Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Brandon Davis Brandon helps manage a 12,000-acre operation alongside his father, running a small cow-calf herd of 50 head. He oversees cattle care, mechanical work on equipment, and plays a key role in planting, harvesting, and managing seasonal help.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

If a nutrient map has dozens of tiny polygons each with a different rate, the sprayer or spreader is doing constant changes the risk of mistakes or mechanical issues rises. More zones mean more chances of equipment mis-calibration, prescription file errors, or simply management overwhelm.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. So, we metaphorically waged war against the weeds for about eight weeks, using mainly mechanical methods and also some hand weeding, not wanting to eliminate them, but to make sure that the crop predominated.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Women have continued farming in small-scale and traditional systems that involve a lot of manual labor and require physical strength.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Socially disadvantaged producers’ enrollment by acreage also fluctuated, accounting for a high of 12% of total CSP-funded acres in FY2019 and FY2022 to a low of 8% in FY2020. This highlights the need for stronger support mechanisms and outreach efforts to ensure that limited resource producers can benefit from CSP.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon , with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that. Page 397) Manmade Soil Acidification The processes listed above naturally take a long time to play out and find an equilibrium.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, it advocates for more capital-intensive automation and mechanization in line with the longstanding “bigger is better” agriculture policy of the past fifty years. Envisioning farming as hyper-specialized, where specializations only converge in a marketable product, misses critical aspects of farming knowledge.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Newton suggests this model could be “more open to innovation” than practice-based certifications, because an outcome such as carbon sequestration could be achieved through any number of mechanisms. million acres of organic certified land in the US. I can load my truck up with coal dust and spread it all over my fields.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Commodity productivity per acre is down across the board, driving prices up. But numerous exhibits had drones to fly on chemicals and AI mechanisms to adjust chemical fertilizer. The sense among attendees was that chemical, industrialized models are running out of steam.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. Gerhardt, now 66, farms organic hay on his own 10-acre field in Mohawk, NY. On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

the Lopes provided a great demonstration of the unique equipment involved in the establishment of the rice (rice flat tray machine) and the transplanter machine (used to mechanically transplant the rice plugs into the field) allowing the attendees a great visual of the process and commitment involved in establishing their rice paddy fields.

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Caff

MARCH 15, 2022

Hours for machinery and mechanical equipment operation should be extended to 7:00 pm, including weekends and holidays (or to the zone’s existing noise regulations). Increase the number of hens allowed to 20 per acre. Community Gardens should be supported in all zones. COTATI CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS: John C.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Viva Farms is a nonprofit that helps new and limited-resource farmers with access to land, equipment and more, and this site is home to 18 incubator farms and a half-acre student farm. There are no consistently accessible mechanisms for sustainably disposing of plastic mulch film at the end of its life.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 30, 2023

Instead of beautiful green trees, I saw thousands of acres of dead, scraggly trees. The darling of the industry is a drug drip—the mechanical view. I just spent a couple of days in and around Orlando, Florida, the heart of Florida’s orange production country. Just a few years ago, Florida produced 240 million 90-lb. crates of oranges.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields. Tilling 1,000 acres three times in the spring takes a lot of time. billion sales ; Chevron posts a 36.5

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

million seeds per acre, depending on factors like soil quality and local conditions. The total nitrogen requirement for wheat can vary, but it’s often in the range of 60 to 120 pounds per acre. Adequate levels of phosphorus and potassium are typically maintained at 15-30 pounds per acre of P2O5 and K2O, respectively.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

percent of farms offering both agritourism and direct-to-consumer sales (such as through U-pick, farm stands, and farmers’ markets) were under 100 acres. They invested in a mechanical harvester a few years ago. “In The majority of those farms are small, however— 63.3 The term “agritourism” was first identified in the U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. Practices we have seen work well include: Keeping slurry application rates to 3000-4000 gal/acre/application. Positive impacts can be made with just one or two adaptive grazing events per year on a given acre.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

To bring farmers true performance, Switch is building, fine-tuning, and validating every step in the mechanism of action of biological nitrogen fertilizer production. What have been the pivotal “aha” moments that shaped this strategy? Science first. Unit economics also first.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

Industrial Agriculture and the Relationship to Farm Consolidation Industrial agriculture refers to a large-scale farming system that emphasizes high output and efficiency through modern technology and mechanization. The topic of farm consolidation is closely tied to this term, as one typically leads to more of the other. billion in 2022.

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UnderstandingAg

MAY 8, 2023

The mechanical disturbance of soil through forms of tillage destroys soil aggregate structure, leaving the collapsed soil structure vulnerable to erosion, which sets the stage for wind and water erosion. This is important because sand, silt and clay particles bound together into aggregates are not prone to erosion from wind or rain.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MARCH 18, 2021

Gates now owns 242,000 acres of cropland which is far different than the rugged range land and prairie ecosystems Turner loved and wanted to restore. A mechanical, manipulative, Machiavellian approach to the living world. He wants nothing to do with animals. He wants nothing to do with perennials.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Center pivots are also used on larger areas than other types of systems - approximately 20 acres (8 hectares) per machine and up to 1,000 acres (405 hectares) with multiple machines running at once. Once everything has been laid out properly, it shouldn't take more than half an hour per acre foot (.5

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Grow Dat is a seven-acre urban farm with 13 full-time adult staff, and a rotating crew of teenagers who work there after school. But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Photo by Minh Ha/Verite News. “I

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marsha enrolled in the Horticulture Certificate program through Olds College, and they got started in 2003, planting 5 acres of Saskatoon bushes. The following year, they planted another 5 acres, and so on. The harvester has a vibrating mechanism that shakes the berries off the branches and collects them onto a conveyor.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Such promises included 40 acres and a mule , the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. The Southern Homestead Act was enacted to redistribute 46 million acres of land to formerly enslaved people. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Launched by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), the Innovation Challenge solicited innovators from all backgrounds–farmers, students, entrepreneurs–all with the goal of shifting focus away from big ag and towards empowering the greatest number of farms, even those operating on just an acre or two.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

SFT CEO Patrick Holden and his wife Becky Holden farm 300 acres in West Wales and produce a raw milk cheddar called Hafod with the milk from their herd of Ayrshire cows. We farm 300 acres, and each field has its own unique identity, character and distinctiveness.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Eventually, they were growing food on 1-acre of land spread out on multiple plots throughout the city. Ryan’s land base increased from 1-acre’s worth of scattered plots in Edmonton to 6-acres, consolidated in one field. “It He ended up having to till under several acres worth of crops.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

PepsiCo wants to spread regenerative agricultural practices across seven million acres, while General Mills recently reported that 115,000 acres are currently enrolled in its regenerative programme (the target is 1 million acres by 2030). Interest in this space is certainly “heating up,” says Andy Zynga , CEO at EIT Food.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the latest practices being tried in Lafayette County and other parts of the state is “planting green,” or planting corn or soybeans directly into a growing cover crop (often a small grain like rye or wheat) without killing it by herbicide or mechanical means first. Once again, it’s a learning curve,” he said. “We Work with us.

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The Counter

MAY 17, 2022

The 5,000-acre reservation is nearby, and the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources does restoration work along Ohop Creek. What mechanism is at work between 6PPD-quinone and the coho? This land is the ancestral home to the Nisqually Tribe, which currently has more than 650 enrolled members. Is it in the brain or the bloodstream?

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