UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Although no-till implies not tilling at all, many no-till market gardeners still rely on some form of light tillage to create a seed bed or apply copious amounts of compost as a mulch to create a seed bed. However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure.

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvester 105

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

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. We brought in a herd of 10 Nantaise cows and a bull for their compost,” he explains.

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Cattle Poultry Manure Compost 84

Caff

MARCH 9, 2023

For example, for equipment such as a wood chipper, compost spreader or seed-drill, which supports farmers to implement conservation practices that protect and improve soil health and sequester carbon, costs can start at $5,000. electric tractor) by making the necessary infrastructure available to them.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 52

Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The farmer of the future is just as likely to wear a lab coat as they are to drive tractors, says Evan Fraser, Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, at the Food4Climate Pavilion. Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S. For her, the priority is “bringing a solution to the market that can also be localized.”

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Food Finance Agriculture Agriculture 59

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

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 138

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. The trailer is still hitched to the old orange tractor they used as they harvested two long rows from a nearby field. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And while kraft paper has fallen short of matching the yields and durability of plastic mulch, a recently trialed version promises an uncoated and industrially compostable product that, according to the manufacturer, “provides a comparable level of protection.” Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

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