Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. The event highlights the harvest of its cash crop, peanuts, which has big potential across the globe by providing a sustainable and nutritious product and fighting malnutrition. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Senator John Thune (R-S.D.),

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Manufacturing Supply Chain Harvest Harvesting 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.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

EcoField data Inputs Soil type Tillage type Cover crop used Cash crop planted Fertilizer type Nitrogen application rate Irrigation used Crop drying used Pesticide category Machinery used Crop soil moisture Crop residue removal Nitrification inhibitor used Soil organic matter percent How does EcoField data work?

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Beverage Food Farming Farming 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

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 89