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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Women Innovators for Small Farm Technology

Caff

Their pioneering solutions and commitment to sustainable practices underscore the essential contributions of women in driving technological and ecological advancements in agriculture. The unique design allows the rack to be transported by tractor, accommodating up to 1000 pounds of onions per rack tower.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Maces Pond: Agrisolar Wild Blueberries

ATTRA

Commercially managed low bush or wild blueberries are harvested in July and August and then the farmer either burns off or mows the plants in the fall. It isn’t until the following year that the plants enter a cropping cycle, the berries are harvested, and the cycles start over again. megawatts of DC power.

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Winners of the 2022 Small Farm Innovation Challenge

Caff

Yet despite its 48V electric 8HP motor, this nimble machine gives farmers an impressive array of functions, from prepping beds to harvest to lifting hay bales or even autonomous missions controlled remotely. a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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2021 California Food & Farm Champions

Caff

As the fires still raged and firefighters prioritized urban centers, they took matters into their own hands, building fire breaks with their tractors and reassembling melted irrigation. Just when things were looking up, California’s worst ever wildfire season showed up at their farm’s door step.

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Precision Ag News 9/11

Agwired

From the stage of the Africa Food Systems Forum in Rwanda, the World Food Prize Foundation announced Dr. Dennis Beesigamukama, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya, as the 2024 Recipient of the Norman E. sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 4.8