To smell plowed earth in spring
Western FarmPress
MARCH 21, 2024
The turning of soil can invoke an almost tangible sense memory.
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Western FarmPress
MARCH 21, 2024
The turning of soil can invoke an almost tangible sense memory.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 22, 2024
In this report from Agritechnica, Kuhn product line manager David Hild explains how European farmers who fall plow typically utilize two separate machines — a power harrow followed by a. Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn.
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Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
I am not suggesting every peanut, corn, cotton or soybean field needs to be plowed in 2024, but deep tillage once every 3-4 years can be a useful tool for managing troublesome weeds.
AgWeb Farm Journal
DECEMBER 29, 2023
From a bottle hunter and a pair of plows crafted by John Deere himself to record yields and the return of monster buck antlers, enjoy some of the fan favorites on AgWeb from the past year.
AgWeb Farm Journal
DECEMBER 7, 2023
We would have grown fewer crops, spent more time and money on controlling weeds, and harmed our soil with plowing. The absence of glyphosate would have made a bad year even worse.
UnderstandingAg
JULY 16, 2023
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. At first, I thought this was what I needed to do.
ATTRA
DECEMBER 26, 2023
He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover. Then once again, a spring plow down and re-establishment of the white clover after transplanting.
Agwired
MARCH 22, 2024
Julia Letlow (R-LA) with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. The conference is scheduled for April 11-12 in Overland Park, Kansas. Register for AgCon2024. The American Farm Bureau Federation and Louisiana Farm Bureau presented Rep.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 20, 2024
million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over. A lot of the new land that’s getting plowed up is soil that isn’t necessarily going to sustain farming for the long term. It’s a difficult job to keep grasslands across the US in the best shape possible. In 2021, roughly 1.6
Caff
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers.
ATTRA
JULY 11, 2023
When he dug deeper (literally) he saw that the soils farmers were working with had an impenetrable plow pan layer about 6 inches below the surface, so the cotton plant roots could not access the nutrients they needed, even though the nutrients were present. The soil had lost its structure because of the way it was being managed.
Hartwood Farm
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Note Beulah’s careful supervision of the plow. For some reason, the plow and the field conditioner (but not any of our ten other tractor implements) require constant monitoring? In 2021, we took out a loan to build a shiny new heated greenhouse. So greens spinners and more shade tents and things on wheels.
Agwired
DECEMBER 8, 2023
with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. The Golden Plow is the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress. This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)
The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.
Agwired
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
with the highest honor the organization gives to sitting members of Congress, the Golden Plow award. The American Farm Bureau Federation and West Virginia Farm Bureau presented Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)
Modern Farmer
JULY 31, 2023
My father initially started off plowing with a horse, and here we are talking about using satellite data to measure grass at home. Agriculture technology has grown leaps and bounds over the last generation, says Holden. “We We have a small farm at home as well. It’s amazing what happens in a short space of time.”
Agritecture Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Despite being "perfectly good to eat," up to 40 percent of Melvin's 36 hectares of cauliflower gets plowed back into the ground each year, according to the Nova Scotia farmer's estimates. "We No farmer grows food to then plow it under," Nikkel said.
Trimble Agriculture
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Farmers are using GPS-guided tractors to plow fields and drones to precisely apply pesticides. Technology Is Changing Farming While Farm Lending Lags Behind New farm technology like AI has already irreversibly changed agriculture.
National Young Farmers Coalition
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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Cropaia
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Excessive or deep plowing disrupts the soil structure, releases stored carbon, and can lead to erosion. Key Practices of Regenerative Agriculture Soil Management Techniques No-Till or reduced tillage : One of the fundamental principles of regenerative agriculture is minimizing or eliminating tillage.
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.
ATTRA
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
year after year, usually with a non-cover fallow, intensive moldboard plowing, and the additions of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds.
ATTRA
APRIL 9, 2024
As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. Last May, on the 10th according to my notebook, I stared at five feet of my cover crop’s spring growth.
