Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers have been navigating the same farm lending company practices for more than a century. When the Federal Farm Loan Act was passed in 1916, it gave farmers access to desperately needed capital. But since then, farm lending companies have remained stuck in the past and seen little change. had reached an all-time high of 6.8

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers. For those on a smaller-scale, this smaller-scale mode of transportation will offer a quick, easy and affordable way to get around the farm.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over. Since 2012, we’ve lost nearly 32 million acres, some to development, some to the expansion of farming. A lot of the new land that’s getting plowed up is soil that isn’t necessarily going to sustain farming for the long term.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 31, 2023

We have a small farm at home as well. My father initially started off plowing with a horse, and here we are talking about using satellite data to measure grass at home. Agriculture technology has grown leaps and bounds over the last generation, says Holden. “We It’s amazing what happens in a short space of time.”

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Over 15 years ago, I moved from Vermont to Arkansas, and I’ve been here farming in the Ozarks ever since. I share this example because I think it is a good reminder to ask why in our own lives, on our own farms. The soil had lost its structure because of the way it was being managed.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Young farmers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and need support to continue implementing solutions on their farms. However, they often face barriers to accessing federal conservation programs, because their farms and ranches tend to be small. The Small Farm Conservation Act ( S.2180 2180 , H.R.5354 2180 , H.R.5354

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

No-till farming, along with its sibling practice, reduced-till farming, has emerged as a promising solution to this challenge. This article explores the considerations, benefits, and disadvantages of transitioning to no-till and reduced-till farming, shedding light on how farmers can manage this transition successfully.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. But there are still ways for young people to get into farming if they're willing to do their homework first!

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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. But on a farm of our scale and crop mix, time is the main limiting factor! When you think of farming, likely tractors and planting and weeding pop into your brain. Note Beulah’s careful supervision of the plow. What I love to do is WEED.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 13, 2024

No-till farming has grown in popularity due to its benefits in promoting soil health, conserving water, and reducing erosion. By leaving the soil undisturbed, no-till farming helps improve soil structure and increase organic matter , particularly in the topsoil.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. While at the conference, I was invited to visit a local snail farm. Having attempted (mostly unsuccessfully) to raise snails previously in California, I was very interested in visiting this farm. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

My little mad farm helps me do that. And since cover cropping is scalable to just about any size farm or garden, it made sense to conduct some field experiments of my own. year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. It keeps me honest.

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Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

The American Farm Bureau Federation and Louisiana Farm Bureau presented Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. The conference is scheduled for April 11-12 in Overland Park, Kansas. Register for AgCon2024.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CBC Written by: Bob Becken Richard Melvin hopes there comes a time when the majority of food waste from his farm ends up in the mouths of people who need it most. We waste enough cauliflower on our farm to feed everybody in Nova Scotia, or the Maritimes for that matter," he told Cross Country Checkup 's Ian Hanomansing.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, barley, oats, cotton) and plays an important role in predicting farm program expenditures in the President’s annual budget proposal. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

In more recent years, however, a "take half, leave half" message has come on strong within the grass farming movement. Here at our farm, we've been dabbling in this grass farming for half a century and that give us lots of experience, meaning we've done all sorts of techniques and lived to tell about it.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that most farm loan borrowers will be able to make payments to their direct loans online through the Pay My Loan feature on farmers.gov in early February. The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau presented Sen. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.),

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In short, our farm is terribly set up in terms of efficiency or ease of planning. They are totally right, if you look at farming as a system of rigidly applying straight lines and strict rules onto the earth. Making that first change away from the “shoulds” of farm layout felt freakier than it should have.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

On the other hand, plowing a field creates lots of resistance and, therefore, uses lots of energy. They could sit dormant for large portions of the year, but come harvesting time on a large farm, they could be running 24/7 for days at a time. Sometimes, this work is low intensity, such as mowing grass in large fields.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

In a more sheltered part of the bay, the Welcomes farm sugar kelp and oysters. They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. It was slippery, al dente, and tasted a little, but not unpleasantly, like blood.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. Abebe’s mantra, “nourish and heal,” is catching hold around the globe.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yet the bucolic scene belies an environmental problem roiling beneath the surface: The groundwater in this part of Minnesota is so contaminated with nitrates running off farm fields that the U.S. Dialing up Diversity One standard approach to cleaning the water that runs off farms is planting cover crops.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Robert Bonnie, USDA Unlike with organic farming, climate-smart farming has no list of allowed or prohibited practices.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The cause of the tragedy, according to Illinois State Police , was “excessive winds blowing dirt from farm fields across the highway leading to zero visibility.” Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

A Farm Bill Opinion Piece by Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University In a recent New York Review of Books essay , I argued that few non-farmers – which is most of the U.S. population – know about or pay attention to the Farm Bill, the legislative vehicle for much of the nation’s agricultural and food policies.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Rodale Institute , a nonprofit research institution for organic farming, cites that every acre of land farmed with plastic mulch creates upwards of 120 pounds of waste that typically end up in landfill, or otherwise break down into the soil or nearby watersheds. However, no biodegradable films meet the NOP’s minimum threshold.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This [farm] has been in my family for over 125 years, she said. So its all on me, and its my family farm. Keeping her farm well-managed is a responsibility she doesnt take lightly. I do everything from banking to planting to spraying, everything. Im very proud of that. Shes been more or less a one-woman show since.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Caff

MAY 24, 2022

From 2020-2022 CAFF partnered with fifteen farms across California to develop and update their food safety practices. Get to know more about our Partner Farm Program and meet 4 of our Partner Farms below. What is the Partner Farm Program? Meet the Partner Farms​ CAFF partnered with fifteen California farms from 2020-2022.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Adding a heavy dose of irony to the overall complexity of getting more acres farmed regeneratively is the fact that in some growing regions, this effort is being undermined by yet another critical climate solution: solar power. The challenges to farming, period—let alone transitioning to regenerative—can be high. It sounds easy.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the time, Corse was working off farm, while her parents transitioned their dairy into an organic operation. But Corse didn’t want the farm to disappear. We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

These sustainable planting practices are used in conjunction with rotational grazing, whereby farmers keep less grazing stock on their farms, moving animals periodically between paddocks to allow their land to recover — thus avoiding the desertification that harsh drought and overgrazing can bring. Credit: Government of Western Australia.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. A lot of Black and Indigenous farmers are working full-time jobs and farming on weekends and at night.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cover crops, like this clover growing on a farm in Wilbur, Washington, have proven beneficial for preventing soil erosion and chemical runoff that fouls waterways. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. Photo by Edwin Remsberg/VWPics via AP Images. percent for corn and 3.5

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