ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. This priority to minimize damage to the land could have a positive impact on community support for a solar site, particularly on ancient farmland or similarly valued sites.

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Seeding Processing Pasture Tractor 75

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. Most of Camptis land is dedicated to livestock, including sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens, while 2.5 Half their livestock died, too. That’s how bad it was last year. percent today.

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Plantation Acre Farming Farming 126

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Photo credit: Lisa Held) Still, it’s a bumpy farm road ahead: no smooth pavement, with deep potholes to navigate around and animals running in front of the tractor. I’d imagine a lot of farmland investors want to see numbers on a spreadsheet about how to maximize yield from acreage,” he says.

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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The operation benefits everyone involved: Sheep farmer Frankie Iturriria gets paid for his time, the collaborating rangeland researchers are breaking ground , and the landowner BHE Renewables can maintain the property with sheep, which have less impact and are more cost-effective than mowers or other livestock.

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Farming Farming Technology Acre 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By the time Byron passed away in 1931, he had accumulated 2,000 acres, on which he grew timber and raised livestock. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. On the farm, Arthur raised some livestock and vegetables but mostly grew row crops like tobacco.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

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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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvest 74

Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Instead, they use antibiotics made for livestock they buy from a veterinarian or feed store. Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas. Since I was a kid, my mom has told me stories about family friends who were injured or killed when their tractors overturned — a leading cause of injury or death for farmers.

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Ranching Ruralism Farming Farming 99

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you're considering a change in career here are a few things to think about before you start digging in the soil or buying livestock. Find Farmland, Equipment and Materials This is the elephant in the room for many people. Or, maybe it's aquaponics farms, livestock, row crops, or bees, there are so many ways to grow food.

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Farming Farming Production Livestock 66