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Abstract: Plastic mulch is widely used in agriculture, providing significant benefits. However, improper use can harm farmland ecosystems and threaten food security, especially in black soil regions, ...

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Small-scale producers say the proposed changes ... Pat Carmody has taken vegetables freshly picked from his one-tenth-of-a-hectare farm to the SAGE Farmers' Markets at Moruya on the New South ...

The classes will take place 6 – 8 p.m., Wednesdays, Jan. 22 – March 19, with additional field trips touring small-acreage farms and ranches in Washoe and Douglas counties. The program’s courses will ...

Members of Congress were to vote this week on whether to pass House Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution to fund the federal government and provide aid to American farmers. The year-end ...