Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. I felt the tractor tilting over,” Langford recalls. “I In the end, the tractor landed on its left side; a roll bar above the seat prevented it from turning upside down.

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Tractor Farming Farming Acre 138

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

While Flores specializes in body mechanics and movement patterns, other farm fitness specialists are offering everything from high-intensity interval training to Pilates posters and yoga classes. Imagine muscle strains and sprains from lifting heavy grain bags or reacting swiftly to animals.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Tractor 120

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre). It is possible to no-till seed into soil without a no-till seeder.

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Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

It doesn’t provide a mechanism for individual farmers to become tax exempt from property taxes on their farmland. 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.

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Farming Farming Ruralism Farmland 59

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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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. In the past the farming industry has provided: The bulk of jobs in the countryside – farmworkers, contractors, wagon drivers and mechanics. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52