Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

If that same land was producing a harvest of potatoes, a typical crop for the area, farmers could expect, based on 2020 prices , to have received approximately $736.56 (CDN) per metric ton from their harvests. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 83

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine. This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood.

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Grain Farming Farming Orchard 102

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking. We no longer trembled with fear.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 115