Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

of greenhouse gas emissions – conventional farming methods such as tractor usage and fertilizer production rely heavily on fossil fuels, and approximately 90% of global deforestation is caused by agriculture. According to OurWorldInData , agriculture, forestry, and land use directly account for 18.4%

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Agwired

JULY 25, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $90 million in 53 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) projects, which support the development of new tools, approaches, practices and technologies to further natural resource conservation on private lands. The advancement introduces a new approach to AI-powered farm management.

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it intends to establish the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council (informally known as the Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council) and is seeking nominations for Council membership. sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 18.6

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 22, 2021

And maybe ours are even more intense than “normal” drama, because we’ve got opinions and they have ample time to germinate and grow/fester as we drive our tractors, push hoes, or wash carrots stuck alone in our own minds. I like the constant learning and challenge of evolving the farm systems as new technology and research comes online.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A forthcoming analysis previewed exclusively by Grist found that, on average, the amount of time considered unsafe to work outside during a typical 9-to-5 workday will increase 8 percent by 2050, assuming greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D. Photography via Shutterstock.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

sales of Ag tractors decreased 14.2 agriculture, with enhanced implementation of conservation practices and emerging technologies, has an opportunity to more than offset its carbon footprint while increasing farmer profitability and farm resilience, according to a new report initiated by U.S. percent compared to 2023.

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Agwired

MAY 22, 2024

In a significant move to revolutionize greenhouse management, Sollum Technologies is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Damatex. This collaboration combines the greenhouse lighting control features of Sollum’s proprietary SUN as a Service cloud platform with Damatex’s advanced climate control systems.

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Agwired

JULY 14, 2023

Armstrong will remain on the air each week with Max’s Tractor Shed and special segments on “This Week in Agribusiness” Farm Aid 2023 is coming to Noblesville, Indiana, on Saturday, September 23. This includes Chief Marketing Officer Fred Nichols and Chief Financial Officer Steve Lunt, effective immediately.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As cornfields suffer crop damage caused by weather, corn producers can use geospatial and remote sensing technologies to get a more accurate measurement of the damage and estimate potential economic loss, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Agronomy. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued more than $1.77

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