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Farmer Focus: Keeping on top of drainage pays dividends

Farmers Weekly

It has taken four to five passes to get a seed-bed. On reflection, it might have been wiser to have shallow ploughed them in early August, and then got away with one pass […] The post Farmer Focus: Keeping on top of drainage pays dividends appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

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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Far Eastern Agriculture - Untitled Article

Far Eastern Agriculture

From ploughs to power harrows, flat cultivators and seed drills, Pöttinger has presented many interesting and innovative new products and features 1. AEROSEM VT with Profiline control system : The trailed pneumatic seed drill combinations AEROSEM VT 5000 DD and AEROSEM VT 6000 DD with working widths of 5.0

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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

RR2CS

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Jenna: I’m very inspired by Indigenous land stewards, many who are working with seed saving, including Tiffany Traverse at Fourth Sister Farm in Dawson Creek, B.C., Why are there not more BIPOC seed keepers? Does everyone have access to land?

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