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Farmers Weekly At 94, Basil George is almost certainly one of the UK’s oldest ploughmen, turning over the soil on Sunday (10 September) at the ploughing match he co-founded in South Wales.
Catching up with friends. […] The post Will’s World: Ploughing and the pursuit of happiness appeared first on Farmers Weekly A nice pint in a pub with an open fire. Seeing the sun rise. Singing along to my favourite song on a car journey. Eating a decent steak.
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From ploughs to seed drills to crop care machines, arable farming specialist Pöttinger, has a colourful bouquet of innovations lined up for the new season
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The vehicle has been designed for a wide range of applications in the agricultural field, including wine vineyards, with its six independent drive motors and a standard three-point hitch allowing it plough, haul and carry out a broad variety of other tasks. For more information, visit: [link]
The vehicle has been designed for a wide range of applications in the agricultural field, including wine vineyards, with its six independent drive motors and a standard three-point hitch allowing it plough, haul and carry out a broad variety of other tasks. For more information, visit: [link]
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Doing no-till while using [glyphosate] is not going to regenerate the planet,” says Whitlow, who points to the spectrum of regenerative farmers, some who prefer not to plough but still spray herbicides.
America’s recent history with farming in the Midwest sees a change from horse-and-ploughs to tractors during the 1930s and 40s – especially after World War 2. During the 1980s, more farms were shuttered and many destroyed – buildings torn down and ploughed under for bigger farms to plant even more acres.
Instead, deep ploughing to create intensive cropland tore up the native grass cover, leaving soils exposed and friable. The disaster , which left over 500,000 Americans homeless, intensified the Great Depression and devastated the region’s ecology.
Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. When they discovered that the farm is set on a prehistoric lake bed, a natural water reservoir for the community, they felt an additional responsibility to plant native trees and shrubs to steward the water resource.
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If all the money put into food technology right now were instead ploughed into regenerative agriculture, investors would be “heroes for the planet,” adds Terry at GoodSam. There are “strong indications” that regenerative agriculture soils and crops are much more resilient vis-à-vis extreme weather events, he explains.
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