ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. Not to mention that no livestock owner wants to see their animals covered in mud and manure.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A refrigerated tank pulled by a tractor comes to the field at the end of milking and hauls all the milk to the farm’s bulk tank where it is picked up by a dairy processor. Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. And goop to put in confinement hog facilities to make the lagoon manure less toxic.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dumping manure in public spaces, hurling eggs at government buildings, blocking major roads —the European farmers who have taken to the streets to challenge free trade policies sure know how to raise a ruckus. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. The experience led him to start learning about regenerative agriculture and the benefits raising chickens could have for the soil fertility and sustainability of his nine acres.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Because of this, he still needs to bring his tractor into the pasture weekly to lift and unwrap the bales. The data showed that the manure and residue left after bale grazing were worth $610 of nutrients per acre. Conard talked about the lay of the land and the factors he’s had to consider, especially slope and wind exposure.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. Grown in a combination of manure and straw, they produce a distinct kind of spent substrate that is also used as compost, though it is a very different material from specialty mushroom substrate, with fewer applications. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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