Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year we had something around 700 plantings total, of over 150 crop varieties, and each was handled slightly differently at each stage (seed starting, greenhouse water and heat, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest). When you think of farming, likely tractors and planting and weeding pop into your brain.

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Greenhouse Plowing Harvest Harvester 52

Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Science Animal Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 59

Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower. DIY Construction and Cost-Effectiveness The drying rack can be easily replicable by other farmers.

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Technology Farming Farming Harvest 98

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 92

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 129

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

The most expensive EQIP grant an individual farm can receive is for the construction of a methane digester, which is over $280,000 on average. From this dishonorable top 10 list, at least eight could be considered industrial, with practices targeted toward large-scale, animal or commodity crop operations.

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Manure Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 52

Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from transplanted puddled rice cultivation to direct-seeded rice can help farmers to reduce water use by up to 40 percent, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up to 45 percent and reduce farmers’ dependence on scarce and costly manual labor by up to 50 percent. The construction of the 720,000 sq.

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Tractor Seeding Acre Technology 64