ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

Using tractors increases productivity and efficiency, leading to bigger harvests, better quality produce, and access to lucrative markets that require a larger volume of products. I am all too aware of the back pain that planting, weeding, and harvesting crops can lead to. Another barrier is knowledge.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The nature of agricultural employment often includes narrow windows for things like fresh produce harvest or other labor-intensive work. American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supply chain.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow. Harvest the leaves when young and tender, as older leaves can be fibrous. Usually, you have them when harvesting large amounts of root carrots for storage. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Of course, additional nutrients must be added into the system to replace minerals lost through harvest/animal losses. Both “cut and carry” and “chop and drop” allow for nutrient cycling, especially if the goat manure can be collected and used to fertilize the trees they are eating, closing that loop. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 26, 2024

(Traducción en Español abajo) Sustainable Harvest International welcomes its new Executive Director, Janeen Simon! Meet the SHI Global Team Conozca a nuestra nueva directora ejecutiva: Janeen Simon ¡Sustainable Harvest International le da la bienvenida a su nueva Directora Ejecutiva, Janeen Simon!

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He found that undersowing the clover was an amazing way to get the field covered by harvest. When he needed added biomass, he experimented with undersowing Dutch white clover into early harvested crops, mowing the post-harvest crop, and then drilling rye into the clover. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microgreens are young vegetables harvested just after the cotyledon leaves have developed, typically seven and 21 days. In contrast, sprouts are germinated seeds harvested much earlier, usually within two to seven days. This difference in harvesting time is just the beginning of what distinguishes these two nutritious greens.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), we support low-income farmers during their transition to sustainable practices. SHI-Panama partner farmer Melania Pérez harvests chili peppers and beans from her family garden. Family farmers are the backbone of rural communities.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supply chain. This damages American competitiveness and overall food and national security.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Food 130

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Planting, harvesting, breeding, raising livestock all require a period of waiting, but there are forms of waiting that can be minimized in farming operations, such as equipment repair, delayed harvest times due to unavailable labor, and delays of shipments of agricultural inputs. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here, farmers deliver freshly harvested produce to a brick-and-mortar retail shop with a full staff. For example, in 2016, after receiving a complaint, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) cited Argus for selling eggs from small farms that hadn’t processed their eggs in a licensed facility.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By Audrey Kolde , NCAT Agriculture Specialist As a nongenerational farmer, most of my agricultural experiences before entering the field of farming and food systems had huge impacts on my decision to farm, from childhood memories of wild blackberries to college-age harvesting of carrots. Jang seeder. That is impressive! ATTRA.NCAT.ORG. 

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Tools like webinars, informational Instagram posts, signs, QR codes, apps with geolocations of trees, trainings, plant identification walks, and learn-by-doing volunteer days are ways you can teach the public what a forest garden is, how to grow their own food, how to identify plants, and how to harvest.

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ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. The type of tea that grows from the typical tea bush is determined by various factors, including where and how the plant is grown, when the leaves are harvested, and the length of time the tea leaves are left to dry and oxidize.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These plants take their sweet time—around 18 months to two years before you can harvest their prized rhizomes. It’s a beautiful cycle of wasabi generosity. To be fair, growing wasabi isn’t exactly a fast-food affair. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. Sharecropping was a system in which the landowner permitted tenants to use their property for farming in exchange for housing and a share of farmers’ profits.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 2, 2024

High tunnel kale crop for harvest through the fall. Another window to plant cover crops in a high tunnel is in the spring when winter greens harvest is slowing. Spring-planted covers won’t fully develop before summer crops should be planted but they can still contribute to soil health. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Farm production for most of human history has been limited to the amount of human labor that was dedicated to the planting, harvesting, and processing of certain agriculture products. Farms employ many systems, including recordkeeping, accounting, transportation, storage, harvesting, marketing, information management, etc.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 15, 2023

To “every day do something that won’t compute… say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.” Inspired by Wendell’s Manifesto, I wanted to instill the place with the contradiction embodied in his poem. The quarter acre I steward in Northeastern Pennsylvania is, I hope, an incarnation of this contradiction.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Instead, Puglia’s olive sector is largely made up of small and medium-sized growers, many of them harvesting from simple family plots. Due to heat waves and drought in each of the past two years, the total olive harvest in Andalusia (and Spain more broadly) has been barely half what it had been in each of the previous five years.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recent Actions In recent years, and most noticeably during the supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, several agencies within the USDA – including Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service – have helped direct critical funding specifically to small and very small meat processing plants.

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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. Sharecropping was a system in which the landowner permitted tenants to use their property for farming in exchange for housing and a share of farmers profits.

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Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 8, 2024

That was the message from Florence Reed of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in late September. Other organizations featured included Patagonia Provisions, Amazon Frontlines, and the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA).

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Basil Gooden as USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development. Craig Curry, 70, a Protect The Harvest advisor since 2013, succumbed to a lengthy battle with health issues on Feb. A Greenwood, Ind.,

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. agricultural policy.

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Agwired

JANUARY 24, 2025

Area harvested for grain, at 82.9 Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development is excited to announce the launch of a new Clean Energy website , a proactive approach to promote clean energy projects in rural America. corn growers produced 14.9 billion bushels in 2024, down 3 percent from 2023. bushels per acre, 2.0

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