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Op-Ed | The World’s Desert Farmers and Chefs Can Guide the U.S. into a Braised New World

Food Tank

The grape varieties and vegetables now optimally grown in the climate of Napa Valley, California today will have a tough time reaching harvest there in 2080, but can be more easily grown near the Willamette Valley and Portland, Oregon. The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. In the U.S.

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Agritechnica 2023: Ultra-flat ActiCut slices through stubble to kill weeds

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly A consortium of German farmers and mechanical engineers has developed a novel low-disturbance mechanical weed killer as part of its 2019-launched 4Disc business. The ActiCut has three banks of sharp-edged and ultra-flat 350mm horizontal discs designed to work between 10mm and 120mm deep.

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The Case for Tractor Farming

ATTRA

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Increase Productivity One major reason to adopt tractor farming is that it makes it possible to cultivate larger areas in less time, with less hired help, and less backbreaking work.

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Can the Blockchain Clear the Smoke for Cannabis?

Modern Farmer

From breeding and cultivation to testing and delivery, the cannabis blockchain captures a digital snapshot of every major step of production, distribution and sale, locking them into an immutable digital ledger. Doc Ray has been breeding and cultivating medical cannabis strains for nearly 50 years.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Investing in Controlled Environment Agriculture with Confidence

Agritecture Blog

Cultivation Technology Cultivation technology lies at the center of many strategies and modern CEAs. When reviewing a CEA operation, we ask the questions: “What is the cultivation system being used? Companies developing these novel cultivation systems are typically motivated by lowering their CapEx.

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Bringing Back the (Flax) Fields of Gold

Modern Farmer

What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Farmers can grow flax. Photography by Zoe Schaeffer.