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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. All his siblings left, too.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. In November, her farm in Alexandria achieved a milestone by harvesting its first full acre of rice after three years of smaller trials, marking their best harvest yet. Half their livestock died, too.

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For Farmers, Fitness Programs Can Improve Mental Health, Too

Civil Eats

Niggs program launched in 2021 and is all about getting fit right on the farm by making use of tractor tires, grain bin stairs, and other readily available equipment. Cramped muscles or a frazzled circulatory system from absorbing combine vibrations all day during harvest season.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. The white soles of his well-worn leather work boots are covered in dirt.

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A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

Civil Eats

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. Graham said that 2025 would be a year of testing the waters of collaborative capacity building, joint distribution, and building a food community.

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Precision Ag News 12/19

Agwired

AGCO Corporation , a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, celebrated the grand opening of the AGCO Technician Training Center at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in November 2024 compared to the year before.

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Op-ed: Big Ag Touts Its Climate Strengths, While Awash in Fossil Fuels

Civil Eats

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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