ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From ploughs to power harrows, flat cultivators and seed drills, Pöttinger has presented many interesting and innovative new products and features 1. PLANO VT 6060: The new PLANO VT 6060 trailed stubble cultivator has a working width of 6 metres and 6 rows of tines.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He says scientists at his university are exploring adaptation mechanisms and how to make the plant more resistant to high temperatures in Veracruz, the place of origin of vanilla. Vanilla needs to be grown in places where the temperature is between 25 and 35 degrees Celsius throughout the year.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This evaluation found that chickpeas are a drought-resistant legume plant with a high protein content that can complement grain cultivation systems even in urban areas. “The different varieties and wild types show very different mechanisms to deal with persistent drought stress.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

AI-Driven Cultivation and Next-Gen Crop Nutrition & Protection: Learn how Agwa, Ceragen, TOWING, Anvigen, GroPro, Silvec, TRIC, UpTerra, Invasive Species Corp, Varada Ag, and Quorum Bio are leveraging AI for autonomous vegetable cultivation and engineering microbials for crop nutrition and soil health.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, it advocates for more capital-intensive automation and mechanization in line with the longstanding “bigger is better” agriculture policy of the past fifty years. Envisioning farming as hyper-specialized, where specializations only converge in a marketable product, misses critical aspects of farming knowledge.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A hedgerow can be made up of any densely planted growth bordering a field that is cultivated to create a barrier. But a hedgerow can also mean stands of cultivated scrub brush and flowers that create boundaries between open fields or cropland, which are sometimes also called “shelterbelts.”

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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. Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 29, 2024

This allows mixed crop sysems to be cultivated in a single pass. To achieve this, the coulter system is available in a hydraulic version (up to 70 kg coulter pressure) and a mechanical version (up to 45 kg coulter pressure). This is particularly useful in the increasingly popular cultivation of mixed crops.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Current Culture H2O For the last 15 years, Current Culture H2O ® (CCH2O) has been a market leader and innovator in hydroponic cultivation solutions for professional growers worldwide. Credit: Surna Cultivation Technologies. These companies join a number of existing members, which include: Ceres Greenhouse Solutions , CropKing, Inc.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. In total, salt-affected soils cover approximately 7% of the total land on Earth, 23% of cultivated agricultural land and nearly 50% of irrigated land.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Bed Preparation and Seeding Gardeners have traditionally relied on “cleaning” and “flipping” beds before seeding.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

It is an aquaponic-related growing technique for cultivating plants that utilize sand as a primary medium for mechanical filtration, biofilter, and crop-growing media. The main difference when compared to aquaponics is that it does not require separate mechanical and biofilters as the sand acts as both. Credit: Kiwa Farms.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2023

This discussion also echoed wonderful conversations at the Food4Climate Pavilion, whose entire day was devoted to the topic of “giving voice the the unheard—cultivating a green generation.” “We need to bring together (the solutions) with a sense of place, and with a sense of equity and social justice,” she continued. LIVESTREAM HERE !

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Being strategic includes setting up mechanisms of holding the organization accountable to accomplish these tasks and goals. Timelines, performance indicators, and assignment of duties and responsibilities all hold the organization accountable for the success of the farm.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Additionally, durum wheat, known for its high protein content and suitability for pasta production, finds its niche in arid regions where its drought tolerance allows for successful cultivation. Timing Proper timing of planting is essential for wheat’s growth. IRRIGATION Efficient water management is crucial for wheat production.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Mitigation Methods Defensible Space Use targeted/prescribed grazing, beneficial fire, and mechanical methods to maintain vegetation buffers around sensitive structures, access roads, and containment areas. Designated Containment Areas Keep pesticides/fertilizers, etc. Fungi use chelation to absorb heavy metal ions from the environment.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Surna Cultivation Technologies is an industry-leading CEA facility design expert that has been supporting growers in setting up successful farming operations for over 16 years. Your design will address key aspects of infrastructure as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing considerations.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 15, 2024

Primary tasks under the H-2A program involve “farming in all its branches”, including preparation, planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, as well as the raising of livestock and other animals. Examples include heavy tractor-trailer truck drivers, supervisors, farm mechanics, and agricultural construction workers.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. MECHANICAL VERSUS BIOLOGICAL.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. It was slippery, al dente, and tasted a little, but not unpleasantly, like blood. In a more sheltered part of the bay, the Welcomes farm sugar kelp and oysters.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Its import extends backward to the earliest Mesoamerican creation myths starring maize-minded gods.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

My ancestors knew they couldn’t grow tobacco, so they learned how to cultivate crops like corn, wheat , and sorghum (milo), all without irrigation. Heres another example: Farmers in Nicodemus dont disturb their land with mechanized tilling because we know it erodes our soil. They had to use horses to break the land.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

He enjoys taking things apart and putting them back togetherMostly old telephones, he saidand he dreams of becoming a mechanic. She hoped that cultivating the crops would keep Francisco closer to home. And even though Micaelas store is successful, he knows that he wont be able to lean on his grandparents forever.

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