Financing Your Farm: Guidance for Beginning Farmers
…is required to build healthy soils, outsmart pests and weeds, and harvest enough of a product (or variety of products) that people will buy at prices that cover your expenses…
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Report Identifies Needs of California’s Organic Sector
…and reporting. While small growers struggled with financial and regulatory burdens, larger growers reported challenges in managing weeds and pests at scale. Related ATTRA publication: Planning for Profit in Sustainable…
Specialty Crops for Cold Climates
…three weeks on either side of field production. Hoop houses can also help prevent certain pests that can be devastating to brambles, such as cane borers. Hoch Orchard, an organic…
Sustainable Pest and Weed Control Database
…pest. For some of the common pests, information about Pest Prevention is provided It’s important that the pest be correctly identified, so that the appropriate product can be used. The…
Vegetables
…weeds and pests by providing an abundance of biodiversity while diversifying risk for the whole farm operation. The practical ATTRA resources provided here can help vegetable farmers enter new markets,…
SIFT 2019: Continuing Lessons from a Small-Scale Urban Intensive Farm
…replace missing plants following some vigorous pruning by vertebrate pests over the 2018-2019 winter. Additional reasons for not expanding at present were that these bushes are currently $25 to $28…
Spider Mites—Botanical Control Formulations
By Justin Duncan, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Spider mites are among the most notorious of pests. They multiply rapidly in hot, dry conditions and can easily overwhelm a field, particularly if…
No-Till Case Study, Brown’s Ranch: Improving Soil Health Improves the Bottom Line
…different shapes and cover different areas of the soil. Also, planting them together reduces the risk of failure due to pests or disease. Planting both increases the chance that at…
New Lettuce Lines Offer Improved Disease and Pest Resistance
…damaging diseases and pests without chemicals, and without loss of yield or quality, is a significant benefit to producers. The researchers are offering seed samples for further research, including development…
Donetta Boykin
…Donnetta said, because she has always wanted to farm organically. She also uses companion planting and flowers as natural pest deterrents to bring a healthy balance of repelling pests and…