Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. While market uncertainty persists, projected prices decline further for crops harvested in 2024, and net farm income falls to the lowest level since 2020. Register for AgCon2024.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

On the other hand, plowing a field creates lots of resistance and, therefore, uses lots of energy. They could sit dormant for large portions of the year, but come harvesting time on a large farm, they could be running 24/7 for days at a time. Sometimes, this work is low intensity, such as mowing grass in large fields.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here. It is located on 1.2

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils. For instance, funding for the development of perennial crops that yield multiple harvests over several years after just a single planting has been miniscule. In the U.S.,

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Overgrazing pasture is a negative disturbance just the same as plowing or spraying, so minimizing the negative compounding, cascading effects through adequate rest and recovery is key. IF there was good yielding, high brix forage underneath the snow, the cows plow through it without regard for snow depth.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. 28, 2019.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. I don’t blame them.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock. Raised in Farmville and Compton, California. Eulalia Williams. We plant corn, plant fish heads under the corn.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

million acres in 2020 and, in 2017, damaged the wine grape harvest, resulting in an economic loss of roughly $75 million for the state. We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The Wildfires in California burned up more than 4.2

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Department of Agriculture and food giants such as Land O’Lakes, Corteva, Bayer, and Cargill are paying farmers millions of dollars to sow rye, clover, radishes or other crops after, or even before, they harvest their corn and soybeans. And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Its not overly reductive to say it boils down to a half century of intentional federal farm policy. In the years after World War II, U.S. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution.

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