Small pasture management from the NRCS

India's rice revolution

"In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?"

Recommended read regarding technique of seed type.
http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/12/fda-limits-arsenic-in-apple-juice/

The science of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in plant health

Why Arbuscular Mycorrhizas (Mycorrhizal Fungi ) can play such an important role in your plants. They are root multipliers.

Unlocking soil health

No-till ganening

You will see more and more of this at all levels of agriculture, whether it's in your back yard or a thousand acre farm. The basic premise is that you want to keep the soil bacteria and fungi alive at all times and that requires a live root system to feed them. There is quickly mounting evidence that this method increases yields and disease resistance while it decreases run-off and pooling - water is absorbed into the soil quicker with no-till. This requires less fertilizer and drain tile(on large farms), thus increasing a farm's profit. In a backyard garden setting, it means better veggies, less maintenance, and better soils for the next crop.