Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides. For many farmers living in rural areas, this could mean being relegated to just a few options. Technology Is Changing Farming While Farm Lending Lags Behind New farm technology like AI has already irreversibly changed agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

She currently uses a tractor with an automatic steering system that improves planting and plowing efficiency and requires much less work, which she credits as one of the pivotal reasons shes able to successfully manage her hundreds of acres of fields on her own.

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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. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.)

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I was a kid, my mom has told me stories about family friends who were injured or killed when their tractors overturned — a leading cause of injury or death for farmers. 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

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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. These loans have a 15-year repayment period with fixed interest rates ranging from 1% - 3%.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds.

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