Global Agtech Initiative

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The post FarmWise Thrusts AI Into Spotlight With Mechanical Weed Management appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. FarmWise CEO Tjarko Leifer shares more about the company’s commercial agreement with RDO and future growth plans.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Whether you have a tractor, farm truck, or combine, you know that efficiently maintaining your farm equipment is crucial for maximizing productivity, prolonging machinery life, and ensuring a safe working environment. Here’s a comprehensive guide to farm equipment care and maintenance to help you maintain your farm equipment properly.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unfortunately, many farming practices in Africa are based on monoculture, so if a disease or a drought hits a key growing region, the entire system suffers. Incorporating indigenous vegetables into our local farming system can disrupt this pattern. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Chekeita Strong, a former youth staff member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, sits by the bayou at the farm in New Orleans. But she was also a crew member at Grow Dat Youth Farm, an organization that teaches young people like herself leadership skills while they learn about sustainable agriculture. Photography by Minh Ha/Verite News.

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Food Politics

MAY 8, 2024

coli Outbreak linked to Gibson Farms Walnuts This refers to the CDC announcement: E. FDA determined that Gibson Farms, Inc supplied these walnuts and Gibson Farms, Inc has recalled these products.: The nuts are removed from the tree using a mechanical shaker, a machine that grasps the trunk and shakes the whole tree.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Todd Dumond uses his mechanical engineering prowess to grow the family farm.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Having effectively severed what should be an umbilical relationship between cows and the land they graze, Arla have now resorted to feed additives to maintain positive PR for their dairy farming industry. The problem as I see it is that the dairy farming community have been swept along a path of industrialisation and intensification.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

That’s how a farmer who used to work for Perdue described his chicken house—a sight so upsetting that it led him to transition out of this kind of work, often referred to as “factory farming.” There are small, medium and large CAFOs, with the largest of these embodying the truest definition of a “factory farm.”

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is exactly what Jay Fuhrer and the team at the Menoken Farm did starting in 2013. In 2022, the farm averaged 8.7% in some spots.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 29, 2024

From mechanical swarm robots to autonomous sprayers, these machines might be what the future looks like.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Road warrior: The one thing lenders don't want to find is surprises like unpaid mechanic bills or fees owed to cooperatives.

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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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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

By Audrey Kolde , NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist My experience in farming started at the hand-tool scale. My love of farming hasnt changed as the aches and pains have increasedin fact, it has grown. With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming.

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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), On a conventional row crop farm, any given acre only produces one type of food annually. There is hope.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. farm worker and food service worker force that brings us our daily bread, there are immigrants and refugees from at least fourteen desert countries around the world, who have grown up growing, harvesting and preparing these desert foods for family and community meals. up until this moment?

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 3, 2025

BFF is one of a handful of organizations formed since 2020 to support BIPOC farmers and food businesses unable to obtain capital and other critical aid through conventional options, like a farm credit bureau or bank. Rocky Acres Farm, a member of the Black Farmer Fund. Orzell White’s mechanical weeder.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you tried to call Owl’s Head Blueberry Farm in Richmond, Vermont, this summer, you might have reached an automated voicemail announcing that the evening’s live music had been rescheduled for later in the week and the U-pick was closed due to thunderstorms. percent of farms received income from agritourism activities.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This mechanism helps plants retain more water during dry periods, improving overall WUE. The post Water-Smart Farming: The Essential Role of Potassium first appeared on Cropaia. Conservation Agriculture and Irrigation Management Practices like mulching and minimum tillage reduce water loss and improve soil K retention.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

If a nutrient map has dozens of tiny polygons each with a different rate, the sprayer or spreader is doing constant changes the risk of mistakes or mechanical issues rises. Conduct on-farm trials to confirm assumptions – Before rolling out hyper-specific plans across an entire field, run strip trials.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With recent innovations that include the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester and the Baby Greens Harvester (a scaled up option not shown in this video) by Terrateck, small farms can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of their harvest. Harvesting salad greens can be a slow and labor-intensive process.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. Since 1988, more than $26.6

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Collecting that farm-level data is a critical missing piece in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) five-year plan , launched in 2019, to improve “antimicrobial stewardship” in animal agriculture, advocates say. It was about the mechanics.” The data is at the feed mills.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. The tractor, the most ubiquitous tool on America’s farms, is also the most dangerous. In one instance, a 56-year-old man had worked on his father’s farm all his life.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 8, 2024

If we figure out what the mechanisms are, that leads us directly to concrete conservation interventions,” says Lauck. At the farm level, Lauck recommends certain actions that can help birds deal with this heat stress. Across the globe, nearly half of all habitable land is used for farming.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Partly because I am old enough to remember that back in the 1950s and 60s, in other words before the widespread adoption of intensive chemical based farming, we used to produce food in harmony with nature at scale. This was how all carrots were produced back in the day, mostly as part of a traditional arable farming rotation.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This event, organized by the Farm Credit Associations in the CoBank District, is designed to help young and beginning farmers and ranchers enhance their business skills, build valuable relationships, and learn from fellow producers nationwide. In addition to managing 30 head of stockers and 14 cows, he also trains horses.

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NASDA

APRIL 24, 2024

Recommitting to an aggressive trade agenda, holding parties accountable to commitments, and improving trade enforcement mechanisms are critical steps that need to be taken. agriculture is foundational to the American economy – reaching far beyond farms and rural communities to support more than 48 million jobs across the country.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

For example, it can assist in monitoring crops, optimizing irrigation, and even predicting weather patterns to make farming more efficient and productive. After the shift to mechanized milking, farmers quickly adopted other technologies, like smart collars, activity trackers, and ear tag sensors.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

spent the first 10 years of her career using live animal models to understand the mechanisms of the sperm epigenome and its role in human disease and development. Luense translates human disease and epigenetics expertise to livestock fertility Lacey Luense, Ph.D., But now, she is taking her epigenetics research program in a new direction.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Mechanic St. Conference features latest updates on rice research The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the annual Western Rice Belt Production Conference on Jan. 17 in El Campo. The free event will be held from 8 a.m.-3 at the El Campo Civic Center, 2350 N. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We target actionable components of farming systems in the context of climate change. Meanwhile, Vipula Shukla underscored the importance of tangible AI applications that solve real farming problems, hinting at the emergence of impactful use cases in the near future.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 14, 2024

under the Joint Crediting Mechanism of Japan. Boomitra partners with the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Mitsubishi Corp. The post Boomitra and Mongolian Government Sign Agreement to Introduce Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Finance in Mongolia appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The loss of farmers in Canada is exacerbating these problems, with the farming population shrinking and aging significantly. This trend reveals that few young people from farming families are choosing to stay in farming, and those from non-farming backgrounds face obstacles like high costs and a lack of training.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Photo credit: USDA EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 9, 2024, NSAC released “ Stewarding Success: CSP Under the 2018 Farm Bill ”, a comprehensive analysis of the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) over the course of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill).

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