Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. This morning, while he waits for help, he reaches a pitchfork up into a back compartment of the machine to pull out the straw that got stuck.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. Rodale has even designed an add-on device for tractors, making the blueprint publicly available.) Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

JANUARY 31, 2024

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. Or, “consumer trends,” which drive the whole tractor in big box grocery, may change. How do you make the best beef business in America?”

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