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Nature and Scope of Farm Management

Agric4profits

Agriculture is regarded as the art and science of cultivating crops, raising livestock, provision of raw materials for agro-allied industries, and marketing of agricultural produce for mans use.

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Corteva Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Technology

World Agri-Tech

Cultivated for over 10,000 years, wheat is grown on about 550 million acres, providing food for hundreds of millions of people and accounting for 20% of calories consumed worldwide. Internal yield trial testing; 2 years of testing with 6-10 locations/year in each of the market classes. Hard Red Winter testing in NE, KS, CO, OK.

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Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. But Friends Farm was also founded on the idea that farming is about more than cultivating vegetables.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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