Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

On the other hand, plowing a field creates lots of resistance and, therefore, uses lots of energy. A shorter life expectancy, with fewer cycles required, opens up battery options to more cutting-edge and emerging technologies. Sometimes, this work is low intensity, such as mowing grass in large fields.

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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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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With more resources at her disposal than Pinto da Costa and Rabari, Hemmes is focused on how to ensure solo-farming operations like hers have access to the technology they need to overcome heat spells and never have to seriously consider an overnight harvest schedule. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. Precision Agriculture: Utilize precision technologies for accurate planting, resource allocation, and data-driven decision-making. Over time, they improve soil structure, reduce erosion, and increase soil moisture retention.

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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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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

The MIT Technology Review published a pair of articles critical of the general idea and of Running Tide specifically. 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.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

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. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule. A lot of our work is restoring the basic knowledge and traditions. That’s an important part of our work.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Its not overly reductive to say it boils down to a half century of intentional federal farm policy. In the years after World War II, U.S. farms in the upper Midwest underwent an industrial revolution. Will it work?

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Among its various proposals , the resolution said the government should work “collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible.”

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