NASDA

AUGUST 28, 2023

I have been riding in the buddy seat of my dad’s tractor since I was born. I helped run the grain cart during harvest and worked cattle with my family, I took agricultural education classes throughout high school and competed in FFA events. I have always believed in the future of agriculture.

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Tractor Agriculture Agriculture Grain 130

Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

APRIL 30, 2024

It could be working on a tractor, feeding cattle, golfing, or out on the water. Do you spend a lot of time outside this time of year? If so, you should also be weather-aware and be prepared to find a safe place to get away from severe weather, high winds, lightning, and hail. Here are […] Read More

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Tractor Cattle Science 52

UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

With a move away from tillage, I am now seeing an increase in plant diversity, soil health and increased soil support for cattle and equipment. The cattle that are so much of a positive impact on soil health can also destroy a healthy, well-functioning soil in just a few hours, if improperly managed. Screw ups happen.

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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 97

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From precision farming techniques using GPS-guided tractors to the use of drones for crop monitoring, technology is transforming how farmers manage their land. Autonomous machinery, like self-driving tractors and harvesters, will become more common, reducing labor costs and improving efficiency.

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Farming Farming Technology Yield 96

ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. Let’s examine how mud affects cattle and horses, as they often create muddy conditions.

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Soil Compaction Pasture Forage Livestock 98

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. Growth of the market—and the cattle—was slow. Nantaise cow in the Loire Valley.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 81

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Truth be told, cattle farmers are no fans of lupine. After the lupine was discovered on the Mallonee family farm, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told Maynard Mallonee to come up with a rotational grazing plan for his cattle that protected the lupine. In most instances, farmers will spray the plant with herbicide and kill it.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 112

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I bumped into a neighbour the other day, who has a small family farm with maybe a couple of hundred acres; they used to be a dairy farm, but gave up due to the aforementioned price pressures, and switched to beef cattle and sheep. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

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Food Farming Farming Tractor 141

Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With bale grazing, bales are set in a grid pattern before winter, and cattle are given access to a few bales at a time. For the past six years, winter management meant feeding cattle in a sacrifice area. Because of this, he still needs to bring his tractor into the pasture weekly to lift and unwrap the bales.

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Pasture Forage Soil Compaction Farming 98

ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs. We haul them on the back of the pickup or we can use straps and the scoop of the tractor. Dave Scott raises a large flock of sheep in Montana, and while weather-related water challenges occur every winter, he has found tried-and-true methods that work.

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Livestock Cattle Pasture Poultry 98

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We raised a small herd of cattle on the farm, as well as the hay to feed them through the winter. Now, the Berry Center in Kentucky is trying to take key parts of the former tobacco program – fair prices, controlled production, cooperation – and apply it to other realms, like beef cattle. My parents both worked full-time off the farm.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

On the upside of these problems, however, is the Green Tractor scheme, which involves farmers with a commitment to innovation and environmental change, supporting them to be accountable for their waste. With around 216,000 farms in the UK and 17.2 The scheme reprocesses waste back into usable plastic.

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Straw Farming Farming Ecology 98

Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Included in the framework are top priorities for cattle producers, similar to the bipartisan House Farm Bill, such as funding to protect the U.S. cattle herd from foreign animal disease, continued support for voluntary conservation programs, and other critical food security provisions. and Vita Plus Corporation.

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Science Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 45

Modern Farmer

JUNE 29, 2023

A dusty Nick Stanek stepped off his tractor after an evening of round baling hay. We’ve heard a lot from farmers and ranchers, especially ranchers who are having to sell off cattle before they wanted to because they don’t have enough food, hay, grass — things cattle usually feed off of — to sustain their herds,” Fuchs said.

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Crop Tractor Cattle Acre 52

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sharp is also a veterinary technician, and runs a small cattle business influenced by the Texas ranch where she grew up. Lawn mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, tractors, and trimmers can all spark a wildland fire if used during the wrong time of year,” Garrett says.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 145

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Other pastoralists are nomadic, walking at least 10 miles a day herding cattle from region to region in the hunt for pastureland. When temperatures soar past 90 degrees F in Ahmedabad now a regular occurrence Rabari worries about her mom, who hand-collects feed for their buffalo to graze on.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 73

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She supports exploring agrivoltaics on farms of all sizes in her region, but emphasized that pilots are needed so farmers can plan for altered crop yields under shade and obvious on-the-ground challenges, including that the panels can affect tractor access and irrigation systems and need regular maintenance.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Caff

MAY 2, 2022

Instead, I walked beans, fed cattle, ate fresh picked sweet corn and went fishing in the pond. I have heard so many people say ‘I want to be a farmer but I can’t afford the startup costs’ You don’t have to have a bunch of land, expensive tractors and all the latest technology. I never wanted to go.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Agwired

MAY 3, 2024

The winning rodeo committee receives a new Massey Ferguson 4700 Series tractor, valued at over $60,000, as part of the prize package. Along with this promotion, Sigrid will take on a new portfolio including lab-grown meat, cattle health and welfare, food safety, and animal disease traceability.

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Science Agriculture Agriculture Crop 45

ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. We’re used to farming out the back door, and now we have sites spread hundreds of miles apart. The grazing fees make that cost affordable.” “I

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Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Methadone was found in some soil samples; refrigerators, trucks, tractors were “recycled” in pits dug into hillsides; manure ponds burbled near an estero; and 10,000 tires had been piled in a ravine to stabilize soil depleted and eroding from generations worth of poor grazing practices. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Production loans are issued to cover the cost of land purchases; equipment purchases such as tractors; seeds, fertilizers and chemicals needed for growing crops; breeding livestock like cows or pigs that produce milk; feeder cattle sold at auction markets, and more. Here are some other ideas on adding capital once you have land.

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Farming Farming Farmland Finance 52

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. Both cattle and sheep are kept in large numbers and grazed on a paddock or strip system. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Concentration of cattle and other animals are a major source of pollution.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.” Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment.

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Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. Tripician projects that Grass Fed Foods will buy 2,500 head of cattle from the ranch in 2024, 4,500 in 2025, and 7,000 in 2026.

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Ranching Cattle Production Food 143

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements.

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Farming Farming Marketing Agriculture 66

The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A guy driving a 200 horsepower tractor can accomplish far more than a guy driving a 50 horsepower tractor, and the cost of building the bigger machine is not linear to its size. The cattle industry keeps trying to create bigger cows only to find problems with feet, fertility, and feed efficiency.

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Mechanics Tractor Food Fertilizer 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., He wants his children to have the experience of looking out the window and seeing some of their beef cattle walking by, or riding with him in the combine when they’re picking corn.

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 89

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. After an hour, Doldourov swung onto a dirt road with tire-swallowing holes.

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126