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Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

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. I felt the tractor tilting over,” Langford recalls. “I In the end, the tractor landed on its left side; a roll bar above the seat prevented it from turning upside down.

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Monarch Tractor Announces $133M Series C Funding

World Agri-Tech

With this latest raise, the company behind the world’s first fully electric, driver-optional, smart tractor cements its position as a leader in the space. Monarch has quickly become a powerhouse within the agricultural space as an off-road electric vehicles (EV) and autonomous vehicles (AV) category leader.

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Hurricane Helene and Western North Carolina: New Year, New Challenges and Available Resources

ATTRA

Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers a suite of programs to help producers recover their operations. North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS): NCDA&CS has established a hotline to connect farmers with resources for agricultural emergencies related to the storm.

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California Farm Counties Are Not Even Close to Meeting the EPA’s New Clean Air Quality Standard

Civil Eats

The San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the nation; it produced crops, livestock, and agricultural commodities worth $36.5 Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. Agriculture’s contribution to PM2.5

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Robotics Plus launches Prospr: multi-use autonomous vehicle for sustainable orchard and vineyard production

Agritech NZ

and TAURANGA, NZ, September 21, 2023 – New Zealand-based agritech company Robotics Plus has launched Prospr, an autonomous, multi-use, hybrid vehicle designed to carry out a variety of orchard and vineyard crop tasks more efficiently and sustainably while reducing reliance on labor. Salinas, Calif., 23ft for row-to-row turning.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

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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Robotics Plus unveils autonomous modular vehicle to alleviate agriculture labour shortages

Agritech NZ

and TAURANGA, NZ – Robotics Plus , a New Zealand-based agritech company, today launched its autonomous multi-use, modular vehicle platform for agriculture designed to carry out a variety of orchard and vineyard machine tasks – to alleviate ongoing labor shortages and transform the industry.