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Nature and Scope of Farm Management

Agric4profits

Agriculture is regarded as the art and science of cultivating crops, raising livestock, provision of raw materials for agro-allied industries, and marketing of agricultural produce for mans use. Agricultural Economics involves the… Read More » Nature and Scope of Farm Management

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Letter supporting farm bill orphan programs

NASDA

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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Corteva Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Technology

World Agri-Tech

Accelerate the speed to market of new elite germplasm by increasing the scale of parent seed production over competitors’ technology. Internal yield trial testing; 2 years of testing with 6-10 locations/year in each of the market classes. Hard Red Winter testing in NE, KS, CO, OK. Hard Red Winter testing in NE, KS, CO, OK.

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Nurturing a Path to Success for Small, Sustainable Sheepherders

Food Tank

Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. In 2022 lamb market prices fell by more than 50 percent across the U.S. “If

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Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Nov. 16

Food Tank

Powerful Quotes From Recent Discussions “The soil health in a place determines the health of the people that live there. The soil health is a perfect mirror of the people. Solidarity in climate finance gives us the power to address food insecurity and enhance peace, security, and development.” — H.E.

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Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. It would also help sell a portion of the farm’s produce at regional farmers markets.

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Creating Living Landscapes

UnderstandingAg

For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.