USDA Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The front axle of my dads tractor had broken in half, and he had jumped off the tractor before it tipped over. On April 10, 2024, I received a call from my dad asking me to come help him at our family farm there had been an accident. When I arrived at the farm, my dad couldnt walk. for evaluation of his leg.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Photo credit: Lisa Held) Still, it’s a bumpy farm road ahead: no smooth pavement, with deep potholes to navigate around and animals running in front of the tractor. Not only does she see a future of collaboration among the farmers in this corner of rural Maryland, she wants to feed the people who live here, too. “A

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? The money to sustain the rural environment.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2025

sales of Ag tractors and combines fell in December 2024 compared to the year before. Sales of Ag tractors fell 11.3 In Canada, 10 rural municipalities in Quebec and three counties across Manitoba and Ontario reported SCN for the first time over that three-year span. percent while combine sales fell 26.4

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Editors Note: This is the inaugural edition of our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonders geographer and data reporter. Cut-your-own Christmas tree farms are part of a growing agritourism movement in rural communities, according to the USDA.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 6, 2023

As rural researchers , our conversations with policymakers suggest that there may be bipartisan support to help increase access to affordable quality rural child care as lawmakers hear from families. Growing up on a farm can be fun and educational, even as parents worry about risks.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

million in 2020, Boehnlein worked with Snohomish County to pass the Rural Village Housing Demonstration Program ordinance in 2023. Aiello drives a shared tractor. It certainly wasn’t going to be something that was affordable to another farmer, says Dave Boehnlein, one of the founders of Rooted Northwest.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 5, 2024

Mountain ranges trap emissions from highway traffic, locomotives, municipal composting facilities, tractors, and burning. stems from burning, soil management, and gaseous emissions from both tractors and soil. But Ansalem would like to see tractors face the same regulation as other vehicles in the state.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Land access was the first step.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As the Industrial Revolution progressed, we started using more advanced equipment that could be pulled by horses, and of course today we have individual tractors that can do the work of hundreds of horses (627 horsepower is apparently the highest as of 2023). Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5

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Daily Yonder

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers believe it’s not just because many farmers have other risk factors, such as rural addresses and access to guns. They try to solve their own problems, whether it’s a busted tractor or a debilitating bout of anxiety. But in rural areas, many lack access to mental health care.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. I’ve gone on far too long in this response, but I’ll close by saying: I understand the challenges of rural communities and small and midsized farming because I’ve lived them.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 4, 2024

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. The rural areas they live in suffer from shortages of doctors and hospitals. The quality of rural care can be low.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. But rural America still relies on electrical co-ops , which depend mostly on fossil fuels. There is some hope for change, though. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act directed $9.7

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

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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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

In this article, we outline the impact of rising property taxes on agriculture and explain ways rural landowners can reduce their tax burden. More people were moving to Rural America than moving out. The Problem: Why Farm Property Taxes Are Rising After nearly a decade of negative migration, COVID-19 spurred a major change in 2020.

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Agwired

MARCH 14, 2024

economy and rural communities. Unit sales of 100+ horsepower ag tractors increased slightly in February 2024 in the U.S., Unit sales of 100+ horsepower ag tractors increased slightly in February 2024 in the U.S., Year-to-date data, however, reflects sales are below 2023 in total units of ag tractors and combines.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The regional TV news on Monday 20 th February ran a big piece featuring Mark Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, Lesley Griffiths, Minister for Rural Affairs and others, covering the protests and the Government’s defence of the new Sustainable Farming Scheme , with both the Welsh farmers’ unions, NFU Cymru and the Farmers Union of Wales, out on their (..)

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. The constant freeze-thaw cycles of the eastern part of the U.S. create ankle-busting holes and ruts that are maddening and dangerous to humans and beasts.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 20, 2023

dollar is beginning to take a disproportionate toll on rural industries like agriculture, forest products, mining and manufacturing. That disproportionally hurts the backbone of the rural economy, according to a new quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange. Kubota Tractor Corporation and Trackhouse Racing announced the Nos.

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Agwired

MAY 28, 2024

8R Autonomous Tractor Farmers never have a shortage of work to do on any given day. Connectivity is crucial to a farm’s operation; however, most farms are in rural communities where connectivity challenges persist. He says they leave with a better understand of what agriculture is all about. Here are some of the items on display.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Instead of just announcing it, let people really, really know what’s in it and how to take advantage of it—especially rural people and people of color. Do you know what it would mean to have access to a new tractor to do some of the work we need done in these fields? Calvin Head working at Milestone Cooperative.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Instead of just announcing it, let people really, really know what’s in it and how to take advantage of it—especially rural people and people of color. Do you know what it would mean to have access to a new tractor to do some of the work we need done in these fields? Calvin Head working at Milestone Cooperative.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Lawn mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, tractors, and trimmers can all spark a wildland fire if used during the wrong time of year,” Garrett says. In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We’re on a mission to celebrate Rural America—and we’re just getting started. In just half a year, podcast host Pat Spinosa and team collaborated with homegrown stars with rural beginnings across the nation to create nine episodes filled with stories of perseverance, grit, and a bit of anecdotal humor.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. Tractors and More A third bucket of research questions under the Department of Energy grant will focus on farm equipment.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For many farmers living in rural areas, this could mean being relegated to just a few options. Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides. Additionally, only four organizations are capable of lending to farms across the entire U.S.,

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Although tractors eventually usurped draft animals on most farms, ranches, and forests, some teamsters have kept the traditions alive. For centuries , draft animals were the premier power source for agriculture.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

Campbell Tractor Co. , With six locations across these states, Campbell Tractor continues its legacy of offering quality agricultural products and services by incorporating this cutting-edge technology into its lineup. In a new strategic partnership with Cal.net , headquartered in Shingle Springs, Calif.,

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. Emmett Gartner covers accountability and Maine’s rural communities as a Roy W. In addition to wearing hard hats, farm workers must use smaller, specialized equipment to access the bushes.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper. In fact, farm chemicals have created a multi-generational and slow-motion health epidemic across rural America and its diaspora. Even Perrizo in Faribault County used herbicides to terminate his.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Strategies to reduce transportation waste include optimizing field layouts to minimize the distance used by your tractors and travel in your irrigation systems, and implementing precision agriculture technology that can assist equipment in choosing pre-plan routes that optimize distances traveled. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tractor Tuesday , a new online auction platform for agriculture machinery, proudly presents Farm Athletes, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to supporting NCAA college athletes from farm and ranch backgrounds. Shannon Peel will peel back the layers between brand and ideal customer to find common threads to weave relatable stories.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 21, 2023

More than 20 people showed up to help build chicken tractors, put up fencing, flip beds and even sift worm castings. At 27, I was living with my co-parent and one-year-old child on 10 acres of land in rural Oregon. Earlier this year, I put a call out for help preparing my farm for spring. I never set out to be a farmer.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

We haul them on the back of the pickup or we can use straps and the scoop of the tractor. 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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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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