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Manage Weeds Videos Featured Imagewww.sare.org resources manage-weeds-on-your-farm-video-series

Manage Weeds on Your Farm Video Series

Learn more with the book Manage Weeds on Your Farm. In this series, experienced farmers from around the country talk about how they have found success controlling weeds by following...

transitioning to organic production guidewww.sare.org resources transitioning-to-organic-production

Transitioning to Organic Production

Farmers and ranchers decide to pursue organic certification for many personal, financial and environmental reasons. This publication introduces you to the requirements of the USDA National Organic Program and outlines...

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Common Ground Podcast

Welcome to Common Ground from the University of Georgia's Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. Sustainable agriculture stories from the Southern USA, introducing farmers, ranchers, and those who support...

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FAMACHA

FAMACHA is a diagnostic tool to help farmers identify parasite infection in small ruminants, such as sheep and goats. The tool is a chart that matches eyelid color to anemia...

Building Soils for Better Crops Coverwww.sare.org resources building-soils-for-better-crops

Building Soils for Better Crops

The 4th edition of Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management. It provides step-by-step information on soil-improving practices as well as in-depth background—from what...

southern.sare.org resources making-fish-waste-compost

Making Fish Waste Compost

Dale Snyder, co-owner of Sweetgrass Garden Co-op on Johns Island, S.C., discusses the process used to make fish waste compost. The co-op conducted a Southern SARE-funded study over the summer...

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Case Study: Kentucky Mobile Poultry Processing Unit

A case study and accompanying video of Kentucky's Mobile Poultry Processing Unit to aid small farmers who want to raise poultry for market, but have nowhere to process their birds....

Controlling Honey Bee Diseases Fact Sheet Coverwww.sare.org resources a-sustainable-approach-to-controlling-honey-bee-diseases-and-varroa-mites

A Sustainable Approach to Controlling Honey Bee Diseases and Varroa Mites

Geographic Adaptability: Relevant to beekeepers throughout the US and Canada. European honey bee with a Varroa mite on its back. Honey bees are the world's most economically valuable insect pollinator...

Cover page of Smart Water Use bulletinwww.sare.org resources smart-water-use-on-your-farm-or-ranch

Smart Water Use on Your Farm or Ranch

As producers throughout the nation grow increasingly concerned about water scarcity, farmers, ranchers and agricultural educators are beginning to explore new, conservation-oriented approaches to water use. They are managing soil to...

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Videos from the Field

SARE, in partnership with Cooking Up A Story, has produced a series of how-to videos showcasing production and marketing practices used by some of the nation’s most successful sustainable farmers...

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Integrating Legumes with Grass to Improve Forage-Livestock Systems

Over the past century, agriculture on the Texas High Plains has evolved into a $20 billion-plus industry centered largely on cotton and finishing beef cattle in feedlots. Agriculture was made...

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The Performance of Cover Crops in Minimally Tilled Forage-based Grazing Systems

Texas plays a major role in agriculture, especially in the beef industry. Cattle production is crucial to the Texas High Plains agriculture community, but production systems that jeopardize the sustainability...

Screenshot of an animated farm landscapewww.sare.org resources what-is-soil-health

What is Soil Health?

Why is soil health so important? More and more, producers are understanding that healthy soils are more productive and lead to healthier crops. Dig into this interactive infographic to learn...

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Cover Crop Economics

Farmers around the country are planting cover crops on millions of acres to protect and improve the soil, and the more that farmers use cover crops, the more they value...

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Investing in the Future of Agriculture: How SARE Supports Farmer-Driven Sustainability

"One of the precepts of sustainability is that farmers learn from other farmers. Growers are the ones that can tweak and understand a practice and say, 'This really works this...

Cultivating Climate Resilience cover imagewww.sare.org resources cultivating-climate-resilience-on-farms-and-ranches

Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches

Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches outlines the new challenges that changing weather patterns pose in agriculture throughout the United States, and what you can do to make your...

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Biomass Energy Training Curriculum

The University of Tennessee, Tennessee State University, eXtension.org and USDA-Rural Development developed training curriculum on biomass energy for Extension agents and local officials so that they may deliver this information...

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Sustainable Production and Use of On-Farm Energy

High and fluctuating energy costs have caused economic challenges for many of the country’s farmers and ranchers. For this reason, more producers are seeking alternative energy sources to improve their...

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Special Topics with Cover Crops and Soil Health

Session recordings on this page include: Organic and Specialty Crops Grazing Cover Crops Soil Health Policy Issues Organic and Specialty Crops Weed control in organic soybeans is notoriously difficult. Clean...

Cover Crops field tripwww.sare.org resources organic-production

Organic Production

In 1992, there were 3,587 organic operations in the United States. Almost 25 years later, that number has more than quintupled to 24,650 certified organic operations as of 2016. What...

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