Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The grape varieties and vegetables now optimally grown in the climate of Napa Valley, California today will have a tough time reaching harvest there in 2080, but can be more easily grown near the Willamette Valley and Portland, Oregon. The truck farms outside of Washington D.C. In the U.S.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 27, 2024

The initiative empowers farmers to integrate microbial fertilizers, organic matter, biological pest control, mechanized harvesting, and efficient water use to enhance soil health. The post Biome Makers Partners in Groundbreaking Sugarcane Sustainability Initiative appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harvesting salad greens can be a slow and labor-intensive process. With recent innovations that include the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester and the Baby Greens Harvester (a scaled up option not shown in this video) by Terrateck, small farms can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of their harvest.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The strategy utilizes a rotating mill that is attached to the combine during harvest to separate weed seeds and pulverize them. Proponents of the new method are hopeful that it will provide farmers with a way to combat the increasing number of herbicide-resistant weeds challenging farmers.

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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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Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2024

Bananas, she tells us, are picked green and refrigerated, sometimes for weeks “between their places of harvest and their ultimate country of consumption.” Those big expensive machines are not expected to last more than a few years, not because of the refrigeration mechanisms but because of the electronics. Well, they used to.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

AUGUST 5, 2024

As harvest season continues, all Southern Colorado farmers must ensure your agricultural equipment is in top working condition. Look for any signs of wear and tear, leaks, or mechanical issues. Look for any signs of corrosion, leaks, or mechanical problems. Pay particular attention to the engine, belts, and hydraulics.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

He oversees cattle care, mechanical work on equipment, and plays a key role in planting, harvesting, and managing seasonal help. Brandon Davis Brandon helps manage a 12,000-acre operation alongside his father, running a small cow-calf herd of 50 head.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 13, 2024

ICRISAT's solar-powered water hyacinth harvester, designed and fabricated in-house by a team of scientists received its first grant, boosting its ability to be used with ease by rural farming communities The solar-powered equipment offers substantial benefits, including 5060% savings in cost, time, and labour, while prioritising using clean energy.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

So, we metaphorically waged war against the weeds for about eight weeks, using mainly mechanical methods and also some hand weeding, not wanting to eliminate them, but to make sure that the crop predominated. If you are a carrot grower, the biggest challenge that needs to be overcome is weed control.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Seasonal Inspections: Thoroughly inspect each piece of machinery before heavy-use seasons, like planting or harvest, to ensure they’re in peak condition. Seasonal Farm Equipment Maintenance Full Inspection Before Peak Seasons: At the start of planting or harvest season, perform a thorough inspection of all tractor components.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One, it helps with the harvest. They invested in a mechanical harvester a few years ago. “In The harvester makes it possible to get berries visitors don’t pick and freeze them or put them into value-added products. U-pick serves several different roles,” said Jessica Sanford, co-owner of Adam’s Berry Farm in Vermont.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. But among the doom and gloom shine beacons of hope. They offer a blueprint for real people-centered climate action.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rice farmers are beginning to move from intensive rice farming – which involves three harvests each year with insecticides and fertilizers—to one organic rice season during wet periods and one shrimp season during times of salt water intrusion. COP28 can encourage a food system transformation based on the principles of agroecology.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

He’ll spend the day weeding and cleaning, then harvest the remaining fish in the next week or so. They’ll start their lives here, then cycle through a dozen similar impoundments—that together hold more than 20,000 fish at various stages of maturation—for about two years until they’re ready for harvest. “It

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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. Cramped muscles or a frazzled circulatory system from absorbing combine vibrations all day during harvest season.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Flax takes about 100 days to go from seed to harvest, and once planted, it needs little tending. Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing. Farmers can grow flax.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that. In addition, ammonium sulfate is broken down into sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ), a strong acid. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The farm’s adult and youth staff grow and harvest a variety of produce—satsumas, kale, carrots, okra, cherry tomatoes and basil—from the fields, fruit trees, and a memorial garden. Photo by Google Maps/Illustration by Bethany Atkinson / Deep South Today. Grow Dat has transformed its bit of land into a sustainability oasis.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. The system went backwards, and the soil is now very susceptible to compaction during fall harvest. The lack of living ground cover is the main culprit in soil collapse.

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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Here lies the challenge.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation. HARVESTING Harvest wheat when it reaches the optimum maturity stage. Harvesting too early or too late can result in reduced quality and yield.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Yet despite its 48V electric 8HP motor, this nimble machine gives farmers an impressive array of functions, from prepping beds to harvest to lifting hay bales or even autonomous missions controlled remotely. a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

We often hear about vertical farms using water sustainably, 95% less than traditional open field harvesting, to provide superior tasting crops. In this sense, vertical farms are able to spend more time enhancing nutritional value and less time worrying about the success of their harvest. The key here is the freshness of the crops.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

NASDA remains concerned that the proposed rule seeks to expand labor organizations’ access and input to the H-2A program in a manner that will be inefficient and potentially undermine the program’s goals and use it entirely as a labor organization mechanism.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Applying after a summer annual harvest (single cut scenario) that is then planted with annual ryegrass intended for a harvest later in the fall or next spring. Applying to Italian ryegrass forage after each harvest. We can graze cereal rye or triticale in the spring in lieu of mechanical harvest.

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World Agri-Tech

JULY 18, 2024

will now be able to provide growers participating in Predictable Commerce Programs with a financing mechanism to grow their business while reducing risk, through the assurance of an off-taker with committed demand and pricing. Through this partnership, Four Star Fruit, Inc.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2007, after the perennial berry had established, the Gelowitz’s enjoyed their first harvest. The Saskatoon berry harvest takes place anywhere from the third week of July to mid-August, depending on the weather. “We The harvester has a vibrating mechanism that shakes the berries off the branches and collects them onto a conveyor. “The

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You can harvest them after the cotyledon leaves have developed with one set of true leaves. The high nutrient density is because microgreens are harvested after germination when all nutrients for plant growth are still present. You can harvest most varieties of microgreens within 10 to 28 days of sowing the seed.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Oftentimes, companies seeking investment in technology that is at a pretty early stage are unclear how their systems can be integrated with existing automation and mechanization systems. Companies need to produce better quality with better consistency, harvest after harvest, especially at volume.

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Caff

JULY 19, 2023

the Lopes provided a great demonstration of the unique equipment involved in the establishment of the rice (rice flat tray machine) and the transplanter machine (used to mechanically transplant the rice plugs into the field) allowing the attendees a great visual of the process and commitment involved in establishing their rice paddy fields.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

CONTENT SOURCED FROM WIRED November 23, 2022 Jennifer Bousselot has had one hell of a summer harvest. On a commercial farm, crops are usually grown one at a time and tended with specialized equipment—you can’t plant wheat and carrots in the same field because they’re harvested in totally different ways.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees can also expect to learn more about the different kinds of beneficial biology and the biochemical mechanisms that enable soil microbes to benefit crops. The products, which are tested in multi-year, multi-harvest plots prior to release, are poised to fit the specific forage needs of farmers and ranchers. Register here.

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The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

High interest rates, erratic harvests, and deceptive landlords kept Black farmers trapped in cycles of debt and poverty, as they were forced to carry debt over to the following year. Consequently, Black farmers in the early 20th century lagged behind their White counterparts in agricultural mechanization.

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