Farm QA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Compaction can be caused by wheel tracks, plow or tillage pans, or deep compaction, which can be natural. Compaction occurs when soil particles get pressed together, reducing the pore space and increasing the soil density. This results in reduced root growth, water infiltration, and poor drainage.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover. Then once again, a spring plow down and re-establishment of the white clover after transplanting.

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Agwired

MARCH 22, 2024

Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. The conference is scheduled for April 11-12 in Overland Park, Kansas. Register for AgCon2024. The American Farm Bureau Federation and Louisiana Farm Bureau presented Rep.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over. A lot of the new land that’s getting plowed up is soil that isn’t necessarily going to sustain farming for the long term. It’s a difficult job to keep grasslands across the US in the best shape possible. In 2021, roughly 1.6

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Note Beulah’s careful supervision of the plow. For some reason, the plow and the field conditioner (but not any of our ten other tractor implements) require constant monitoring? In 2021, we took out a loan to build a shiny new heated greenhouse. So greens spinners and more shade tents and things on wheels.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils. Growers in India and Guatemala are forsaking monocropping of their staple foods in favor of more diverse vegetables, fruits, and herbs, and deploying new irrigation methods to preserve water.

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ATTRA

JULY 11, 2023

When he dug deeper (literally) he saw that the soils farmers were working with had an impenetrable plow pan layer about 6 inches below the surface, so the cotton plant roots could not access the nutrients they needed, even though the nutrients were present. The soil had lost its structure because of the way it was being managed.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In conventional tillage, plowing redistributes nutrients across the soil profile, mixing organic matter and nutrients from the surface with deeper soil layers. Why Micronutrient Deficiencies Occur in No-Till Systems Nutrient Stratification One of the key challenges in no-till systems is nutrient stratification.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 8, 2023

with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 31, 2023

My father initially started off plowing with a horse, and here we are talking about using satellite data to measure grass at home. Agriculture technology has grown leaps and bounds over the last generation, says Holden. “We We have a small farm at home as well. It’s amazing what happens in a short space of time.”

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau presented Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)

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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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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

(ME) Lon Lon Agro LTD (MD) Maine Farmland Trust New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (MA) Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Pasa Sustainable Agriculture (regional) Pittsburgh Food Policy Council (PA) Plow and Stars Farm (MD) Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VA) Waterkeepers Chesapeake Fair Farms Initiative (MD, VA, WV, PA, (..)

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

On the other hand, plowing a field creates lots of resistance and, therefore, uses lots of energy. Sometimes, this work is low intensity, such as mowing grass in large fields. Here, the mower attachment isn’t too heavy and creates little resistance with the ground.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Excessive or deep plowing disrupts the soil structure, releases stored carbon, and can lead to erosion. Key Practices of Regenerative Agriculture Soil Management Techniques No-Till or reduced tillage : One of the fundamental principles of regenerative agriculture is minimizing or eliminating tillage.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence. Leverage remote sensing to assess environmental impacts About one-third of the data needed to assess a field’s environmental impact can be provided by remote sensing.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. I've concluded that both camps have merit and it depends on immediate objectives and circumstances as to which theme to employ. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. The following year it was solid weeds.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Seeds can be sown in the broken-down residue of the previous crop, allowing soil microbes to naturally break down roots and feed the new plants without being minced up by the plow, while weeds are suppressed by the existing ground cover.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. Last May, on the 10th according to my notebook, I stared at five feet of my cover crop’s spring growth.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. Over time, they improve soil structure, reduce erosion, and increase soil moisture retention. One of the defining features of no-till farming is the minimal disturbance of the soil.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2 hectares of land upon which Mattia has created 38 pens, each 120m2 in size. So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These sections of interstate were plowed through communities of color in the 1950s and 60s very deliberately. These old logging roads have been obliterated by the forest service and various conservation groups over the years, so that’s a good example. I also talk about the removal of urban freeways as well.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 30, 2024

We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The It took weeks to get to everyone, and then snow was so deep that it took excavators to clear paths to bury animals that didn’t make it through the storm.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field. The widespread practice, which took place through the late aughts, “had a deleterious effect on soil quality,” says Richard H.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

They have to work outside jobs to get health insurance; when they come home, they must feed the animals, repair the fences, help a cow give birth and plow the fields. “It’s The increasing cost of health care has limited the ability of some U.S. farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” Year Two (2013): little did we know that this field would be one of our problem children… the next year we put it all into strawberries and then it rained so hard the water table submerged them all!

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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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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We No farmer grows food to then plow it under," Nikkel said.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. Now, climate-smart agriculture aims to recapture some of that carbon. “A 28, 2019.

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