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Farmhand Foundation: Cultivating Organic Change in Southern California

Food Tank

Department of Agriculture, only 1 percent of farmland in the United States is organic. Before launching the Foundation, Schneir and Barkley started Tractor Beverage Company in 2015. Herber was among Tractors first advisors, and came on full time as Chief Brand Officer in 2021. According to the U.S.

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Opinion: European Farmers Are Standing Up to Free Trade—Will US Farmers?

Modern Farmer

According to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture , the largest four percent of US farms (2,000 or more acres) control 61 percent of all farmland. Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb. In 1987, that figure was 15 percent. In fact, US farmers in the past did so.

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Precision Ag News 2/7

Agwired

The dealer-installed automation kit connects seamlessly with Class 3 ISOBUS Puma, Optum and Magnum tractors. American Farmland Trust (AFT) released a white paper summarizing the climate benefits associated with agricultural conservation easements.

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Precision Ag News 8/9

Agwired

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at a recent meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. Today, cover crops are used on 15.4 million acres, which is only about 6% of U.S.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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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Precision Ag News 2/19

Agwired

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company focused on digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced an integration into MyCHS, the farmer-facing platform from CHS, Inc., sales of Ag tractors and combines fell during January 2025 compared to the year before. sales of Ag tractors dropped 15.8

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

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. The trailer is still hitched to the old orange tractor they used as they harvested two long rows from a nearby field. Across the road, peacocks shriek.