Acres U.S.A., The Voice of Eco-Agriculture, February 2025 | Issue #644, Copyright 2025, 67 pages. Become an Acres U.S.A. Eco-Farmer Member here! Contents February 2025 • Issue #644 Photo: Winter Pasture Photo caption: Henry Farms in Viroqua, Wisconsin — winter pasture management follows the decisions made months earlier. On the cover: (Phil Roeder, Flickr) — We hope that this seasonal time of rest will provide you time to recover and to consider your farm management strategies for the coming growing season. FEATURES Restore Your Farm’s Natural CapitalUnderstanding how productive your land once was will help you make holistic management decisions to benefit generations to come BY SIOBHAN GRIFFIN Bye Bye, Sweet Potato PieSweet potatoes need not be merely for Thanksgiving dinner — Dr. Janice Bohac is developing varieties that can produce more than four times more ethanol per acre than cornINTERVIEW WITH DR. JANICE BOHAC Ecological SuccessionUnderstanding disturbance and succession helps us as eco-farmers to use our management to “steer” our site into a direction of health, fertility and stability BY MARK SHEPARD Long-Term Land ManagementA systems approach to beef farming is the best way I know to enable long-term success in managing landBY TAYLOR HENRY DEPARTMENTS VIEW FROM THE COUNTRYMonthly musings from Acres U.S.A.’s editor OPINIONThe OODA LoopUtilizing a simple process of observing, orienting, deciding and acting can help farmers make better decisions every dayBY JORDAN GREEN ECO-UPDATENews in brief on developments in agronomic science REGEN AGRONOMYConventional Fear Meets Regenerative WisdomAdvice for conventional growers to weather unpredictable changes — whether in climate or in regulationsBY JEFFREY KLEYPAS REGEN ECONOMICSVoice to DatabaseYour farm records can be kept simply, via voice messageBY KIRSTEN SIMMONS INTERVIEWHow to Generate Experience FasterFarm and landscape designer Darren Doherty speaks with John Kempf about principles of design, emphasizing management changes over infrastructure changes, and how to learn from experience in a richer way REVIEWS MARKETPLACE CLASSIFIEDS ECO-MEETINGS ECO-GRAPHIC Become an Acres U.S.A. Eco-Farmer Member here!
