Browse by Topic: Adaptation Practices

A summary of agricultural IPM methods, with a list of additional resources for tracking and managing pests and learning more about IPM for farms.

These economic tools and resources focus on silvopasture, irrigation and tarping. Resources were designed for small, medium, and beginning farmers in in New England to address challenges in adapting to a changing climate.

The Cover Crop Selector tool provides a user friendly way for growers to get cover crop recommendations depending on their location, goals, and cover crop window.

This book helps growers and advisors manage crop rotations to improve soil health, control pests, and build profitable farms that support farm families.

Mulching is one of the simplest ways to increase soil organic matter, retain moisture, and suppress weeds in an agricultural system. Here, we share a few case studies about effective mechanization strategies for cut-and-carry mulching from participating farmers.

This recording features a talk by Sara Keleman, who shares current data exploring climate trends and projected impacts on agriculture. At minute 1:10:10 Sara reviews several tools available for monitoring weather and implementing adaptive practices.

In this article, we highlight four case studies from farms of varying sizes and production goals to showcase the opportunities and challenges of adopting living aisle systems.

The Pest Report is a weekly or biweekly report summarizing current and emerging pests, their biology, crop impacts, and recommended management strategies. Short discussions include pests and diseases that are present and recommended solutions.

Serves as a gateway to invasive species information from federal, state, local, and international sources.

The New England Vegetable Management Guide contains a wealth of information about vegetable production including general cultural practices and crop specific recommendations. Updated with new varieties and chemical label information every two years.

Weather and science driven integrated pest management. A site that links data from weather stations across the Northeast. Includes forecasts by crop or by pest. Especially useful for orchards, but there are vegetable pest models as well.

An article on a small-farm's approach to no-till practices, including tarping, mulching paths and beds, intercropping, use of plastic mulch and weed mats, flail mowing, and more.

When considering soil health practices for row crop farmers it's essentially to understand how each practice can alter the farm's bottom line. This decision making tool helps corn and soy producers simulate the financial impacts of adopting different soil health practices.

Diversifying into forest products is a good strategy to spread out climate related risk for any farm, but it's not without it's own challenges and strategies that need to be understood. This guide is a great starting point for any farm business considering farming the woods.

An hour-long webinar about the various invasive species growers might come into contact with in the face of climate change as well as how to deal with them in the most efficient manner.

IPM pest and disease modeling and forecasting. Includes pest-specific data and other factors such as growing-degree days.