UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

Corn and soybeans will grow here sporadically; however, wet falls or an early freeze usually prevent harvest. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers. Screw ups happen.

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Plowing Pasture Seeding Cattle 95

UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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Pasture Forage Livestock Manure 105

Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Individual days and weeks can sometimes seem so long (especially when that harvest list runs onto three pages!), When you think of farming, likely tractors and planting and weeding pop into your brain. Note Beulah’s careful supervision of the plow. Can our harvesting metrics improve?

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Plowing Greenhouse Harvesting Harvest 52

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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Agriculture Agriculture Food Harvesting 75

Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

In case of agriculture machines such as tractors, electrification presents some unique challenges. Energy consumption The first challenge is that the use case of tractors is incredibly energy-intensive. For the most part, the purpose of a tractor is to drag machinery through a field.

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Tractor Construction Technology Plowing 40

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.

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Food Crop Processing Tractor 61