Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone. “It’s that things can go wrong.

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Grain Farming Farming Food 132

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal. We are also trying to raise a seed round in 6 months for further growth.”

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Production Science Acre Soil Science 52

RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Together, Harold and his brother, Chris, and his father, Gerald, work collaboratively as partners to manage 5000 acres of irrigated land producing potatoes — varieties of chippers, russets, and red Mozart potatoes — along with other field crops, including hard red spring wheat, winter wheat, barley, sunflowers, green peas, seed canola.

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Farming Farming Crop Manure 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yet Hartman and his family manage to work less and make the same income on one third of an acre—the renowned Clay Bottom Farm —as they did on an acre. On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 121