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If NJ urban fringe farmers manage or set aside land for native pollinator habitat, are they likely to gain any yield benefits?
Sustainable Farming on the Urban Fringe
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station | Rutgers Cooperative Extension
These newsletters provide practical insights for farmers, communities, and policy makers looking to maintain thriving, healthy, durable farms in New Jersey's densely packed urban fringe.
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If NJ urban fringe farmers manage or set aside land for native pollinator habitat, are they likely to gain any yield benefits?
This month in Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe – High Farmland Value, Low Farmland Rent: Unintended Consequences, we explore how extraordinary high NJ cropland values became coupled with surprisingly low cost farmland rents. [Read more…]
This month in Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe:
First Generation Farmer of the Future – 7,500 acres conventional & organic cash grains by cell phone.
We dig deep into the nature of ag entrepreneurship, and how to profit using a non-judgmental approach to both conventional and organic production by supplying different markets. [Read more…]
For over a year we’ve been talking about creating a program that would help Ag in the Middle farms better cope with the special problems of farming on the urban fringe. What’s the rub?
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Jack Rabin, Professor Emeritus. Former Associate Director – Farm Programs, Rutgers NJAES. Former SARE State Coordinator for ag professionals training opportunities. Lectures on Sustainable Agriculture and the positive relationships between private property rights, resources conservation, and economic prosperity.
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