Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

The members of trade association CropLife International have issued an Industry Declaration renewing and reaffirming their commitment to the principles and standards of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management. Campbell Tractor Co. , Campbell Tractor Co. ,

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Waste Reduction Adhering to waiting periods stipulated after the application of pesticides or other chemicals is key to food safety and regulatory compliance. Harvesting only after the waiting period expiration doing so, it also effectively prevents pesticide residue from entering the consumer food chain.

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Agwired

JULY 25, 2024

Monarch Tractor , creator of the MK-V, the world’s first fully electric, driver-optional smart tractor and Wingspan Ag Intelligence farm management platform, has announced a history-making $133 million Series C, making it the largest funding raising round in agricultural robotics history. The department awarded $1.72

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Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Dodon is not certified organic and still applies pesticides when needed, especially fungicides, which East Coast vineyards often rely on due to a much more humid climate than California’s. It is a rapidly growing category.” But the healthy soil dense with living roots has also prevented the vineyard from getting muddy and inaccessible.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. I was 10 years old when neighbors began using crop dusters to apply pesticides and herbicides. This means that many farmers continue to apply herbicides to eliminate a winter cover crop.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Implementing a crop rotation plan helps to prevent soil exhaustion and the build-up of pests and diseases Precision Farming Time to get tech-savvy with GPS-guided tractors and drones. Rather than relying solely on pesticides, develop an IPM strategy that combines biological controls, beneficial insects, and crop monitoring.

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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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DTN

AUGUST 29, 2023

EcoField data Inputs Soil type Tillage type Cover crop used Cash crop planted Fertilizer type Nitrogen application rate Irrigation used Crop drying used Pesticide category Machinery used Crop soil moisture Crop residue removal Nitrification inhibitor used Soil organic matter percent How does EcoField data work?

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

Production loans are issued to cover the cost of land purchases; equipment purchases such as tractors; seeds, fertilizers and chemicals needed for growing crops; breeding livestock like cows or pigs that produce milk; feeder cattle sold at auction markets, and more. Here are some other ideas on adding capital once you have land.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 22, 2021

And maybe ours are even more intense than “normal” drama, because we’ve got opinions and they have ample time to germinate and grow/fester as we drive our tractors, push hoes, or wash carrots stuck alone in our own minds.

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Farmbrite

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This information enables you to implement targeted pest management strategies, make informed decisions about pesticide use, and adopt integrated pest management practices. Precision agriculture involves using technology to optimize crop yields on a site-specific basis.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Farming coops can look into partnerships with beneficial businesses for things like tractors, cattle management software , crop management software , and other helpful partnerships. Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. Buy local when possible.)

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 6, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme has pegged the global food system and its encroachment on wildlife habitats, along with its use of fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals, as directly threatening 86 percent of species at risk of extinction worldwide.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Occasionally, we will work with a small tractor, but we use only very light equipment. We weren’t going to use fungicides, herbicides, nor pesticides — partly for the health of the land and the diversity of the ecosystem, and partly for our own health. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

Methadone was found in some soil samples; refrigerators, trucks, tractors were “recycled” in pits dug into hillsides; manure ponds burbled near an estero; and 10,000 tires had been piled in a ravine to stabilize soil depleted and eroding from generations worth of poor grazing practices. It was in a woeful state she calls “ Breaking-Bad bad.”

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. Once you find that sweet spot, then it’s time to invest in it and commit to making it work better.

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Farmbrite

MAY 9, 2023

If your tractor breakdown, it will affect your ability to harvest and increase production costs. Fertilizers will reduce the risk of low yields, and pesticides will minimize the risk of crop damage. If the above factors strike, you will lose the resources you spend tilling the land, planting, and fertilizing.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While the agrichemical industry claims farmers “carefully select the right pesticide for each pest and crop at issue” and “only use pesticides as a last resort,” when it comes to neonics, that is false in most cases. Chart showing the rise in the use of neonicotinoid pesticides between 1995 and 2011. This is true.

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Caff

APRIL 17, 2025

Additionally, something that Drew noticed when mowing with the tractor was lots of predatory (beneficial) insects on the front of the tractor and how a lot more of them will disperse to the trees as sheep graze since the sheep move slower, compared to working with the tractor.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

They had initially arranged to split responsibilities with Galens high-school-aged brother, but the plan fell apart only months later when he was killed in a tractor accident. Galen and Linda had been under tremendous stress since they took over the 160-acre family farm.

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