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The Case for Tractor Farming

ATTRA

With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming. However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. I once even moved a walk-behind tractor with a riding tractor.

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Navigating Agricultural Financing as a Farmer: Challenges and Opportunities

Farmbrite

Occasionally as farmers and business owners, we need to find financing to support or grow our businesses. In this blog post, we'll explore what financing looks like for both lenders and agricultural producers and the steps to help you as a farmer find financing and other funding for your farm.

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

Modern Farmer

According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb. In 1987, that figure was 15 percent. 21, 2024. Yes, they do.

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The Farm Tax Guide: Navigating Rising Property Taxes 

Trimble Agriculture

The farmland market is historically strong, and home values in agriculture-heavy states are rising rapidly. The Implications of Rising Property Tax for Rural Landowners High land values seem like a good thing, but the downside is that when the value of farmland goes up, the taxes farmers pay on that land also go up.

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Making Farm Ownership (Or Rental) Possible For Young Farmers

Farmbrite

Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. Here are some options for financing your farm and getting access to land ownership: The government's Farm Service Agency provides loans to new farmers for land ownership.

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Leaf Agriculture raises $11.3M in Series A Funding

World Agri-Tech

In 2023, United States farmers were collecting data on 72% of all available farmland. Before Leaf, these companies attempted to build massive data infrastructure to manage and reconcile all of the weather, irrigation, imagery, tractor, and other data they were collecting. Andrew Parker has joined Leaf’s Board of Directors.

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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