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AgriTechNZ News: Northern Hemisphere spotlight

Agritech NZ

This precedes an immersion trip later in the month, coinciding with the Irish National Ploughing Championships and World Agritech Innovation Summit in London. PICMI has streamlined paperless seasonal hiring with an instant end-to-end application process.

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“Bristol’s last working farm”: A farm for the future

Sustainable Food Trust

Catherine Withers explains the honey extraction process to green social prescribing participants Catherine knows that the fight to protect her beloved farm is part of a bigger campaign for urban green spaces and the return of localised food production. It is a gem that Bristol should cherish, and a model of how future farming should be.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

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. Her family farm has been organic certified since 2006, but it only adopted the ROC standards in June 2022. There are currently 8.3

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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Measuring and valuing: Soil

Sustainable Food Trust

Reflecting on this miraculous process of renewal, American poet, Walt Whitman, expressed awe, bordering on horror, when he wrote: “What chemistry! Instead, deep ploughing to create intensive cropland tore up the native grass cover, leaving soils exposed and friable.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

They’re also in the process of establishing a shelter belt and heirloom flower garden. Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Instead, they set their sights northwest of the city and came to fall in love with 160-acres of “rough northern bush” in Barrhead County.

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