Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. A modest rebound in U.S. Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest.

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Seeding Harvest 45

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. To reduce global hunger, American policymakers, the USDA, and chemical/hybrid-seed manufacturers saw an opportunity for profit.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop.

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Pesticide Marketing Seeding Crop 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The PCB Protestsand the Birth of a Movement Oily in texture and without smell or taste, PCBs are synthetic compounds used in manufacturing transformers and other electrical equipment. The delays in payment could be devastating.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. Tobacco manufacturing jobs—de-stemming leaves, making cigarettes—accounted for only 1.6 percent of all manufacturing jobs in the state. Photo by John West.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 108