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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

The stockpiled feed helps us be more profitable because we are not feeding as much hay, and it also provides more opportunities to keep animals out on the landscape gathering their own feed, instead of us supplying it with a tractor. We had 200-plus acres of stockpile from the previous year to graze throughout the green up process.

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AI and Agriculture: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Farming and Finance

Trimble Agriculture

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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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

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. Growers get discounted dumping fees for cleaning, separating, and bundling products, all of which streamline the recycling process.)

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Where your (ultraprocessed) food comes from

Food Environment and Reporting Network

They provide feed for the livestock whose meat and dairy make fast-food chains and deli counters hum, and their derivatives provide a huge proportion of the fat, sweeteners, and other additives that make processed treats so hard to resist. Most of that came in the form of fat added to processed food.

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