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‘Britain’s fastest farmer’ swaps tractor for Porsche

Farmers Weekly

Based just outside of Bath, in Somerset, Oliver White works alongside his dad and brother on the family farm, where they keep about 450 ewes and 150 beef cattle.

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Sharing livestock machinery: Advice and options

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Justifying a new tractor or baler for a beef and sheep enterprise on a family farm is becoming increasingly hard as costs inflate to erode margins. And according […] The post Sharing livestock machinery: Advice and options appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. I felt the tractor tilting over,” Langford recalls. “I In the end, the tractor landed on its left side; a roll bar above the seat prevented it from turning upside down.

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Farmall tractor turns 100

Todays Farmer Magazine

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Farmall tractor , introduced a century ago as the all-purpose tractor designed to revolutionize the agriculture industry. Benjamin who wanted to design a tractor that wasn’t made for one single purpose but all of them. It was known as “The One For All.” production line every day.

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Drought’s Toll on California Family Farms

Caff

She farms 1.5 She dry farms tomatoes and winter squash on one property which sits low in the ground and typically floods every winter. It’s usually too wet to get tractors on the fields until June.” This year, for the first time in the twelve years Caiti has farmed, a seasonal pond on the land did not fill.

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Man vs machine: What can agriculture teach us about AI and the future of work?

Sustainable Food Trust

As the Industrial Revolution progressed, we started using more advanced equipment that could be pulled by horses, and of course today we have individual tractors that can do the work of hundreds of horses (627 horsepower is apparently the highest as of 2023). Life as a peasant farmer, before mechanisation, would have been extremely hard.

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Opinion: European Farmers Are Standing Up to Free Trade—Will US Farmers?

Modern Farmer

Similarly, in 2015 , 51 percent of the value of US farm production came from farms with at least $1 million in sales, compared to 31 percent in 1991. From 1997 to 2022, more than 340,000 farms, or 15 percent of operations, went out of business. In fact, US farmers in the past did so.

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