Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. 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.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Agwired

JANUARY 19, 2024

After several months of development, Michael Hinton, America’s Premier Antique Tractor Enthusiast and Founder of Antique Tractor Preservation Day, announced the launch of a new website: TalkingTractors.com. fertilizer companies during a time of rising on-farm fertilizer prices that went on to reach record highs.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 7, 2024

For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. But it is OK to call it a “harvest festival featuring a live music performance.” What is a fertilized egg?

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Farming Farming Farmland Agriculture 118

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Planting, harvesting, breeding, raising livestock all require a period of waiting, but there are forms of waiting that can be minimized in farming operations, such as equipment repair, delayed harvest times due to unavailable labor, and delays of shipments of agricultural inputs.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. One of ALBA’s farmer partners driving a tractor. That has the added bonus of growing more food with less dependence on fossil fuel-heavy practices, like synthetic fertilizer.

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Farming Farming Acre Marketing 130

Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest.

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Farmbrite

MAY 2, 2023

This information can help farmers determine where to apply fertilizer or herbicides, how much water is available in the soil, streamline animal measurement or health checks and much more. The result is a more efficient production of crops that are healthier and more resistant to pests.

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Technology Agriculture Agriculture Farming 52

Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

Campbell Tractor Co. , With six locations across these states, Campbell Tractor continues its legacy of offering quality agricultural products and services by incorporating this cutting-edge technology into its lineup. Without as many reducing sugars, off-color browning and caramelization can be minimized in the Kal91.3

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This new feature simplifies the process of managing fields and field operations data, allowing platform users to automatically synchronize information such as field boundaries, fertilizer application, seeding, spraying, and harvesting directly from their John Deere Operations Center. sales of Ag tractors decreased 19.2

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. My goal is for us to not all become fossils!

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Farming Farming Fertilizer Food 52

Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

By partnering with experts across various sectors, AgroLiquid is at the forefront of testing and developing innovative solutions that help farmers optimize their fertilizer use while addressing the real-world struggles they encounter in the field. sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 4.8 Ag tractor sales decreased 19.4

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Single axle grain carts and large combines are the worst offenders, but manure tankers and larger tractors also easily exceed 10 tons/axle. Unloading combines on headlands and/or more frequently can help if fields are wet during harvest. Tires, tracks, and technology Should you switch to tracks rather than tires?

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. 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.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

This year’s nominations–submitted by people like you–overflowed with inspiring stories of change-makers who are innovating, giving back and working to make our soils more fertile for the next generation. Just when things were looking up, California’s worst ever wildfire season showed up at their farm’s door step.

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Food Farming Farming Ecology 52

Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Equipment Loans These loans can be used to purchase new or used farm equipment, such as tractors, harvesters, and irrigation systems Farm Improvement Loans This type of farm loan is for improving or upgrading existing farm structures or systems. They can be less scrutinized by lenders.

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Finance Agriculture Agriculture Farming 92

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. In November, her farm in Alexandria achieved a milestone by harvesting its first full acre of rice after three years of smaller trials, marking their best harvest yet. Half their livestock died, too.

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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. Storage losses After harvesting, you'll need to store the yields before taking them to the market.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

We race around all winter getting ready and then all spring planting, all summer harvesting, all fall cleaning up, cramming these tasks amid all the computer and outreach work, the deliveries and farmers markets and all the hundred tiny farm emergencies and dramas that pop up each day.

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Cultivation Farming Farming Crop 52

Daily Yonder

JULY 8, 2024

It’s where farmers buy seed and fertilizer for the summer’s crops, and where they seek tips to maximize their harvest of corn and soybeans. They try to solve their own problems, whether it’s a busted tractor or a debilitating bout of anxiety. Maybe the weather is perfect for planting or harvesting.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Farming 88

Agwired

AUGUST 16, 2023

As harvest begins across the country, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) reminds farmers about the importance of taking the appropriate precautions to ensure treated seed does not enter the grain supply. Narrow operating windows make maximizing productivity essential during planting and harvest, regardless of farm size.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Synthetic fertilizers and genetic engineering are prohibited, among other measures. How much did you harvest? You can’t take your tractor into a conventional field, and then drive it into [your organic] garden…It’s only a matter of time before they see the horses the same way.” How much seed did you purchase?

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Food Farming Supply Chain Farming 82

Food Politics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Two charcoal filters, $400 apiece, protect operators in this John Deere tractor ( $67,000 in 2008), which takes $130 of diesel. Fertilizer prices, which soared in part because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have come down in recent months. But it remains a significant cost, the Dykemans said, at $200 per acre.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Fertilizer, fuel, and labor costs increase every year, while prices hardly change. In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., A ‘hand primer harvester’ at Scott Farms in Lucama, North Carolina. Photo by John West.

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