Farmland Mechanics Pesticide 
Sustainable Food Trust
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. So, we metaphorically waged war against the weeds for about eight weeks, using mainly mechanical methods and also some hand weeding, not wanting to eliminate them, but to make sure that the crop predominated.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. I was 10 years old when neighbors began using crop dusters to apply pesticides and herbicides. This means that many farmers continue to apply herbicides to eliminate a winter cover crop.
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Civil Eats
JANUARY 29, 2025
The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Heres another example: Farmers in Nicodemus dont disturb their land with mechanized tilling because we know it erodes our soil. Her husband is a sixth-generation descendant of Nicodemus original settlers.
The Lunatic Farmer
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. Throughout history, agriculture required a highly integrated approach because until cheap energy and mechanization, distribution was laborious. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings. MECHANICAL VERSUS BIOLOGICAL.
National Young Farmers Coalition
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S. The approach to addressing speculative ownership of farmland misses the mark.
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