Food Tank

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Like a hoe or a tractor, digital tools in agriculture may offer farmers opportunities. It has helped farming communities learn who is growing what and where, enabling them to buy seeds from neighboring growers. The Seed Savers Network developed its mobile application to address these problems.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lincoln discusses a variety of topics: Establishing a dense field cover of clover; utilizing the “bare soil” stage of this system to grow certain crops that do not necessarily perform well with clover competition; and specifics on seeding rates, density, broadcasting, and tractor-mounted implements.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. She chuckles while explaining how she got there: in an RV with two loved ones and two dogs.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds. All his siblings left, too.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

What I found was the first year following the plow, the new crop looked great, but I now realize that this was the result of a release of carbon from the soil propping up the new seeding. We do not yet have a no-till drill, so we use a conventional drill for overseeding pastures or seeding annual cover crops. Screw ups happen.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From ploughs to power harrows, flat cultivators and seed drills, Pöttinger has presented many interesting and innovative new products and features 1. AEROSEM VT with Profiline control system : The trailed pneumatic seed drill combinations AEROSEM VT 5000 DD and AEROSEM VT 6000 DD with working widths of 5.0

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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. The longer rest time allows new plants to grow from the seeds in the soil seed bank.

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Trimble Agriculture

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Some of these businesses include automotive and tractor dealers, agricultural retailers, seed growers, restaurants, and manufacturers. Community Involvement Opportunities Engagement programs connect local chapters with businesses in their area.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

AgReliant Genetics has announced senior leadership changes to position the company for long-term success, while continuing to have a seed-only focus delivering high-performing hybrids for farmers. On September 1, the University of Missouri received the first autonomous, electric tractor available to a research university in the United States.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year we had something around 700 plantings total, of over 150 crop varieties, and each was handled slightly differently at each stage (seed starting, greenhouse water and heat, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest). When you think of farming, likely tractors and planting and weeding pop into your brain.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Himalayan balsam spreads millions of tiny seeds that reach every nook and cranny of hedges and wild scrubby areas, which means that humans (often in combination with a handheld machine) are the most practical way to tackle the job. If your neighbour upgrades their tractor and you do not, you will eventually fall behind.

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Agwired

JULY 17, 2024

The two companies have previously collaborated on next-generation seed technology. sales of Ag tractors and combines in June 2024 fell below reported sales from the same month a year ago, according to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). June sales of 2-wheel-drive tractors dropped 16.3

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JANUARY 4, 2024

Moreover, synchronisation between rows and automated timing provide consistent plot starts every time, ensuring consistent seed placement within each row. SeedPro Elite is designed to enable seamless integration with a variety of tractors, guidance systems, and added accessories for more operational flexibility.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. The trailer is still hitched to the old orange tractor they used as they harvested two long rows from a nearby field. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Agwired

MAY 14, 2024

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) partnered with member companies and ag organizations to hold the three-day event which featured combine harvesters, milking equipment, sprayers and planters, irrigation equipment, tractors big and small, as well as dozens of interactive and hands-on exhibits.

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Agwired

APRIL 17, 2024

John Deere , with the help of quarterback Brock Purdy, launched an epic hunt for the company’s first-ever Chief Tractor Officer (CTO) — a witty and charismatic content creator ready to help the iconic American brand celebrate farmers, contractors, groundskeepers, and brand fans. Tractors are down 13.3 March sales jumped 3.2

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Renovo Seed will offer eight elite alfalfa varieties and three of their famous AlfaGrass mixes in their 2025 product lineup. ASTA’s Forage, Turf, and Conservation Seed Conference returns to Kansas City Oct. 27-31 for another year of programming in partnership with the Western Seed Association Annual Meeting.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From the 2025 National Farm Machinery Show, Kubota Tractor Corporation unveiled the MX4900, its newest addition to the companys popular line of utility tractors. The MX4900 was designed to be the workhorse expected of a utility tractor, but at a new price point in the MX series lineup.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

The company, which already works with more than 20 of the leading permanent crop growers in the US, will use the funds to further scale its agricultural autonomous tractor and farming solutions, and expand into new markets worldwide based on its successful track record. The global market for autonomous tractors is due to reach $11.5B

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 29, 2024

Seeds from the MultiHub are placed through the existing seed lines or through a baffle plate in front of or behind the harrows. The MultiHub offers the same number of width sections as the seed drill. Both coulter pressure and seed depth can be adjusted independently of each other and do not affect each other.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.)

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This new feature simplifies the process of managing fields and field operations data, allowing platform users to automatically synchronize information such as field boundaries, fertilizer application, seeding, spraying, and harvesting directly from their John Deere Operations Center. sales of Ag tractors decreased 19.2

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ATTRA

AUGUST 8, 2023

I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. There’s also the “Fuzz and Buzz” – a solar seed blend used at the Brookfield site that benefits pollinators and sheep. The grazing fees make that cost affordable.” “I

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

Plastics are used across the gamut of farming, from the ubiquitous silage wrap, usually black but now increasingly in an array of colours, to plastic mulches, agricultural film plastic, seed bags and onwards. What happens to farm plastics? Assessing what happens to farm plastics once their usefulness is over has proved very tricky.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. Siewicki also seeds his pasture with annual grains to allow livestock to graze on them, which he says helps to offset the carbon emissions found in the normal feed supply chain. To his surprise, it was a lot of fun. “I

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Implementing a crop rotation plan helps to prevent soil exhaustion and the build-up of pests and diseases Precision Farming Time to get tech-savvy with GPS-guided tractors and drones. High-Quality Seeds Invest in high-quality, disease-resistant seeds that are well-suited to your region.

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Agwired

JUNE 19, 2024

sales of 4-Wheel-Drive tractors increased 9.4 year-to-date sales of 4-Wheel-Drive tractors are up 3.2 agriculture tractor sales dropped 11.5 percent in May compared to 2023, according to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The data also indicates U.S. percent compared to last year.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The team has found compacted soil around the solar panels, “but we are relieved to see that the seeds that we put into the ground are growing,” he said. Tractors and More A third bucket of research questions under the Department of Energy grant will focus on farm equipment. Moser plans to work with other crops, too.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Dr. Samuel Crowell, Senior Director, International Programs and Policy for the American Seed Trade Association , was appointed to serve on one of seven agricultural trade advisory committees (ATACs). Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S.

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 18.6 Total sales of Ag tractors dropped 14.1 Registration for 2024 the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) Field Crop Seed Convention is open! USDA made the announcement in a Federal Register notice. percent in July 2024 compared to the year before and are up 5.2

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Over the years, the construction industry has used salt hay for insulation, livestock farmers use it for animal bedding, and berry growers mulch with it, since it is naturally free of weed seeds. But working in a marsh is difficult, and farmers often had to wait for the water to freeze before bringing tractors out onto the ice to harvest.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

Winner’s of the 2022 Innovation Challenge will receive gifts and cash made possible by Johnny’s Select Seeds and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And when I was in high school, around 2009, I started a community garden on our farm called “Project: Plant a Seed.” Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community.

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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.

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

Total farm tractor unit sales in the U.S. turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). Gains in the U.S. market were led by 100+hp 2WD units, up 25.4 percent, closely followed by 4WD units up 21.9

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