Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. When it’s time to process the birds, he uses the whole animal, including the feet, bones and organs—leaving nothing to be sent to the landfill.

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Poultry Farming Farming Processing 128

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land. The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 96

Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. For a couple of years, my mom was married to a man named Tim who lived on 40 acres of farmland.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 98

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic. The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organic farming is a practice that emphasizes natural processes, ecological balance and the conserving of resources. But the process to become certified as an organic farming operation is a lengthy one. Then, once farms have been certified, there’s a yearly testing process, which dives deep into the farm’s yield and audits its books.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Most commercially available fertilizers rely on synthetic nitrogen produced through the Haber-Bosch process , which accounts for 1.4% In his case, this means a team of Suffolk Punch draft horses, but the same apparatus can be hitched to a tractor. You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said.

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Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 80

ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Solar panels have been installed over about 11 acres of wild blueberry plants in the first project in Maine to collocate solar electric production with wild blueberry cultivation. However, he didn’t want to see acres of wild blueberries destroyed in the process of constructing a solar array. megawatts of DC power.

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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. Without regular rainfall, salt from natural processes and irrigation water sticks around and builds up, threatening plant growth.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. Across the country, millions of acres of farmland have been lost over the last 30 years, due to development and other forms of land conversion. From there, the law can clarify the process of how to permit acceptable activities. “I

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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. So we’re a little more constrained.”

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Farming Farming Construction Agriculture 115

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

“I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. Solar Grazing Site Specifications and Management The site is in a 15-acre array that produces 5 MW of DC and 3.375 MW of AC, enough to power approximately 1,100 homes.

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Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

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. Mulching is the process of covering the earth around a plant with something to help it grow. Tractor laying plastic mulch ahead of the growing season.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 98

World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Leaf, the unified farm data API and largest farm data processing platform, announced the close of a $11.3 Before Leaf, these companies attempted to build massive data infrastructure to manage and reconcile all of the weather, irrigation, imagery, tractor, and other data they were collecting.

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Agriculture Agriculture Technology Production 40

Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

Rebecca was recently notified by the State Water Board that she may be prohibited from pumping water from a well on the three acres that she leases. Fines for violating the order are as high as $1,000 per day of violation and $2,500 for each acre-food of water diverted. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.”

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Family Farming Farming Farming Water Rights 52

Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

There are still a lot of questions that science is working out—like how exactly the whole process works and what sort of impact different soil microbes have, but there does seem to be potential in carbon farming for helping mitigate climate change. In 2019, it was over my head while I was sitting on the tractor!

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Cultivation Farming Farming Crop 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

They join a growing list of animals in the process of disappearing forever. American Milking Devons Make Great Cheese and Milk, Work the Land American Milking Devons were the “trucks and tractors” of American farms before the advent of the internal combustion engine. Sheila Patinkin. Photography courtesy of Vermont Wagyu.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 81

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County. They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Inspired by the transformative experience he had on the land through growing food, he chose to work towards building opportunities for other African Americans to do the same, co-founding the African American Farmers of California 16-acre Demonstration Farm. But through cooperation, determination and community, they pulled through.

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Food Farming Farming Ecology 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. But we feel that it’s not just the better product that’s important—it’s a better process to get it to people.”

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2020, he went back to northern Iowa and joined his father in farming 500 acres of corn and soybeans. Why It Matters Neonic-treated seeds are planted on approximately 90 million acres of corn fields and more than 40 million acres of soybean fields each year. This is true. has barely budged in its approach.

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Seeding Pesticide Yield Acre 145

UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 23, 2025

Research has demonstrated that fear of humiliation or rejection is the greatest motivator in most of our decision making and enters our thought process before logic and reason. We make the greatest progress by applying most of the principles to most of the acres most of the time (once we are comfortable and confident with our management).

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Agriculture Agriculture Ecology Tractor 83

Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Putting Money in Rural America Speaking inside a barn on the 81-acre Dutch Creek Farms property, Biden talked about his efforts to enhance rural quality of life, mostly through an agricultural lens. Our dads aren’t able to jump on a tractor and lend help when we need it, because they’re in Washington [state].”

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Ruralism Family Farming Farming Farming 101

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

They provide feed for the livestock whose meat and dairy make fast-food chains and deli counters hum, and their derivatives provide a huge proportion of the fat, sweeteners, and other additives that make processed treats so hard to resist. Most of that came in the form of fat added to processed food.

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Food Crop Processing Tractor 59

Civil Eats

MARCH 21, 2025

Brittenburg grows organic vegetables and raises livestock across 200 acres, and he needs help to shake off the winter and get things moving again. Farmers in Limbo Matthew Fitzgerald grows corn, soybeans, wheat, and beans on 3,000 acres in McLeod County, Minnesota. Matthew Fitzgerald in a tractor in Minnesota.

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Farming Farming Processing Acre 141

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

He delights in every tool and accoutrement of the cropping, curing, and baling process: every trailer, every sawed-off school bus that pulls those trailers, every conveyor belt, every one of his 200 small curing barns. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C.,

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 89

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest.

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