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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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.” Photo credit: Stolpman Vineyards What’s critical to making it all work, he adds, is lights. And it is why illumination standards are critical.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In his case, this means a team of Suffolk Punch draft horses, but the same apparatus can be hitched to a tractor. Davis helped him modify his tractor so that he could cultivate his fields and apply urine in one pass. But the greatest obstacle to making peecycling mainstream may not be logistic or regulatory at all.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest. Over the years, the construction industry has used salt hay for insulation, livestock farmers use it for animal bedding, and berry growers mulch with it, since it is naturally free of weed seeds.

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Agritech NZ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Our multi-purpose vehicle replaces tractors and other tools. In addition, its robotic automatic log scaling machines are transforming port logistics with improved safety and productivity. Saunders says that for automation to be adopted, it must also provide a good return on investment.

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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.” What’s critical to making it all work, he adds, is lights. And it is why illumination standards are critical.”

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Farming 75

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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Civil Eats

JULY 29, 2024

But while the policy tweak may be simple, the 400 professionals at the conference were there to talk about the hard part: logistics. As the two rearranged bins filled with bags of food so that cartons of milk jugs wouldn’t fall over in transit, a tractor trailer pulled in. Produce is here!”

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