Rejuvenating soils and nature through regenerative farming

Better productivity has come at expense of ecosystems but new and old practices show their vibrancy can be restored ...
Frontiers

Toward Advanced, Intensive, and Precision Cropping Systems: Frontiers in Cultivation Strategies for Regulating Crop Physiology and Ecology

Global agriculture stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual imperative of ensuring food security and quality amidst ...
Beyond Pesticides

Organic Farming Competes with Chemical-Intensive Practices on Resilience, Input Costs, and Profitability

(Beyond Pesticides, September 23, 2025) A study published in European Journal of Agronomy, based on a 16-year, long-term experiment (LTE), finds that organic crops (cotton production with wheat and ...
EurekAlert!

Farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality

Soil health hinges more on how agricultural land is managed than whether the farming system is organic or conventional, according to a new study showing that farms with more intensive management have ...
Beyond Pesticides

Organic Grain Systems Lap Chemical-Intensive Practices in Critical Soil Health Markers

(Beyond Pesticides, May 14, 2025) Research by the Rodale Institute, Ohio State University, and Tennessee State University, published in Soil Science of America Journal, documents that organic grain ...
Phys.org

Study highlights profitability as a key barrier to biodiversity-friendly farming

Study region and experimental setup. Twenty-one pairs of grassland (green) and sunflower (yellow) fields were selected across the study region in Southwest France. Study landscapes (500 m radius ...