Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere. The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. I felt the tractor tilting over,” Langford recalls. “I

Tractor 92

Tractor Farming Farming Acre 92

Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. stems from burning, soil management, and gaseous emissions from both tractors and soil. But Ansalem would like to see tractors face the same regulation as other vehicles in the state.

Farming 91

Farming Farming Tractor Agriculture 91

ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Agronomic Division is waiving all predictive and diagnostic lab fees, including Soil Testing, Plant Tissue Analysis, Nematode Assay, Waste and Compost Analysis, Solution Analysis and Soilless Media Analysis for any of the 27 counties impacted by Hurricane Helene. The fee waiver will remain in effect until June 30, 2025.

Farmland 52

Farmland Orchard Compost Agriculture 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. 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. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

Plantation 139

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 139