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One Farmer’s Regenerative Journey: Part 2

UnderstandingAg

Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers. In year two and three there was a slump in yield, plant health and almost no soil aggregation. Screw ups happen.

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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

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. As contamination rose, crop yields fell by 15 percent. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.)

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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. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.

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More regenerative farming may be a climate solution. But another climate solution is impeding its progress

The Counter

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. Here in the U.S.,

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The Night Shift

Modern Farmer

The conditions impacted crop yields, livestock, the transportation of goods, and the larger supply chain. Its also an area that has been battered by human-caused climate change. In fact, scientists just recently declared an end to the drought that had devastated the region for a whopping 203 weeks.