Agwired
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
sales of Ag tractors and combines fell during January 2025 compared to the year before. sales of Ag tractors dropped 15.8 The answer…soy-based textiles which are on the rise. Soy announces Clara Padgham from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the national winner of the NEXTILE: The Soy in Textile Design Challenge.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The soybeans and corn are processed into animal feed and ethanol, mostly outside the region; the cotton is exported to textile mills in Asia. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. Grocery stores are scarce.
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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. 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.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. It wasn’t much, but they had only to cross the river to hunt wild game, gather native fruits, and harvest natural dyes for pottery and textiles they sold in local markets.
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