Food and Farming Technology

MARCH 15, 2023

Having already deployed dozens of its retrofit autonomy kits on tractors, Agritech firm FieldIn says it plans to deploy over 100 more throughout the US in 2023. Ouster, Inc. a leading provider of high

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Letters From the Farmhouse: I got married during harvest! Here’s how we are honeymooning.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. Land access was the first step.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer months, Flor Sanchez and the members of her harvest crew rise before dawn and arrive at a cherry orchard in Washington state’s Yakima Valley when there is only the slightest hint of daylight. “We Climbing up into the branches to harvest the ripe fruit in near-darkness, she says, “seems a little dangerous.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

With a new perspective on farming, Flores began to prioritize self-care and be more mindful of her body. Cynthia Flores at Goranson Farm in Dresden, ME. If you or someone you know is struggling, we encourage you to take advantage of these resources for support: Farm Aid Hotline : 1-800-FARM-AID.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Turnips from Three Part Harmony Farm (left). Unfortunately, the scenario is a common one.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

This is commonly regarded as the first introduction of plastic into agriculture, a move that would transform modern farming—and inadvertently deposit an untold amount of plastic in the soil. In the decades that followed, this cheap, pliant material spread through farms across the U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This 40-plus-year-old tractor still has some life left in it. At a farm retirement auction, it topped $20,000.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

In other words, farmers lucky enough to produce a high-value product—especially when it’s intrinsically tied to the soil it’s grown in—may be uniquely positioned to help experiment, develop, and de-risk regenerative practices across all kinds of farms. “If Grape harvest photo courtesy of Dodon. It is a rapidly growing category.”

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Meet the trailblazing women who are revolutionizing technology for small farms, one ingenious solution at a time. Three women are paving the way forward and helping to define what appropriate technology innovation means for the small farm. Rachel is a winner in the Do It Yourself (DIY) category of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer months, Flor Sanchez and the members of her harvest crew rise before dawn and arrive at a cherry orchard in Washington state’s Yakima Valley when there is only the slightest hint of daylight. “We Climbing up into the branches to harvest the ripe fruit in near-darkness, she says, “seems a little dangerous.”

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

Herlinda Huipe and her husband Carmelo Rojas operate Tierra HR Organic Farm on California’s Central Coast. It’s small, so they both still work part time on larger farms, primarily picking strawberries. Brown also learned that among the 121 alumni farmers who responded to a survey, 77 are still operating a farm business.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

Visitors to Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island just outside of Portland, Oregon last October didn’t encounter a corn maze but rather a kid’s maze cut through a field of sorghum. It’s easier on the soil, explains Kat Topaz, who owns the farm along with Jim Abeles. We call ourselves an ‘experience farm,’” says Topaz.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” John Zander, project manager at Cohansey Meadows Farms in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. He plans to harvest some grasses as hay for animal bedding and weed control.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Satellite imagery of Topaz Solar Farm, a massive solar installation inland from San Luis Obispo in Central California, depicts an oasis of blue panels surrounded by sun-scorched earth. But also, at the farm scale, I see agrivoltaics as the technology that can maximize our farmers’ and growers’ output from their lands.”

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Bloomfield’s FLASH Camera in blueberry field Bloomfield’s ground-breaking service includes an advanced camera, on-farm data processing systems, and a grower dashboard providing real-time plant-level assessments. Bloomfield will continue to be based in Pittsburgh, PA, and service customers around the world.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Bloomfield’s FLASH Camera in blueberry field Bloomfield’s ground-breaking service includes an advanced camera, on-farm data processing systems, and a grower dashboard providing real-time plant-level assessments. Bloomfield will continue to be based in Pittsburgh, PA, and service customers around the world.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 2, 2023

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. The first Farmall was the vision of International Harvester engineer Bert R. It was known as “The One For All.” production line every day.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Most of America’s farms are dependent on prodigious amounts of fossil fuels at every stage of production. From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. 4) Transport accounts for about 19% of total food-system emissions. (5)

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Research underway at a Madison County solar farm promises to shed light on how well multi-use farming can work at a large scale. The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In the following discussion, I would like to share some thoughts on how to add net profit into a grazing operation, as well as share my own experiences reducing hay inputs with the grass-finished beef herd that roams across our northern Michigan family farm. Each year provides new opportunities to incorporate more regenerative practices.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A new integration between CropX s agronomy platform and CLAAS digital farm and fleet management platform, users of CLAAS equipment can bring their machine data into CropX for visualization, analysis, and creation of variable rate application tasks. sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in November 2024 compared to the year before.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Monitoring these common forms of waste in farming operations can assist you as an agribusiness professional in streamlining practices, reducing costs, and boosting your bottom line. On-farm examples of defects include diseased fruits, blemished vegetables, off-grade milk, or low-quality wool.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms. But the Innovation Challenge is about more than just tractors.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our most recent Food Tank book list highlighted the book Crushed: How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink, in which writer Brian Freedman explores how extreme weather events, from wildfires to floods to hail storms, are threatening grape and grain harvests. To farm animals and meat alike raised humanely and sustainably.

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Caff

AUGUST 15, 2024

Electric farm equipment is revolutionizing the agricultural industry, offering a cleaner, more efficient alternative to traditional fossil fuel-powered machinery. Common electric farm equipment includes electric tractors, irrigation pumps, forklifts, refrigeration units, and more.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. So its all on me, and its my family farm.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

With community-scaled ingenuity at heart, the winners of this year’s Small Farm Innovation Challenge offer solutions for local agriculture. In its second year, the Challenge sought submissions from around the world for innovations that can help solve the unique challenges facing small farms and local food systems.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

One of the things that I have a love/hate relationship with on the farm is time. Individual days and weeks can sometimes seem so long (especially when that harvest list runs onto three pages!), But on a farm of our scale and crop mix, time is the main limiting factor! Can our harvesting metrics improve?

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We all know that farming can be a challenging gig, but with a few nifty tricks up your sleeve, you can turn your farm into a powerhouse of productivity and fun. In this article, we'll share the top 10 tips to boost your farm's efficiency, productivity, and yields – all with a dash of farm flair!

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 3, 2020

But this year, I do have a resolution that I’m gunning for—blogging and newsletter-ing more for the farm! The thing is, I write a LOT about life on the farm (like almost every day I write something farming-related), but I don’t usually post them. Water (or mud?) New high tunnel is up! Summer of the allergies. Fall squash time!

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

Farmers have been fighting for the right to repair their own John Deere tractors and combines for several years, and the issue of John Deeres repair monopoly has united farm groups across a broad ideological spectrum. The post FTC Fights for Farmers Right to Repair appeared first on Civil Eats.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Aug. If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Aug. 12, 2024, report. 12, 2024, report.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

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. Soil prep increases time, labor, and overall farming costs, and potentially increases soil disturbance. The seeding can also occur while a cash crop is nearing the end of harvest.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This is where comprehensive Farm Management Software (FMS), like the market-leading AGRIVI Farm Enterprise , becomes a crucial differentiatorit consistently delivers ROI with measurable benefits that directly impact farmers profitability. How Farm Management Software Delivers ROI Quickly?

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