On Saturday May 9, the Kansas Rural Center will hold a “Women in Farming” workshop, which will focus on what women farmers and landowners need to know to make good business, financial and legal decisions. The women-only workshop will be…
Farmers interested in planting cover crops to improve soil health now have an updated and expanded resource in the second edition of the Midwest Cover Crops Field Guide. The pocket guide, released Monday (Sept. 22), is produced by Purdue University and…
(From National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, July 18, 2013) In late June, new guidelines were released by USDA pertaining to cover crop management and crop insurance. The new guidelines came about as a result of concerns expressed by many farmers who…
NEWS RELEASE – October 4, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More information, contact Mary Fund, KRC, at (785) 873-3431 or Billy Beck, KFS, at (785) 532-3308, or wjbeck@k-state.edu DROUGHT PROOFING OUR SOILS: THE BENEFITS OF COVER CROPS AND PROFITING FROM…
Presentation given on November 19, 2011 at the 2011 Sustainable Agriculture Conference: Options, Opportunities and Optimism: Cultivating Our Food and Farm Future.
The Kansas Rural Center has published a series of Management Guides on a variety of topics. They are listed below. All can be downloaded in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). Most have a very modest file size, but some…
www.rodaleinstitute.org Rodale has an extensive publication and resource directory on all things organic, including organizations and research. They conduct research projects in organic farming practices including No-Till in Organic. Rodale published the online farm magazine the The New Farm which…
