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The Sharp Edge: Building sprayer tender trailers, with Shawridge Farms

Real Agriculture

Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont., So how does one guy get over all those acres? Read More Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. He gets a lot of help from the.

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Talking tile drainage ROI with Larry Cowan

Real Agriculture

When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? Cowan has been retiling an average of 150 acres each year for the past eight years. In this field, which was tiled… Read More When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? Cowan has been retiling an average of 150 acres each year for the past eight years.

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California Agriculture Could Use an Ancient History Lesson

The Equation

When I was an agricultural engineering student, I took a class called History of Agriculture. I loved that class, in part, because I love agriculture, but also because I love ancient history. Agriculture started there about 10,000 years ago, and about 5,500 years ago they invented the cuneiform writing system.

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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. At the time, he was the highest Black officer in the US Armed Forces, and California’s San Joaquin Valley was portrayed as an Eden for agriculture.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

And its early success has conservationists and lawmakers hoping it can become a model for local, state, and federal farm conservation programs, and in the process serve as a way of disrupting the corn-bean-feedlot machine that dominates Midwestern agriculture. farmland is regularly cover cropped. Since 2016, the U.S.

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From Symptoms to Solutions: Addressing the Underlying Causes of Water Quality Degradation – Part 4

UnderstandingAg

Fall application of nutrients for a cash crop the following year makes no sense from a plant nutrition standpoint. Living ground cover is especially critical on acres receiving manure from confinement operations. This is hands-down the best, most profitable use case for cover crops. Most N demand is in midsummer.