Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.”

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower. With over a decade of experience, Cole has treated thousands of acres using herds of sheep and goats for ecological enhancement and fire hazard reduction across California. Why is Cole Building It?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

And while each of those uses could provide revenue potential for mushroom farms, the expanding piles of spent substrate also represent a mounting logistical challenge. “If They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Solar developers and agriculture researchers from the University of Maine have been studying the issue for two years at this 12-acre, four-megawatt project in Rockport. Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to the researchers, between 2011 and 2017 the number of visible salt patches almost doubled and about 20,000 acres of farmland turned into marsh. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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