UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure.

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

These indicators include fertilizer and crop protection usage, irrigation, cover crop and tillage practices, and equipment emissions. EcoField data uses the most comprehensive, field-level data on more than 50 sustainable agriculture practices and inputs.

Beverage 52

Beverage Food Farming Farming 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Early Days in the Tobacco Fields Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Brown helped out on the farm, mostly with the tobacco crop, after school and over summers. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. Crop duster airplanes offer ways to target a field infestation through the aerial application of chemicals.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. Linwood Scott III is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer who’s worried about the crop’s “razor-thin margin.” In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C.,

Farming 85

Farming Farming Acre Crop 85