ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

The hurricane’s downpour resulted in severe flooding, eroding topsoil and depositing debris combined with hazardous materials across businesses, homes, and farmlands. Locals operated privately owned heavy machinery and farm tractors, clearing and scraping public roads. Click here for a comprehensive list.

Farmland 52

Farmland Orchard Compost Livestock 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. stems from burning, soil management, and gaseous emissions from both tractors and soil. a company that manages over 110,000 acres of farmland throughout the Central Valley. Agriculture’s contribution to PM2.5

Farming 138

Farming Farming Tractor Agriculture 138

Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

Without pollinators to fertilize berry crops, orchards or field crops such as squash, all of us eaters are also endangered. Combine or tractor harvesting destroys eggs and can even result in the deaths of birds. But, it’s not always easy for growers to identify those species at risk on their properties.

Agriculture 112

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 112

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A few years back, while building a fence on her farmland, Hemmes suffered her first bout of on-the-job heat exhaustion. I dont have an orchard on my farm, but if I did, and I saw this thing [climate change] coming, you know, maybe you look at tearing the trees out and starting to plant what I can in those fields.

Agriculture 73

Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 73

RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Forage Seeding 52

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” million grant in 2022 to Ujamaa for the purchase of a medium-sized plot of land in Yolo County.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145