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Micronutrient Deficiencies in No-Till Systems

Cropaia

In conventional tillage, plowing redistributes nutrients across the soil profile, mixing organic matter and nutrients from the surface with deeper soil layers. In no-till systems, stratified testing is especially important, as it provides insight into how nutrients are distributed throughout the soil profile.

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Whose Farm Is More Sustainable? Calculating Farm Sustainability.

DTN

Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence. Small-area estimation uses EO to distribute projected data to grid squares, ZIP codes, and fields.

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How Our Network of Roadways Has Altered the Natural World

Modern Farmer

It’s about how roads disrupt animal population distributions and migration patterns and how road noise affects ecosystems and how all of the road salts that we apply changes waterways. These sections of interstate were plowed through communities of color in the 1950s and 60s very deliberately.

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Industry Ag News 2/2

Agwired

with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau presented Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)

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Sustainability in a Shell: How Snail Farms are Providing a Low-Impact Protein Alternative

Agritecture Blog

Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. Distributing food scraps in each of the pens. The waste is usually cut into small pieces to be distributed amongst more of the beds.

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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

On the other hand, plowing a field creates lots of resistance and, therefore, uses lots of energy. Tractors are also more sensitive to the location of the weight, preferring an even weight distribution across the wheels for the best stability in the mud. Sometimes, this work is low intensity, such as mowing grass in large fields.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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