Agwired

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bushel , an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology for the agricultural supply chain, announces a new mobile app and website portal available to all producers selling grain to ADM. million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For Eaton’s two acres of vegetable crops, he pays about $1,400 per year. Small producers, like Eaton, say many parts of the process don’t scale down to small producers, especially within questions about their supply chain. “We But inspectors look at the books and realize the yield sold is much closer to 200 acres.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

announced the establishment of its new forage division and the introduction of an advanced evaluation system, designed to amplify the value delivered to Every Farm, Every Crop, Every Acre. Heavy duty row crop tractor unit sales continued to increase in the U.S., while overall farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A fourth-generation small Midwestern farmer, Hemmes works more than 900 acres entirely on her own year in and year out. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Photography via Shutterstock. She also hopes to see farmers tapping into their inherent flexibility.

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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. Or, “consumer trends,” which drive the whole tractor in big box grocery, may change. It’s not gonna be the last.”

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. But we aren’t set up to grow our entire 40 acres of tillable fields in carrots or potatoes. How can we create shorter supply chains, both to and from the farm?

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