this oak. Read Mark Shepard’s defense of natural pest control.

FEATURES

Capital Gains
Biome Capital’s Erin Feger talks about how to craft mutually beneficial relationships between ecologically minded farmers and the investment community

Certification Organization Proliferation
Comparing four new regenerative certification programs
BY LUCAS HUBBARD

Navigating the Data Flood
Farmers and agronomists need to learn how to leverage new data analysis and visualization tools that can help them use the ever-increasing amount of data they’re collecting
BY DEBRA AURICH

Let’s Go Plant an Oak
A handful of acorns makes the pesticides go down
BY MARK SHEPARD

DEPARTMENTS

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

OPINION
True Cost
A few reasons someone might want to pause before voting for cheaper potatoes
BY MAUREEN ASH

ECO-UPDATE
News in brief on developments in agronomic science

REGEN AGRONOMY
Supplying Soil Carbon
Improving soil carbon is at the heart of regenerative agriculture — and regenerative supply chains
BY PATRICK FREEZE

REGEN ECONOMICS
Landing Grants
If grants are right for your farm, here’s how to find them
BY KIRSTEN SIMMONS

INTERVIEW
What Would You Do with a Hundred Million Dollars?
Koen van Seijen of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast talks with John Kempf about the need for more capital to support the transition to regenerative agriculture — and what farmers should do with that money when it comes

REVIEWS

MARKETPLACE

CLASSIFIEDS

ECO-MEETINGS

ECO-GRAPHIC

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