Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

“We try to bring back the climax vegetation , to encourage the vegetation to return to its most productive and stable state,” says Steward. million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over. It’s about a 30-percent increase in productivity,” says Steward. In 2021, roughly 1.6

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Weve actually been working more hours with less food, with less production, said Pinto da Costa, noting that working at night has made their work less efficient and led them to find less fish. to beat the heat, collecting milk from their buffalo and preparing products to sell in the market during the dusky hours of the morning.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 31, 2023

Satellite data will assist Origin Digital’s service GrassMax in providing users precise information about their fields, which program founders hope will lead to increased productivity and profitability for farmers. Agriculture technology has grown leaps and bounds over the last generation, says Holden. “We

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At its core, it’s about working with nature, rather than against it, to achieve sustainable and resilient food production. Excessive or deep plowing disrupts the soil structure, releases stored carbon, and can lead to erosion. The post Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming first appeared on Cropaia.

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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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Cropaia

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Micronutrients, though required in small quantities, are essential for plant growth and productivity. In conventional tillage, plowing redistributes nutrients across the soil profile, mixing organic matter and nutrients from the surface with deeper soil layers.

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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 And Melvin says grocery and retail standards are strict when it comes to acceptable product size and colour. "If

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

For example, it can assist in monitoring crops, optimizing irrigation, and even predicting weather patterns to make farming more efficient and productive. AI integration can help farmers better analyze data, make predictions, and solve problems. Nearly everyone agrees that AI will be an integral part of agriculture’s future.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The operation produces certified organic snail meat, snail slime, and related beauty products. 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

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But despite the often harsh conditions, agriculture is a key cog in the Australian export economy, with grazing livestock and cereal grain production being the two major pillars. This would not only slash methane emissions but also reduce the land use impact of livestock by eliminating the need for extra grain production as feed.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 7, 2021

From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. Stockman Grass Farmer is the world's leading publication dedicated to pastured livestock production and it has been my compass of direction and fount of inspiration for 40 years. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. From research to stories from the field, the 2023 GAP Report explores the opportunities and barriers to farmer access and adoption of proven, appropriate tools for sustainable agricultural productivity growth.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. full_link READ MORE How farmers in Canada’s north are trying to grow local food production by tweaking some prairie staples.

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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. A garden is best observed from the vantage one gets from leaning on a reliable friend.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. The FSA makes loans in three categories: operating, production and conservation. Operating loans are used for operating expenses such as labor costs, seed, fertilizer and other supplies needed for crop production.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. 2. Enhanced Crop Productivity Yield Stability While no-till and reduced-till systems may not always result in immediate yield increases, they often provide more stable yields over time.

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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. He also signed up to raise cover crops for seed production, which qualified him for the alternative crop portion of the initiative.

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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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The Counter

APRIL 27, 2022

All around Cobb, land-owning neighbors are beginning to lease out their fertile farmland—not to farmers, but to solar companies, taking that land out of production at a time when more, not less, farmland is needed to grow our food. The country is also looking to use agrivoltaics as a potential way to get abandoned farmland back in production.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. They are summarized below.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A lot of that application is submitting records and forms and attestations and showing how you can trace products from seeds to end sales. Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” of rain in six weeks we saw last summer!

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

More importantly, the agency aims to catalyze new, premium markets for products such as climate-smart corn, soybeans, and beef, which it hopes will spur farmers to continue these practices far into the future. The emerging market for climate-friendly products, he added, represents “a transformational opportunity for U.S. agriculture.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. Five percent in agriculture is a big deal, especially in a very high-production region,” says the study’s author David Lobell, a food security researcher at Stanford University. That’s many millions of tons of grain.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

That’s how the oral history project is growing BIPOC growers, acting as a bridge across this huge geographical divide that is the product of the Great Migration and aggravated by that history. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. Adeeb: We’ve found seeds bred by incarcerated people.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

These crops are the raw materials the food industry transforms into the dizzying array of products that fill hundreds of millions of bellies every day. Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. cropland an area equal to 1.7 Californias.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 23, 2024

For the less familiar, it is a sprawling “omnibus” legislation that shapes production of agricultural commodities and contains provisions on agricultural research, farm credit, insurance, rural development, trade, conservation, and nutrition—notably the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

His idea of farm production is growing flowers in Harvard Yard,” Quayle said of the Massachusetts governor. Instead, Brownell argued, we should treat obesity as a product of the physical and economic environments in which we live. It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger. I’m stopped.” Panic ensued.

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