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Manage Weeds Videos Featured Imagewww.sare.org resources manage-weeds-on-your-farm-video-series

Manage Weeds on Your Farm Video Series

Learn more with the book Manage Weeds on Your Farm. In this series, experienced farmers from around the country talk about how they have found success controlling weeds by following...

northeast.sare.org resources how-alive-is-my-soil

How Alive is My Soil?

This guide presents soil testing methods that can be performed in the field by farmers, gardeners, or anyone who desires to understand and appreciate soil from a different perspective. While...

transitioning to organic production guidewww.sare.org resources transitioning-to-organic-production

Transitioning to Organic Production

Farmers and ranchers decide to pursue organic certification for many personal, financial and environmental reasons. This publication introduces you to the requirements of the USDA National Organic Program and outlines...

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Food Safety and Conservation Co-Management: A Guide for Hawai‘i Growers

A guide for Hawaii farmers interested in improving their efforts towards food safety and improving natural resource conservation, through co-management practices. This document acts as a resource to both learn...

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Manure Composting Video Series

Many farms, especially organic farms, use compost to build better soil. Composting involves managing organic waste so microbes can break down the material, turning it into compost. Most organic materials,...

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Soil Health Principles and Practices Videos

Investing in soil health is critical to the success of all farms, but many beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers struggle to put soil health principles into practice. There can be...

Soil Acidity Guidewestern.sare.org resources preventing-soil-acidification-in-montana-and-elsewhere

WSARE Quick Guide: Preventing Soil Acidification in Montana (and Elsewhere)

Most agricultural soils in Montana are not naturally acidic. However, crop losses due to increasing soil acidification have now occurred in 24 Montana counties. Farming practices – specifically applying excess...

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Farming with Soil Life

This handbook, created by The Xerces Society, dives into soil biology. It provides a connection between healthy soils and healthy invertebrates found in temperate agricultural soils. The publication starts with...

Oregon State University fact sheetwestern.sare.org resources estimating-plant-available-nitrogen-release-from-cover-crops

Estimating Plant-Available Nitrogen Release from Cover Crops

This Oregon State University fact sheet explains the basics of plant-available nitrogen (PAN); when to kill cover crops for the maximum PAN benefit; step-by-step instructions on how to perform site-specific...

Hands holding soilnortheast.sare.org resources cornell-soil-health-assessment

Cornell Soil Health Assessment

The Cornell soil health assessment was created to help farmers develop appropriate management solutions to build healthy soils. Visit the Cornell soil health website to find more information about the...

Building Soils for Better Crops Coverwww.sare.org resources building-soils-for-better-crops

Building Soils for Better Crops

The 4th edition of Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management. It provides step-by-step information on soil-improving practices as well as in-depth background—from what...

report on filling soil health prescriptions with targeted cover cropsnortheast.sare.org resources new-york-cover-crops-decision-tool

New York Cover Crops Decision Tool

This is an online tool to help you quickly narrow the choices of cover crop for your situation. In a few seconds, you will have growing instructions for the cover...

High tunnel winter cropping systems presentationnortheast.sare.org resources high-tunnel-winter-cropping-systems

High Tunnel Winter Cropping Systems

A 40-minute presentation by Lewis Jett, West Virginia Extension Service, on the use of high tunnels for winter crop production. Download separate audio and slideshow files:Download audio (MP3, 15MB) Download...

sunn hemp researchwestern.sare.org resources a-sunn-hemp-cover-crop-for-soil-health-and-nematode-management

A Sunn Hemp Cover Crop for Soil Health and Nematode Management

These University of Hawaii fact sheets and virtual field day explain how to use sunn hemp as a cover crop to control weeds, nematodes and other pests, add soil nutrients,...

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Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgeeCmLwWXU Public concerns regarding pesticide misuse, food safety, water use and contamination, and depletion of non-renewable resources have motivated the reevaluation of some of the practices of conventional agriculture and...

southern.sare.org resources making-fish-waste-compost

Making Fish Waste Compost

Dale Snyder, co-owner of Sweetgrass Garden Co-op on Johns Island, S.C., discusses the process used to make fish waste compost. The co-op conducted a Southern SARE-funded study over the summer...

western.sare.org resources mixed-cover-crops

Mixed Cover Crops

An informational video on the pros and cons of planting mixed cover crops which are often used to replace fallow. Focus is on effects of cover crops on soil quality...

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Smart Water Use on Your Farm or Ranch

As producers throughout the nation grow increasingly concerned about water scarcity, farmers, ranchers and agricultural educators are beginning to explore new, conservation-oriented approaches to water use. They are managing soil to...

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On-Farm Internship Training Binder

The Placer Ag Futures Project was conceived as a response to critical issues affecting local agricultural sustainability. This project was intended to help grow a new crop of agricultural professionals...

Nutrient Management in Organic Systems--Idaho Implementation Guide Coverwestern.sare.org resources nutrient-management-plans-idaho

Nutrient Management Plans: Idaho

This is a collaborative project to build the capacity of conservation professionals to assist organic and transitional farmers in planning and implementing conservation practices through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program...

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