UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure. Additional resources: The Living Soil Handbook, The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening The post Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies appeared first on Understanding Ag.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. We see enormous potential to both keep land in agricultural production but also to achieve these kinds of ecological benefits,” Robertson-DuBois said.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

She currently uses a tractor with an automatic steering system that improves planting and plowing efficiency and requires much less work, which she credits as one of the pivotal reasons shes able to successfully manage her hundreds of acres of fields on her own. full_link READ MORE Farmworkers cannot wait for OSHA to protect them.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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 percent.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This modular, low-cost machine enables small vegetable, fruit, and horticulture farmers to reduce hand labor with expandable intelligent electrical horsepower while also offering an alternative for many tasks that would otherwise require a full-sized tractor. We hope it will inspire even more innovators to apply for next year’s challenge.”

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Caff

MAY 2, 2022

In addition to working my farm, I also run a farmer training program and Ag education center, the Ecological Agriculture Training and Cultural Center in Norco. I have always had a problem saying no and taking on more than I should. I am all about community and sometimes that gets in the way of my time. Start small and scale up.

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ATTRA

JULY 18, 2023

For example, an ATV is now used for any spray applications and a walk behind harvester will be used under the panels instead of tractor-pulled harvest equipment. With some planning and simple techniques, damage to a site’s ecology can be minimized.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Organic farming is a practice that emphasizes natural processes, ecological balance and the conserving of resources. You can’t take your tractor into a conventional field, and then drive it into [your organic] garden…It’s only a matter of time before they see the horses the same way.” Photo: Shutterstock What is organic, anyway?

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment. Sometimes we plant sorghum grass in the really compacted soil because it helps to burst open the heavy tractor pan that has developed in the soil over the years. We were able to even out some of the areas in the field that had been quite overworked.

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Caff

JUNE 29, 2021

acres on two pieces of leased land using no-till agro-ecological practices including drip irrigation, cover crops and lots of mulch to conserve water and build healthy soil. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.” She farms 1.5

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a lot of ways, carbon farming is like organic farming—the end result is good for a lot of people and agro-ecological systems, but our societal’s economic system isn’t really structured to reward this slow path. In 2019, it was over my head while I was sitting on the tractor! This was just last week in our resting high tunnel!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Improvements in soil health, more thoughtful crop rotations and learning from traditional ecological knowledge can also go a long way in conserving the U.S.’ We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. water resources.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? Or, “consumer trends,” which drive the whole tractor in big box grocery, may change. Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks. How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 23, 2025

Not many commodity farmers are farming like grandpa did: running open-station narrow front tractors with trip buckets: milking in buckets: using pull-type combines: a scythe: or draft animals power to do most of their farming (unless they are part of a small agricultural sub-community). Yet change is common in agriculture and life.

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