Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Smart Take-Off (STO): A plug connector that can be easily attached and provides power and data transfer between the tractor and tool implement attachments, replacing the industry-standard purely mechanical power take-off (PTO). SIS can either be placed directly on existing implements or on the tractor itself.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

During development, great importance was attached to shallow and all-over cutting, making the cultivator the specialist for conserving groundwater, preventing erosion, mechanically suppressing weeds and tillage for catch crops. The lightweight compact hitch-mounted reversible ploughs now round off the range for compact tractors up to 130 hp.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A refrigerated tank pulled by a tractor comes to the field at the end of milking and hauls all the milk to the farm’s bulk tank where it is picked up by a dairy processor. But numerous exhibits had drones to fly on chemicals and AI mechanisms to adjust chemical fertilizer. Milked out in the field, the cows don’t walk to a parlor.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees can also expect to learn more about the different kinds of beneficial biology and the biochemical mechanisms that enable soil microbes to benefit crops. To participate, farmers can submit a photo along with a brief explanation of why their tractor deserves to win at super-tractors.mymilesmatter.com/peopleschoice.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. However, most commercial market gardeners do not own or have access to a tractor driven no-till seeder with down pressure. It is possible to no-till seed into soil without a no-till seeder.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For individual adaptation to different working conditions, the KDS 255 has a hydraulic tailgate with a mechanically adjustable drop angle. A stone guard is mounted on the front wall to protect the tractor unit from falling stones. These are less susceptible to damage from stones or rocks and corrosive materials than a steel rear wall.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 29, 2024

To achieve this, the coulter system is available in a hydraulic version (up to 70 kg coulter pressure) and a mechanical version (up to 45 kg coulter pressure). A hydraulic tramline mechanism can be added as an option. The Solitair MR is equipped with the maintenance-free OptiDisc coulter bar with row spacings of 12.5

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Caff

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This modular, low-cost machine enables small vegetable, fruit, and horticulture farmers to reduce hand labor with expandable intelligent electrical horsepower while also offering an alternative for many tasks that would otherwise require a full-sized tractor.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 3, 2023

There are no consistently accessible mechanisms for sustainably disposing of plastic mulch film at the end of its life. Tractor laying plastic mulch ahead of the growing season. “It adds heat to the soil, which is really beneficial for a heat-loving crop like strawberries. But there is a critical downside.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

It doesn’t provide a mechanism for individual farmers to become tax exempt from property taxes on their farmland. Farm Equipment Tax Exemption IRS Section 179 allows farmers to deduct the cost of agriculture-related assets like tractors and grain bins from their gross income, reducing federal tax payments.

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Trimble Agriculture

MARCH 15, 2024

Examples include heavy tractor-trailer truck drivers, supervisors, farm mechanics, and agricultural construction workers. For non-standard H-2A occupations, the new rule requires employers to pay wages based on the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey data.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 23, 2024

Technology in agriculture production is not limited to machinery like tractors and combines, but also irrigation, hoop houses, hydroponics, animal breeding techniques, etc. Being strategic includes setting up mechanisms of holding the organization accountable to accomplish these tasks and goals.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Food production was at a premium, tractors appeared, and labour started to disappear from the farming scene. In the past the farming industry has provided: The bulk of jobs in the countryside – farmworkers, contractors, wagon drivers and mechanics. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour.

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Agwired

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. GROWMARK, Inc. has partnered with Optimus Technologies, Inc. ,

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Life is not mechanical. Food is biological, not mechanical. Our microbiome is fundamentally biological, not mechanical. The most significant difference between biology and mechanics is that one lives and one doesn't. Life is biological, and in biology scale matters. Machines generally become more efficient at scale.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Police and other first responders work the scene where 53 people died and multiple others suffered heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. He enjoys taking things apart and putting them back togetherMostly old telephones, he saidand he dreams of becoming a mechanic.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As a farmer, you might be a laborer, mechanic, artist, plumber, electrician, landscaper, entrepreneur, grower, inventor, salesperson, website designer, and honestly whatever else needs to be done. If you want to drive a tractor around a field but can't afford it, buying that tractor might be the end of your dream as a farmer.

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