Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The phrase work smarter, not harder is perhaps best applied when you’ve got no other choice — a one-person or two-person farm has no choice but to get creative when it comes to handling grain, the logistics of seeding and harvest, and more. But it’s not just farms with only a few people that benefit. Read More

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Logistics Farming Farming Seeding 288

NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

More than twice as many Americans are manufacturing agricultural products as are manufacturing cars and trucks, and millions of food scientists, production workers, logistics experts, truck drivers, and engineers work in more than 200,000 food manufacturing, processing, and storage facilities. While our two million U.S.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Food 130

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. But Walmart’s business model appears otherwise unchanged, and its suppliers say the company’s foundational obsession with cost hasn’t waned.

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Supply Chain Food Agriculture Agriculture 117

Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Over the years, the construction industry has used salt hay for insulation, livestock farmers use it for animal bedding, and berry growers mulch with it, since it is naturally free of weed seeds. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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