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Farmer Focus: Glad to own machinery in wet drilling season

Farmers Weekly

Chasing the plough with the drill in between showers resulted in us slowly but surely getting […] The post Farmer Focus: Glad to own machinery in wet drilling season appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly The clocks have gone back and the dark nights are here – but let’s be honest, it’s felt like winter for a while now.

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AgriTechNZ News: Northern Hemisphere spotlight

Agritech NZ

This precedes an immersion trip later in the month, coinciding with the Irish National Ploughing Championships and World Agritech Innovation Summit in London. At the same time, there will be another cohort of New Zealand agritech interests attending the FIRA USA autonomous farming and robotics event in California.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

The certification, funded by the Rodale Institute, Patagonia and Dr Bronner’s, insists on five practices to improve soil health: integrating livestock, keeping the soil covered, minimizing soil disturbance, incorporating diversity and zero chemicals, as well as a soil test every three years. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot. If all the money put into food technology right now were instead ploughed into regenerative agriculture, investors would be “heroes for the planet,” adds Terry at GoodSam. By the end of last year, 19.7%