Researchers found that corn grown in a corn/soybean/wheat rotation and with a mixture of three cover crops had yields 100% higher than corn grown in monoculture. The wheat and soybean crops also ...

Kura clover, a unique perennial legume that survives all year round, can harness underutilized temporal and spatial niches of the monoculture corn system. As a legume, Kura clover also fixes inert ...

Abstract Western corn rootworm is one of the most dangerous pests of maize, and both the larvae and the imagoes thereof may cause significant damage to the plants. The options of controlling these ...

Heart of Agave How a renegade optometrist is defying corporations and saving Mexican farms—with the finest tequila you’ll ever taste. Ted Genoways September/October 2015 issue ...

This is to say that over 60% of the land in Illinois is in a monoculture, whether that is corn, soy, or wheat. The way we have traditionally farmed has not focused on maintaining biodiversity in ...

It shows a field of corn, a farmer and a businessman in discussion, and two ears of corn, the second bigger than the first. System level A monoculture is a space or a process that one creates because ...

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Rotating crops, conserving soil nutrients and deploying other strategies to “diversify” agriculture all at the same time can deliver major benefits for the environment and people alike—including ...

To protect what legally remains as their land, which is today surrounded by monoculture plantations, mostly cotton, the reserve in 2005 became the first Colombian territory declared free from GMOs.

Along the way, soy and corn monoculture plantations contrast with the wilderness of protected Indigenous areas. Raposa Serra Sol is one of the largest Indigenous territories in Brazil, with an area of ...