Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Protesting farmers with their tractors rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on Feb. When free trade was in its infancy back in 1979, thousands of farmers drove their tractors to DC to demand policy changes to address rising foreclosures and increases in input costs. In fact, US farmers in the past did so. Yes, they do.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Health Check Calculator Farm Cash Flow Statements: Key Terminology There are many different terms and documents for farm financing strategies. It categorizes cash flows into three main activities: operating, investing, and financing. To finance this capital expenditure, the farm drew $4,500 from a Line of Credit (LOC).

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But, because financing hasn’t evolved with them, it’s challenging for farmers to secure the capital they require to purchase land and invest in their operations. Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A refrigerated tank pulled by a tractor comes to the field at the end of milking and hauls all the milk to the farm’s bulk tank where it is picked up by a dairy processor. They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. But they are now.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 21, 2023

Financing Challenges : Securing financing for equipment purchases may be more complex than leasing, especially for smaller or newer farm operations. For example, if you decide to buy leased equipment or infrastructure outright, you’re able to do so with AgAmerica’s spectrum of financing options beyond leasing.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

Thirdly, it reflects Hinton’s desire to leave a legacy for tomorrows successors (consistent with the framed print on his home office wall); through the sharing of memories and stories of tractors long ago manufactured and used to farm with during a given era.” In-person & virtual registration options are available.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. Here are some options for financing your farm and getting access to land ownership: The government's Farm Service Agency provides loans to new farmers for land ownership.

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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. For her, the priority is “bringing a solution to the market that can also be localized.” LIVESTREAM HERE!

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Agwired

AUGUST 12, 2024

These improvements, part of the Enhancing Program Access and Delivery for Farm Loans rule , demonstrate USDA’s commitment to improving farm profitability through farm loans designed to provide important financing options used by producers to cover operating expenses and purchase land and equipment. Learn more at: Talking Tractors.com.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

Farm Equipment Tax Exemption IRS Section 179 allows farmers to deduct the cost of agriculture-related assets like tractors and grain bins from their gross income, reducing federal tax payments. In 2023, farmers could deduct up to $1.16 million from their income. With complex agricultural tax laws, navigating them can be tough.

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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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Tillable

AUGUST 13, 2024

To illustrate this, let’s consider three maps that can provide invaluable insights into your target market: Map 1: Volume of New 4WD Drive Ag Tractors and Combines Based on Financing This map shows where investment in new equipment is highest, indicating regions with a higher likelihood of growth and modernization.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In honor of those who served, Kubota Tractor Corporation announced a new partnership with Boot Campaign to support the organization’s work to restore the lives of veterans and military families through individualized, life-improving care. They will lead the organization for the next year.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

Before Leaf, these companies attempted to build massive data infrastructure to manage and reconcile all of the weather, irrigation, imagery, tractor, and other data they were collecting.

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Creative, Collaborative Financing Without Dirt Capital Partners and Foodshed Capital , this next chapter might not have been possible. Each—from Steward to Iroquois Valley to RSF Social Finance —uses a different approach to give a leg up to farmers who might not otherwise qualify for financing.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 22, 2021

Every year, we use language and science, biology, geometry, chemistry, marketing, financing, graphic designing, accounting computer programing, and a truly staggering amount of algebra. Bet you non-farmers didn’t know that!)

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Credit unions provide financial services tailored to the agricultural sector, helping farmers secure loans and manage their finances more effectively.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. After World War II, a second factor dramatically accelerated the Great Migration.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Heavy duty row crop tractor unit sales continued to increase in the U.S., while overall farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. 100+hp 2WD tractors, and 4WD tractors were the only segments to grow year-over-year. 100+hp 2WD tractors, and 4WD tractors were the only segments to grow year-over-year. In the U.S.,

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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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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. Additionally, the production equipment is a source of losses.

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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., Afterward, Batten made a video and posted it on social media. “I

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Hartwood Farm

MAY 15, 2022

If we lose a tunnel or a tractor, for the first time I don’t know if we could find or finance a replacment. Last week we had a few equipment breakdowns and seed failures and there wasn’t an easy replacement for some of them.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

There are many ways to find farm financing to help you get started. But getting financing isn't the only way, you can also hold a job that brings in the main form of income or have one person hold a job while the farm gets up and running. Some of these can also be rented or shared through CoOps. You're going to mess up.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Geological Survey data ) Rademacher said that many farmers he encounters have a vague, visceral sense that there may be risks associated with the colorful dust that blows into the air as the high-powered vacuum system shoots seeds into the ground and the tractor shakes and bumps around. According to U.S. That got Dengler’s attention.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Police and other first responders work the scene where 53 people died and multiple others suffered heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. Many of the families drained their savings or took out loans to finance their relatives journey. AP Photo/Eric Gay, File.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 14, 2025

Last year, for example, Burkett financed a tractor with a cooperative credit institution that Burkett has been a member of for over 30 years. They took that tractor for collateral, and then they took another one of my tractors and a piece of my equipment, Burkett says.

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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. Melka wrote his shareholders to say that his attempts to obtain bridge financing had gone nowhere.

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