Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) provides loans to farmers who are unable to obtain financing from commercial sources.

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Agwired

MAY 22, 2024

The six-week virtual program is hosted and coordinated by America’s Cultivation Corridor , providing participants a unique experience featuring mentorship, interaction with Iowa’s agricultural leaders and an online curriculum that included regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Having good seed won’t help you if your entire farm gets flooded,” says Sara Scherr, President and CEO of EcoAgriculture Partners. 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.

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World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Crop insurance, seed & chemical, biotech, AgTech, cooperatives, and other companies all use farm data to improve their existing services and offer new products. However, it has also presented a new issue of data management and reconciliation.

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Farmbrite

MAY 9, 2023

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. And financing the production depends on the ability to borrow money. Some fundamental decisions include the crop, seeding rate, and fertilizer levels.

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Hartwood Farm

MAY 15, 2022

Last week we had a few equipment breakdowns and seed failures and there wasn’t an easy replacement for some of them. If we lose a tunnel or a tractor, for the first time I don’t know if we could find or finance a replacment. And this is where I worry, because we are all scraping and stretching so much thinner now.

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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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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Methadone was found in some soil samples; refrigerators, trucks, tractors were “recycled” in pits dug into hillsides; manure ponds burbled near an estero; and 10,000 tires had been piled in a ravine to stabilize soil depleted and eroding from generations worth of poor grazing practices. Once again, it mostly comes down to finance. “A

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rob-See-Co , an independent seed company located in Elkhorn, Neb. Heavy duty row crop tractor unit sales continued to increase in the U.S., while overall farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. Heavy duty row crop tractor unit sales continued to increase in the U.S., while overall farm tractor unit sales in the U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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? In March 2003, a North Carolina tobacco farmer named Dwight Watson drove his tractor all the way north to Washington, D.C., But someone has to be the last one holding the seeds.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

What Our Investigation Revealed Nearly all commodity corn farmers receive seed coated with neonics each season. Many cannot identify the chemical coating on their seeds and only opt for it because a seed salesperson recommends it. Evidence shows there are no significant yield losses from planting seeds without neonic coatings.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Besides land, you may also need to purchase or lease other equipment, livestock, seeds, and other materials. There are many ways to find farm financing to help you get started. If you want to drive a tractor around a field but can't afford it, buying that tractor might be the end of your dream as a farmer.

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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. A million palm seeds were soon imported from Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ivory Coast.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

Those involved in the convening realized that access to creditwhich provides the startup capital that most farmers seek to purchase supplies, seeds, and technologycontinued to be one of the most significant barriers to low-resource farmers in the region.

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