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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Tillable

AUGUST 13, 2024

Why Agribusinesses Need to Market and Sell Smarter using Ag-Specific Data Agriculture has long embraced data-driven tools to optimize crop yields, manage resources, and enhance farm efficiency. This disconnect can lead to missed opportunities, inefficient marketing spends, and, ultimately, lower sales.

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World Agri-Tech

AUGUST 2, 2024

This increase in data collection and use has tremendously improved yields for the industry. 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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Farmbrite

MAY 9, 2023

Low rainfall or drought will cause low yields, and heavy rain will damage or wipe out your crops. If your tractor breakdown, it will affect your ability to harvest and increase production costs. Cost of production: it depends on the input cost and yield, making it highly variable. High demand will affect the price positively.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

The bulletin says, “Iowa State University researchers generally recommend terminating the cover crop with herbicide 10-14 days prior to planting corn to protect yield; however, that time frame is less critical for soybeans.” The type of herbicide depends on which cover crop is used and the timing for spring planting. But the crop duster did.

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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

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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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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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Evidence shows there are no significant yield losses from planting seeds without neonic coatings. After five years and a 95 percent drop in the use of neonic-coated seeds, there have been no reported impacts on crop yields. They’re not in the business of selling seed that will yield less, so we just put our trust in them,” she said. “If

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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., Email * CAPTCHA Δ The stakes are higher now.

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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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