Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.) plastics policy. Depending on [those] factors,” she adds,” everything is scalable.”

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides. Technology Is Changing Farming While Farm Lending Lags Behind New farm technology like AI has already irreversibly changed agriculture.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. You should also determine if there are any restrictions on how you can use the land (for example: no pesticides). Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Their dad and grandpa spent their lives getting rid of all the weeds and they wanted [the land] to be black and plowed because that’s the way successful farming looks and feels,” Cobb said. Landowners Cobb leased from were similarly averse to mixing things up. Some of the challenges can be impossible to plan for.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.

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