Extract from a news release by SARE (5/15/2023). Sustainable farming emphasizes the need to consider the environmental, economic and social impacts of agriculture. For decades, sustainable agriculture research has focused more on environmental stewardship and profitability than on personal and social issues. SARE’s newest bulletin, Resilient Farmers, Ranchers and Communities: Social Sustainability in Agriculture, describes how[Read More…]
Lais McCartney
Heritage Corn: Planting, Challenges, and Educating from the Family Plot Perspective This winter, Northern Indiana farmer, Zuleyja Prieto, finished her SARE farmer rancher grant that focused on planting and preserving heritage corn varieties (Figure 1). Prieto worked with her family and local farmer collaborators on heritage corn in a family plot for two years. A[Read More…]
The 2023 cover crop survey is underway Adopted from NCR SARE news release, “Farmers: Share Your Thoughts on Cover Crops in the National Cover Crop Survey!“, March 1, 2023 Farmers are invited to share their thoughts on cover crops in an online survey. Why do you plant cover crops…or why don’t you? What do you[Read More…]