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Salford breaks new ground with precision row cultivator

Real Agriculture

Salford is looking to ramp up productivity and minimize crop damage with its new precision row crop cultivator. In this report from from Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show at Woodstock, Ont., Read More Salford is looking to ramp up productivity and minimize crop damage with its new precision row crop cultivator. Read More

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Why cultivation equipment is making a comeback on Wiltshire farm

Farmers Weekly

So it is with a bit of nervous laughter he says less than a minute into an introduction to the 600ha farm that a piece of […] The post Why cultivation equipment is making a comeback on Wiltshire farm appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Farmhand Foundation: Cultivating Organic Change in Southern California

Food Tank

Making the switch from conventional farming practices to organic is a three-year process, and comes with a series of steps. Growers must meet the USDAs Organic Standards , and may need to learn a variety of new farming techniques, according to SARE Outreach. They will launch the first cohort in 2025 with three farms.

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How to adapt cut-price cultivators for low-disturbance system

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly When Michael and Will Scholey decided it was time to stop damaging their ground with high horsepower tracked crawlers and deep, intensive cultivation, they drafted in some expert help. This came from Philip Wright of Wright Resolutions, who visited their farm near York and devised a plan for improving the health of its soils.

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Farm Bill lobbying

Food Politics

Since we are talking this week about the Farm Bill, take a look at this report from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Cultivating Control: Corporate Lobbying on the Food and Farm Bill. Its major findings: Interest groups spent more than $523 million on Farm Bill issues between 2019 and 2023.

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Tips for picking the best cultivator wearing metal

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Replacing cultivator legs, wings and points can be a depressingly regular and ruinously expensive pastime for those working in the nation’s most abrasive soils.

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Vaderstad TopDown cultivator adds prescription tillage on new model

Real Agriculture

Vaderstad’s TopDown high intensity, multipurpose cultivator is not a new product for Canadian farmers, but the versatile tillage implement will get updates for the 2024 season, including a new design and the introduction of prescription tillage.