ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

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. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

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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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

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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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As a farmer, you might be a laborer, mechanic, artist, plumber, electrician, landscaper, entrepreneur, grower, inventor, salesperson, website designer, and honestly whatever else needs to be done. Find Farmland, Equipment and Materials This is the elephant in the room for many people. You might have to wear many different hats.

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