Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Scutching takes the flax straw and separates the short fibers, long fibers, shives, and seeds, through mechanical crushing and threshing. Transporting large amounts of flax straw long distances to be processed is costly and environmentally damaging. After retting, the stalks are ready for scutching at a mill.

Textiles 88

Textiles Seeding Processing Straw 88

UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. Root crops and tuber beds are generally clean and free of residue after harvest, which make them an easy location to direct seed with any seeder, or broadcast seed, followed by applying a straw mulch.

Crop 105

Crop Cash Crop Seeding Harvest 105

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While you and I fill out licenses and sit in the auto mechanic's waiting room or cook dinner, our animals have 24/7/365 access to fool around. In her corral design work, Temple emphasizes that a tiny fluttering piece of straw on the wall of a chute might as well be an elephant-sized predator to a cow. It's just time.

Straw 52

Straw Mechanics Livestock Farming 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

However, if we over-manage a hedge or intervene by planting a single species or mechanically trimming the hedge too severely, too often or too early in the autumn, we risk suppressing its biodiversity potential. In the last couple of weeks our ‘messy’ hedges have been a heady mix of trailing rose, elderflowers and honeysuckle.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Meadow Straw 52

Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

It’s through this mechanism of co-selection—of being physically linked on the same pieces of genetic material,” Hansen said. Many report improvements on metrics like welfare-improving lighting and “enrichments,” a term for things like perches and straw bales added to barns that allow birds to express their natural behaviors.

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Production Poultry Food Farming 144