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Media Advisory for Wednesday: U.S. EPA Honors Dixon Ridge Farms With Award; News Media Tour Available
The U.S. Environmental Protection will be recognizing Dixon Ridge Farms in a Winters, Calif. environmental award ceremony. The Pacific Southwest Region’s 2012 Sustainable Agricultural Champion Award will be presented to the organic walnut farm’s founder, Russ Lester. WHO: Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator from San Francisco, Calif. Craig Hooks. U.S. ...
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Agri-Linc Agri-Day 2015 – Come And Meet Enduramaxx
With much better weather and longer days now upon us, it’s an ideal time to stage Agri-Linc Agri-Day which takes place on the 24th March at Randalls Farm, Scottlethorpe Road, Edenham, Bourne, Lincs. PE10 0LN. From 7am to 4pm, a wide range of customers will have the chance to view a full line-up of new and used machinery, attachments, parts and equipment and liquid tanks from Enduramaxx. ...
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Farm Management and Technology Field Day on Aug. 9
Farmers are always looking for ways to be more efficient and self-sustainable, and energy technology is one way to accomplish both. The Mahoning County office of Ohio State University Extension is hosting a field day Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Ward Campbell Farm, 11440 Palmyra Road in North Jackson. The focus of the event is how energy technology, such as solar and wind technology, can ...
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New guide seeks to improve the safety of tractor-trailer braking
The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) have published an updated edition of the ‘Look Behind You’ guide to tractor-trailer braking today. The guide is aimed at farmers, tractor drivers, mechanics and technicians – indeed anyone using, purchasing or maintaining tractors and trailers. It seeks to raise user awareness of what is needed from tractor-trailer braking systems, in ...
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Natural Competitive Advantage of Bioregions
PORTLAND, Oregon, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - In the decades ahead, in the face of global warming, increasing energy prices, and a growing global disparity between rich and poor, bioregions have a natural competitive advantage. Everything is changing in the face of global warming. The industrial economy is an artifact of cheap oil. There will be a transition from an industrial to an ecological ...
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Farmers Union Represented at Politico Agriculture Event
National Farmers Union (NFU) Secretary and Minnesota Farmers Union President Doug Peterson presented on a panel today (on November 14, 2013) sponsored by Politico Pro Agriculture. The event was designed to be a series of conversations among policy and industry leaders exploring the future of our nation's agriculture community, the farm bill and the regulatory road ahead. “The agriculture ...
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Small Farm Advice: Stand & Deliver
A roadside stand is a good entry into direct-marketing your crops. In addition to earning extra income without a middleman taking a cut, it’s a good way to promote your farm and test what sells with consumers in your area. Besides the bricks and mortar (or more likely wood and nails) of your stand, consider the “intangibles” necessary to pull off a successful farm stand that ...
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Efficiency as competitive edge
In a scenario for the year 2050 described by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a world population of around nine billion (i.e. one-third more than today) will need to be supplied with food, raw materials and energy. To keep pace, food production must increase by about 70 percent – a massive challenge that is aggravated by the impacts of climate change, water ...
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Combining Tradition and Innovation - A Mind for Change
Petra Skarja, author and entrepreneur, has visited the place where tradition is intertwined with the most advanced technology. Antique buildings and cutting-edge measuring instruments. Simplicity, homeliness, and at the same time high-level entrepreneurship. An industrial workshop with heavy machinery on the top of a mountain. Boštjan Petek is a farmer and workshop manager, who combines ...
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