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The Case for Tractor Farming

ATTRA

With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming. 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.

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Tractor Rollovers Kill Dozens on Farms Each Year—and a Prevention Program Is at Risk

Civil Eats

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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Guide to Farm Equipment Care and Maintenance

Farmbrite

Whether you have a tractor, farm truck, or combine, you know that efficiently maintaining your farm equipment is crucial for maximizing productivity, prolonging machinery life, and ensuring a safe working environment. Different types of equipment require various fluids to function optimally. Clean off any excess dirt or rust, if possible.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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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For Farmers, Fitness Programs Can Improve Mental Health, Too

Civil Eats

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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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

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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Winners of the 2022 Small Farm Innovation Challenge

Caff

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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