Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We hiked to the top of a hill overlooking a brown barn, tied a ribbon to the top of the tree we wanted, and hollered for a 12-year-old with a chainsaw presumably the farmers son to cut it down and drag it to a tractor. The post Which State Leads the Nation in Christmas Tree Production? appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. stems from burning, soil management, and gaseous emissions from both tractors and soil. a company that manages over 110,000 acres of farmland throughout the Central Valley. Agriculture’s contribution to PM2.5

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

Meanwhile, others are working in farm-support roles, as intermediaries between farm owners and product buyers and as administrators or business support staff for other farms. One of ALBA’s farmer partners driving a tractor. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Several policies were eliminated, including export subsidies, production quotas in dairy and price supports that were coupled to farmer income. The drop in production is coupled with declining rates of farmers themselves. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb.

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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It is crucial that you understand how to estimate forage DM availability per acre so you can build appropriately sized paddocks. It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. Consider Bale Grazing: Bale grazing can be a very powerful and effective way to create highly productive biological hotspots.

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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. But, starting the farm didn’t come easy at first.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

They can use drones to get aerial views without trekking through acres and acres. To proactively address these risks, it’s critical that software manufacturers in this sector prioritize security in their products and components. Hackers are jail-breaking tractors and they’re using ransomware to go after individual farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.

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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. The ongoing development of such projects comes as Maine is chasing both ambitious renewable energy goals and seeking to preserve agricultural lands for local food production.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms. But the Innovation Challenge is about more than just tractors.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2024

To make the best use of space, many farms will dispose of the blocks after a single flush, but each block is capable of several rounds of mushroom production. They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. The vast majority—95 percent—of the mushroom production in the U.S.

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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. Dual-use solar, also called agrisolar or agrivoltaics, pairs agricultural production and solar electric production on the same land.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. “We Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. the landscape is filled with life.

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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. But the crop duster did.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company, which already works with more than 20 of the leading permanent crop growers in the US, will use the funds to further scale its agricultural autonomous tractor and farming solutions, and expand into new markets worldwide based on its successful track record. The global market for autonomous tractors is due to reach $11.5B

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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. All the milking is done by hand, with each guy milking 20-25 cows.

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Agwired

MAY 28, 2024

8R Autonomous Tractor Farmers never have a shortage of work to do on any given day. Autonomy increases overall farm productivity, enabling more acres to be covered by extending the day or unlocking 24/7 operation without adding help. He says they leave with a better understand of what agriculture is all about.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For a long time – until production controls were lifted in the mid-2000s – tobacco was a critical crop for smaller-scale farmers. Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. We also raised burley tobacco until I was a junior in high school.

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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

To meet consumer demands for sustainably produced food In the past, knowing where food products came from (country of origin labeling) was one of the top concerns for many consumers. Now, the concern is not only where a food product came from but also how its ingredients were grown.

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Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), a 41-year-old agriculture conservation non-profit, is pleased to announce its role as a partner in Farmers for Soil Health (FSH), a new program devoted to increasing the usage of cover crops on corn and soybean acres. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The label can cover crops, livestock and dairy products, and the industry is huge—worth about $62 billion last year. For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Take mass balance fraud: A producer gets an organic certificate for 100 acres of grain and begins selling grain for those 100 acres.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre). For larger scale, look at the Netafim Flex NET line of products.

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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. We sell lamb—that’s our prime agricultural product that we sell,” says Jones.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

As far as commercial production of corn and soy, it’s probably not viable anymore,” Zander said. 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. How can we turn this into an advantage?”

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 18.6 Total sales of Ag tractors dropped 14.1 BRANDT , a leading agriculture retailer and manufacturer of specialty agriculture products, has again helped Alex Harrell set another world record soybean yield. bushels per acre. bushels per acre. percent year-to-date.

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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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World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Crop insurance, seed & chemical, biotech, AgTech, cooperatives, and other companies all use farm data to improve their existing services and offer new products. The Leaf team expects to use these funds to expand their suite of product offerings and partnerships.

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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. And it also helps with weed suppression, which is always a challenge in organic production.” Tractor laying plastic mulch ahead of the growing season.

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Agwired

JANUARY 24, 2024

World Ag Expo provides a platform for networking, education, and business in one of the most productive ag counties in the United States. Case IH , a global leader in agriculture equipment, is recognized as a 2023 Good Design Award Winner for the Farmall 75C Electric and the Steiger 715 Quadtrac tractors.

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). Gains in the U.S. market were led by 100+hp 2WD units, up 25.4 percent, closely followed by 4WD units up 21.9

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

But in recent decades, farmers, ranchers, and preservationists are individually, and in some cases collectively, working together to save rare and endangered animal species by using their products to feed, nourish, educate and clothe people. Wagyu beef also has a more heart- and cholesterol-friendly balance of fats than other beef products.

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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.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This minimizes the use of equipment during the winter months and distributes nutrients to improve forage production and soil health in subsequent years. Because of this, he still needs to bring his tractor into the pasture weekly to lift and unwrap the bales.

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Agwired

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Agriculture unveiled a geospatial product called Crop Sequence Boundaries (CSB) that offers public access to national-scale visual crop rotation data for the first time. The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) announced a new hire in the Soybean Production department.

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