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Making Farm Ownership (Or Rental) Possible For Young Farmers

Farmbrite

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs. How to lease farmland for alternative energy Why you should join or start a farm cooperative Is a CSA right for you The government offers a number of programs for young farmers.

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

If we lose our livestock, we lose our culture, our dignity, said Rabari. The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion.

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When Natural Disasters Strike the Farm, the Effects Linger

Modern Farmer

“As you’re structuring your cropping and the livestock rotations, you’re having to actively adapt, sometimes daily, to deal with the weather conditions.” Livestock producers and ranchers have a lot to deal with during a disaster, but crop farmers face a range of long-term impacts from weather events. That’s his life.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply. The field consumes 14 million tons of plastics every year, with crop and livestock production accounting for 80 percent.

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

They’d take a few hundred acres of both leased and family-owned central-Texas farmland—land that for decades had grown row crops of corn and cotton—and give it “what it wants back,” he said. See full series Back around 2011, Jonathan Cobb and his wife, Kaylyn, had what he calls a “simple game plan.”

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Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Civil Eats

farmland is regularly cover cropped. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility. reduce tillage), increase plant diversity, keep roots in the soil as long as possible, and integrate livestock.

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Industry Ag News 12/8

Agwired

with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. The American Farm Bureau Federation and South Dakota Farm Bureau presented Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) They will each serve a two-year term at the helm of the organization.

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