UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. Patrick’s mother, Celeste, was an educator.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Whether you have a tractor, farm truck, or combine, you know that efficiently maintaining your farm equipment is crucial for maximizing productivity, prolonging machinery life, and ensuring a safe working environment. Different types of equipment require various fluids to function optimally. Clean off any excess dirt or rust, if possible.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The vision for Bloomfield from founding was to provide continuous plant-level knowledge to every specialty crop farmer around the world, and this acquisition brings that vision forward at a scale and speed we could not have imagined,” says Mark DeSantis , CEO of Bloomfield Robotics.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The vision for Bloomfield from founding was to provide continuous plant-level knowledge to every specialty crop farmer around the world, and this acquisition brings that vision forward at a scale and speed we could not have imagined,” says Mark DeSantis , CEO of Bloomfield Robotics.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This cutting-edge technology for New Hollands BigBaler range offers the potential for greater productivity, bale quality, fuel efficiency and operator comfort by automating key baler and tractor functions. m working widths, the UltraFeed Pickup efficiently handles larger windrows and improves crop flow through the harvester.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres. We’re talking about animal integration, we’re talking about integrating trees, we’re talking about integrating other crops. “If we take this as a holistic system.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AgroLiquid , a leader in high-efficiency crop liquid fertilizer solutions, has acquired Montys Plant Food Company , a Louisville-based specialist in soil health and plant nutrition technology. sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in November 2024 compared to the year before. sales of tractors in all classes dropped 14.5

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer months, Flor Sanchez and the members of her harvest crew rise before dawn and arrive at a cherry orchard in Washington state’s Yakima Valley when there is only the slightest hint of daylight. “We Climbing up into the branches to harvest the ripe fruit in near-darkness, she says, “seems a little dangerous.”

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The grapes, grains, and other crops that become alcoholic beverages—and the production process itself—all have environmental footprints that can’t be ignored. They purchase the crops from local farmers at fair prices and use a variety of other low-impact processes. “Support the producers who are supporting the planet. In the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. The freight trucks, locomotives, and inland barges that transport bulk harvested commodity crops and livestock significantly add to agriculture’s CO2 emissions.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Because with farm leases that only cover up to three years at a time, the threat of the landlord selling out to a pricey condo developer has hung over every kale and garlic harvest. But first, the soil will need to be brought back to life, having been worn out by decades of tobacco cultivation followed by commodity corn and soybean crops.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Rachel’s Greathouse Garden About Rachel Greathouse Rachel Greathouse is owner of Greathouse Garden, a small farm based out of Missouri which specializes in storage and staple crops. She designed an innovative solution for their small farm which has dramatically improved their process for harvesting and drying crops such as onions and garlic.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Unlike most crops, the grasses don’t mind being submerged and can hold salt in their roots and excrete it through glands in the blades. He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control. What exactly that will look like is still developing and it will likely include growing new crops in new places.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

Corn and soybeans will grow here sporadically; however, wet falls or an early freeze usually prevent harvest. What I found was the first year following the plow, the new crop looked great, but I now realize that this was the result of a release of carbon from the soil propping up the new seeding. Screw ups happen.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

One big issue is what crops can work well for large-scale utility projects. You hear a lot about produce and specialty crops,” for example, said Sarah Moser, Savion’s director of farm operations and agrivoltaics. Moser and Ohio State University researchers think forage crops like alfalfa and hay hold promise.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Individual days and weeks can sometimes seem so long (especially when that harvest list runs onto three pages!), But on a farm of our scale and crop mix, time is the main limiting factor! When you think of farming, likely tractors and planting and weeding pop into your brain. Can our harvesting metrics improve?

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Aug. As harvest season approaches, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is encouraging farmers to prepare by filling propane tanks early. 12, 2024, report.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Get to know your soil by testing it, and then bring in the heavy hitters compost and cover crops. Regularly amend your soil with organic matter, such as compost or cover crops, to improve fertility. Healthy soil is the foundation for healthy crops. Crop Rotation A crop mixtape if you will.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. One of ALBA’s farmer partners driving a tractor. It’s small, so they both still work part time on larger farms, primarily picking strawberries. Rojas said recently in Spanish.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture. Stockpiled forage with green growth underneath the snow.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

Commercially managed low bush or wild blueberries are harvested in July and August and then the farmer either burns off or mows the plants in the fall. It isn’t until the following year that the plants enter a cropping cycle, the berries are harvested, and the cycles start over again. megawatts of DC power.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JUNE 28, 2024

New Holland aims to bring autonomous solutions across all segments it serves, particularly in the speciality crop market. Bluewhite's unique technology and proven capabilities in orchards and vineyards helps New Holland customers address immediate challenges, such as labor shortages and rising operational costs in the specialty crop market.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company, which already works with more than 20 of the leading permanent crop growers in the US, will use the funds to further scale its agricultural autonomous tractor and farming solutions, and expand into new markets worldwide based on its successful track record. The global market for autonomous tractors is due to reach $11.5B

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Far Eastern Agriculture

AUGUST 22, 2024

New Holland Agriculture North America will debut a range of new equipment and technology offerings at the upcoming 2024 Farm Progress Show taking place from 27-29 August scheduled to take place in Boone, Iowa From combines to high-horsepower tractors to round balers, the show will display more than 15 pieces of equipment from New Holland.

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Agwired

MAY 9, 2024

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) partnered with member companies and ag organizations to hold the three-day event which featured combine harvesters, milking equipment, sprayers and planters, irrigation equipment, tractors big and small, as well as dozens of interactive and hands-on exhibits.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Therefore, to maximize profits, they must focus on areas they can influence: achieving high crop yields and quality and securing cost savings through efficient input application and farm operations. This documentation serves as a safeguard, ensuring that waiting periods are diligently observed prior to harvest.

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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. 688, told Civil Eats.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

For instance, ExxonMobil promises that plastic sheets , like those used by Emmert, will “protect and preserve harvests in even the most demanding weather conditions.” For instance, relying less on tractors and heavy machinery would create “less opportunity for rubber tires to degrade and get into the soil,” he said.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 3, 2020

Some crops flourished in the spring—these guys were planted in a field that we weren’t even able to cultivate and still were happy! Happy peas Another wet weather loving crop—we trialed a few new pea varieties this year and are looking forward to growing more of their deliciousness next year! Cover crops for the win!

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees can also expect to learn more about the different kinds of beneficial biology and the biochemical mechanisms that enable soil microbes to benefit crops. The feature is now available to users using EOSDA Crop Monitoring on a Professional plan. Register here. Nufarm Americas Inc.

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Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

During the time before the fire got to their property they used their tractors and implements to make 10-12 foot wide fire breaks around the exterior of their property. Once they lost power they used a generator to run limited irrigation on crops and only through drip lines.

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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. According to the authors, there are three ways to eliminate cover crops: 1) herbicides, 2) rolling and crimping, and 3) tillage.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As the agricultural industry faces increasing demands for efficiency and sustainability, AgroLiquid is intensifying its collaborations with industry leaders to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in crop nutrition. sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 4.8 sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 4.8

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Farmbrite

MAY 2, 2023

The result is a more efficient production of crops that are healthier and more resistant to pests. Digital agriculture uses data to make better decisions about how crops should be planted, when they should be harvested and how much water they need throughout the growing season.

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