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The Sharp Edge: Planting big acres and mitigating compaction with Cliff Horst

Real Agriculture

Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont., The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. Isaacs face lit up as she reminisced about their amazing first harvest of four varieties.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. All his siblings left, too.

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Precision Ag News 12/19

Agwired

The data can be visualized and used to create maps for variable rate application of seeding, fertigation, and irrigation, and harvest yield maps can be added for planning future seasons. Seeds treated with new BioBoost start out strong and get season-long nutritional benefits. sales of tractors in all classes dropped 14.5

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. To fill up two barns, it would take us about nine hours, he says.

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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

Corn and soybeans will grow here sporadically; however, wet falls or an early freeze usually prevent harvest. What I found was the first year following the plow, the new crop looked great, but I now realize that this was the result of a release of carbon from the soil propping up the new seeding. Screw ups happen.

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