SARE’s newest handbook, Cover Crops: Improving Soil Health, Stewardship and Profitability on the Farm helps farmers understand how cover crops can fit into their operations: https://t.co/OyfkmEM0TQ
SARE’s newest bulletin, 10 Steps for Conducting Research on Your Farm or Ranch, provides a practical framework that can help producers design and carry out on-farm research projects: https://t.co/w9FOrOzhEs
Lisa Calvo of Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm wanted to find a better way to manage mud worms, a costly shellfish pest common to the coastal Northeast: https://t.co/IRKpLKCxFq
Iowa farmer Bob Recker challenged conventional thinking by asking whether wider corn rows could allow cover crops to thrive without sacrificing farm profitability: https://t.co/iWKHdcYnhB
This newly updated factsheet from SARE features sustainable methods for gastrointestinal nematode parasite control in sheep and goats. https://t.co/qX0eTNtTJs
Texas farmer Diana Padilla secured a Producer Grant from Southern SARE to investigate whether farm-grown moringa oleifera, a rapidly growing, drought resistant tree native to India, could serve as a practical and sustainable feed substitute: https://t.co/cfGsMEOZ67
Zachary Withers used a Western SARE Farmer/Rancher grant to examine whether applying compost could help his soil retain more rainfall, reduce erosion and improve forage production. https://t.co/wMrVBAhE66
SARE Outreach is seeking recommendations for information products that we can develop to extend practical, research-based innovations to improve the sustainability of American agriculture. Please submit your ideas by June 15th: https://t.co/q9rxsasC6x
"The goal of this project was very simple—work with farmers to figure out nitrogen fertilizer rates for dahlia, but it turned into an amazingly complex case.” https://t.co/B8Qjp8QWct
SARE’s newest bulletin provides guidance on using enterprise budgets, recordkeeping systems and partial budget analysis to evaluate management decisions for diversified farm operations: https://t.co/jKLwY7ob4P
Farmers across the United States are invited to share their insights on cover crops in the National Cover Crop Survey: https://t.co/DumCOEdyR8 @ctic_tweet@Better_Seed
SARE-funded research conducted by Peixin Fan may provide insights on microbiome-guided strategies that offer beef and dairy farmers new options for improving livestock resilience and profitability: https://t.co/r1YSuYQpMf
Tarping dramatically reduced weed cover (around 30% weed cover in tarped plots versus 90% in control plots) and doubled crop yields. https://t.co/MwKichP7dS
SARE has been around for nearly 40 years. The impacts that our grant and outreach programs have had on the sustainability of U.S. agriculture are because of one simple thing: Farmers and ranchers are at the center of everything we do. https://t.co/uDkQAjxEtM