Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. Other questions include finding optimal grazing rates of sheep per acre, as well as other logistics.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. At the end of the day, it’s not economical for a blueberry farmer to do dual-use at the moment because of the shading and all of these logistics,” Calderwood said. Still, there were bright spots among the findings.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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Harvesting Harvester Harvest Farming 75

Civil Eats

JULY 29, 2024

In addition to authorizing a program that would put extra funds into low-income parents’ pockets for summer groceries, the lawmakers changed a longstanding provision that required schools to serve summer meals communally, eliminating the requirement for rural areas. We’re 100 percent rural, so we’re going everywhere,” she said.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 29, 2024

But as the company’s co-founders made calls to farming contacts beyond their home of Forest City, about 60 miles southeast of Asheville, Beam and Green learned that potable water was much harder to come by elsewhere in the region, especially in rural areas with challenging logistics.

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