DTN
JULY 24, 2023
Trackable events include plowing, minimum-till cultivation, crop rotation, crop type, cover crop presence, irrigation events, harvest date, and crop residue presence. Leverage remote sensing to assess environmental impacts About one-third of the data needed to assess a field’s environmental impact can be provided by remote sensing.
The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 7, 2021
From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. I've concluded that both camps have merit and it depends on immediate objectives and circumstances as to which theme to employ. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. The following year it was solid weeds.
Agritecture Blog
MAY 19, 2023
Seeds can be sown in the broken-down residue of the previous crop, allowing soil microbes to naturally break down roots and feed the new plants without being minced up by the plow, while weeds are suppressed by the existing ground cover.
Caff
MAY 24, 2022
It’s just as important as plowing, making rows and laying irrigation lines.” youth and adult volunteers Location: Fresno, California Acres in cultivation: Less than one acre Marketing: farmer’s markets, farm stand and CSA Crops: mixed vegetables “I think the food safety piece is just as important as all the other stuff that we do.
Cropaia
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. Over time, they improve soil structure, reduce erosion, and increase soil moisture retention. One of the defining features of no-till farming is the minimal disturbance of the soil.
Agritecture Blog
MARCH 23, 2023
Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2 hectares of land upon which Mattia has created 38 pens, each 120m2 in size. So, he has had to learn all of this “on the fly.”
Civil Eats
MAY 1, 2024
Tesdell explained that when his European ancestors settled in the Midwest, they plowed the prairie and switched from deeply rooted perennial plants to shallow-rooted annual crops like wheat, oats, and corn instead. Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa.
Farmbrite
JUNE 1, 2023
These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning.
Daily Yonder
MARCH 4, 2024
They have to work outside jobs to get health insurance; when they come home, they must feed the animals, repair the fences, help a cow give birth and plow the fields. “It’s The increasing cost of health care has limited the ability of some U.S. farmers and ranchers across the U.S.
Hartwood Farm
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Years of cover cropping and chisel plowing have eliminated compaction and it even grew healthy beans and potatoes during the 21.5” Year Two (2013): little did we know that this field would be one of our problem children… the next year we put it all into strawberries and then it rained so hard the water table submerged them all!
The Counter
APRIL 27, 2022
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.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JUNE 1, 2023
Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
These sections of interstate were plowed through communities of color in the 1950s and 60s very deliberately. These old logging roads have been obliterated by the forest service and various conservation groups over the years, so that’s a good example. I also talk about the removal of urban freeways as well.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 30, 2024
We brought in a plow and dug a big trench, and then we piled all of his dead cattle up and rolled it into the trench with the snowplow….The It took weeks to get to everyone, and then snow was so deep that it took excavators to clear paths to bury animals that didn’t make it through the storm.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 4, 2023
In China, where farms use enough plastic film to cover the surface area of Idaho every year, the difficulty of end-of-season removal led growers, at one point, to plow the plastic directly into the field. The widespread practice, which took place through the late aughts, “had a deleterious effect on soil quality,” says Richard H.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JULY 13, 2023
Farmland itself was also once a major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide as farmers cleared carbon-rich forests and plowed up prairie soils, releasing carbon from trees and the ground. Both warm the atmosphere far more, per molecule, than carbon dioxide. Now, climate-smart agriculture aims to recapture some of that carbon. “A 28, 2019.
CalCAN
APRIL 6, 2023
The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 7, 2022
And they raise the risk of additional acres being plowed up to compensate for the lower yields. Researchers, using satellite data, found that cash crop yields in the corn belt dropped significantly—on average 5.5 percent for corn and 3.5 percent for soybeans—on fields that were cover-cropped, compared to fields that were not.
National Young Farmers Coalition
APRIL 23, 2024
As a result, the comparatively few legislators representing agricultural areas need the votes of colleagues who wouldn’t know a harrow from a plow. In contrast to a century ago, when a quarter of Americans lived on the farm, most members of Congress today hail from urban and suburban areas, where most of us now live.
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