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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. According to pre-workshop surveys that Flores distributed last year, three out of five farmers reported having been injured, with each person averaging about 2.8

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Precision Ag News 1/23

Agwired

At the 9th edition of the World FIRA, taking place from February 4 to 6, 2025, in Toulouse, New Holland will showcase its brand-new T4 FNV specialty tractor, equipped with an advanced guidance system and the winner of the EIMA 2024 Technical Innovation award. sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in December 2024 compared to the year before.

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A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

Civil Eats

Photo credit: Lisa Held) Still, it’s a bumpy farm road ahead: no smooth pavement, with deep potholes to navigate around and animals running in front of the tractor. 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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Precision Ag News 1/16

Agwired

sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in December 2024 compared to the year before. Sales of Ag tractors fell 11.3 Researchers have been updating the map of known soybean cyst nematode (SCN) distribution regularly since 2000, and with each update, the threat spreads. and Canada overlap the SCN distribution map.

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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

India-based tractor giant, Mahindra Tractors—well known for its efficiency and resilience—announced its collaboration with Nairobi’s market leader in vehicle distribution, Simba Colt Aspire Ltd, at a launch event which took place in February this year

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. After World War II, a second factor dramatically accelerated the Great Migration.

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