Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The farmer of the future is just as likely to wear a lab coat as they are to drive tractors, says Evan Fraser, Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, at the Food4Climate Pavilion. Composting helps to fight this waste while also restoring soil health and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers. LIVESTREAM HERE!

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Food Finance Agriculture Agriculture 59

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships.

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Farming Farming Marketing Agriculture 71

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the 19th century, most of the land was owned by large estates and the farming was controlled by the landowners, financed in most cases by money from outside agriculture. The landowners with their expertise were proud of their estates and had sufficient finance to produce a country scene that was a pleasure to behold.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. They till less, plant cover crops after harvest, and have drastically cut their use of fertilizer and insecticides.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 107

Farmbrite

MAY 9, 2023

If the above factors strike, you will lose the resources you spend tilling the land, planting, and fertilizing. If your tractor breakdown, it will affect your ability to harvest and increase production costs. Financial losses Financial losses occur when your borrow money to finance farming.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. Once again, it mostly comes down to finance. “A It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Farming Farming Farmland Acre 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. The more baroque fantasy, the tale of the miracle crop that founded a nation and ensured our freedom and financed our entry into the modern world? I can weather a lot,” he said, getting into his tractor, visibly frustrated. “I

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Farming Farming Acre Crop 95

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. The United States later financed a mill that would be run by a farmer cooperative. Melka wrote his shareholders to say that his attempts to obtain bridge financing had gone nowhere.

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