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More farmers adopt conservation tillage - Farm Progress

The adoption of conservation tillage on wheat, corn, soybean and cotton acres in the US has increased over the past two decades.

Understanding why farmers adopt soil conservation tillage

As global populations continue to grow, there is a great need for more productive agriculture to meet food and fiber needs. The main challenge of agriculture ...

Largest farms most likely to adopt precision agriculture guidance ...

Largest farms most likely to adopt precision agriculture guidance systems. This is a bar graph showing the percent of farms that adopted auto- ...

An adoption spectrum for sustainable agriculture practices: A new ...

Like most other sustainable farming practices, cover crop adoption is a voluntary decision that occurs at the farmer and farm level (Roesch-McNally et al., 2017) ...

How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture | IFPRI

As populations grow and the climate crisis intensifies, sustainable agricultural practices are essential to mitigate negative environmental ...

Agtech: Breaking down the farmer adoption dilemma - McKinsey

North American farmers cite high costs (52 percent) and unclear ROI (40 percent) as their biggest challenges to adopting farm-management systems ...

How can farmers be convinced into switching to more sustainable ...

Great question! I've grown up on a farm that has adopted a lot of sustainable practices (strip-till/no-till, cover crops, GPS, GMOs, ...

Recent Trends in GE Adoption - USDA ERS

Herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops, which tolerate potent herbicides (such as glyphosate, glufosinate, and dicamba), provide farmers with a broad ...

Encouraging Farmer Adoption of Regenerative Agriculture Practices ...

Regenerative agriculture can help our food and agricultural systems become more resilient. Farmers and ranchers are facing escalating ...

Factors That Influence Farmer Adoption of Conservation Practices

Farmers with larger farm sizes and income, farmers with higher levels of formal education, younger farmers, and those with farmland more vulnerable to erosion ...

How Behavioral Science Can Help Cultivate Cover Crop Adoption ...

With more than 23 million acres of corn and soybeans sown each year, Iowa's farmers can make a big impact by adopting practices such as cover ...

What is Sustainable Agriculture? | Union of Concerned Scientists

... farming system that is more sustainable ... farmers qualify for crop insurance, and to help farmers adopt more sustainable practices.

Pervasive Disadoption Substantially Offsets New Adoption of Cover ...

The Heartland region largely coincides with the Corn Belt and is characterized by cash grains and cattle farms; it produces more than two-thirds of all U.S. ...

Climate Action on the Farm: Catalyzing a No-till Revolution in the US ...

By year three, most farmers are either purchasing or using co-op ... To incentivize farmers to adopt conservation agriculture, the USDA ...

NASS Survey: Farmers Adopt No-Till, Conservation Practices When ...

The most common conservation practice implemented was irrigation management and systems improvement, which 90% of growers said they implemented.

Encouraging Farmer Adoption of Regenerative Agriculture Practices ...

agricultural corporations have been looking to encourage greater adoption of regener- ative agriculture among farmers to address fundamental risks and ...

Factors Influencing Farmers' Adoption of Best Management Practices

More research is needed on uses of social media and market recognition approaches (such as certificate schemes and consumer labeling) to influence BMP adoption.

Farmer perspectives about cover crops by non-adopters - Frontiers

... more likely to adopt conservation practices. Thomson and colleagues find a positive association with cover crop adoption and the perception ...

"Factors Affecting the Farmers' Adoption Decision and Usage ...

Our findings indicated that farmers were more likely to practice no-till to control soil erosion, improve soil quality, increase yield, and earn profit from ...

Conservation intensification under risk: An assessment of adoption ...

We use a choice experiment to evaluate farmers' willingness to adopt more intensive in-field conservation practices.