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Myth Buster: Can Cover Crops Work in Every Climate?

February 23, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: NRDC

Even in states where the growing season is a mere four-and-a-half months long, cover crops can help farmers meet specific on-farm goals that they cannot achieve just by having cash crops in their rotation.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Jan. 6, 2023

January 6, 2023

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Salford Group.

PepsiCo's Biggest Challenge: Winning Over Millions of Farmers to Regenerative Ag

September 23, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Reuters

In this article from Reuters, Oliver Balch writes, "PepsiCo is known for many things: soda pop, Super Bowl ads, its decades-long rivalry with The Coca-Cola Company, to name but a few. Now the $235 billion valued company has a challenge of a different order of magnitude on its hands."

PepsiCo, ADM Announce Agreement to Support Up to 2 Million Acres of Regenerative Ag

September 19, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Business Wire

The long-term agreement will initially enroll corn, soy and wheat farmers across Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska, with the opportunity for future expansion, to increase visibility across the value chain and integrate a range of multi-year farmer-first regenerative agriculture initiatives, including cover crops, reduced tillage, nutrient management, diverse rotations, and responsible pesticide use.

Regenerative Ag in Mexico Boosts Yields While Restoring Nature

August 29, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Mongabay

An alliance of conservationists, farmers and cattle ranchers in Chiapas, Mexico, is working to incorporate 6.2 million acres of land into sustainable management schemes, focusing on soil health and aiming to restore and reforest 3.5 million acres.

General Mills Urges Collaboration on Regenerative Ag

August 25, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Baking Business

General Mills, Inc. and Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) unveiled a multi-year roadmap to scale Eco-Harvest, ESMC’s market program that rewards farmers for beneficial environmental outcomes from regenerative agriculture.

Bayer Launches Digital App to Connect Farmers, Companies on Regen

August 23, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

ForGround digital platform is now live and available for farmers and companies in the United States. The company plants to expand the app globally.

PepsiCo Check-In: 345K out of 7M Acres Using Regen Ag, Emissions Reductions a Mixed Bag

August 19, 2022 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: AFN

In 2021, PepsiCo set a 2030 target goal of adopting regenerative agriculture practices across 7 million acres, which is about equal to all of the land PepsiCo uses globally to grow crops and ingredients for its products.

Hormel, Target Investing $1.7 Million in Minnesota Regenerative Ag Project

July 13, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health, Economics

Source: The Nature Conservancy

Collectively, Hormel Foods and Target will provide $1.7 million for farmers to participate in the pilot and adopt practices such as cover cropping, reduced tillage and nutrient management. The goal is to enroll up to 50,000 acres.

[Podcast] Dave Brandt on Lessons Learned from 45 Years of Cover Cropping

March 31, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

For this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by La Crosse Seed, contributing editor Martha Mintz chats with Dave about some of those benefits as well as the lessons he’s learned in his 45 years of using cover crops.