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Drone Potential in Agriculture
March 31, 2016 Drones are heavily regulated, but Michigan native Jason Hugo, owner/operator of goFarm LLC, has received an exemption from the FAA, allowing him to fly commercially...
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Farmers Reap Benefits of Driverless Tractor Tech
March 29, 2016 Farming is big business across America, with more than two million farms covering more than 900 million acres. Many tractors are equipped with technology that companies like Google are planning to put on the road...
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Vertical Farming Closer to Home
March 25, 2016 Contributor Kosta Grammatis discovers a secret garden inside Chicago's O'Hare Airport and explores other ways vertical farming impacts restaurants and even schools...
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Forward Farming: The Next Generation of American Agriculture
March 22, 2016 With the future of agriculture resting upon the shoulders of the next generation, Forward Farming provides a look into the life of a 22-year-old Oregon farmer, Wade Bernards...
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How Vertical Farms Bring Fresh Food To Booming Cities
March 18, 2016 In Singapore, the challenge of feeding a growing population is pushing the concept of urban farming to new heights. A super-efficient vertical farming system is producing greens for 5 million residents...
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Improving Revenues & Efficiency of Montana’s Farm & Ranch Lands
March 15, 2016 Thanks in part to a grant from the Montana Research and Economic Development Initiative, Montana State Researchers are looking at ways to improve efficiency and revenues on Montana's farm and ranch lands by utilizing pulse and cover crops as well as precision agriculture techniques...
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The Future of Farming? Smart Technologies
March 11, 2016 Farming has been innovated at several different points and places in human past. Succeeding step-changes in human farming techniques were prompted by the British Agricultural Revolution in the eighteenth century, and the Green Revolution of the second half of the twentieth...
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Harvesting Along The Edge
March 9, 2016 Each year, Slivka Grain & Ag with the help of L. Petersen Farms custom harvesting crew are faced with the task of harvesting wheat and barley, some of which is against 1,000 foot cliffs, to help deliver food to your table....
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Mark Jackson: A Personal Story About Farming and the Future of Agriculture
March 4, 2016 In 1890, Mark Jackson’s great-great-great-grandfather bought a plot of land in southern Iowa. Five generations later, Mark is still farming that same land but using some very different techniques...
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Climate Change and Agriculture: America’s Heartland
March 3, 2016 Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will affect food production in the future. Scientists say farmers and ranchers will have to deal with increasing temperatures that can alter crop cycles, droughts, threats of wildfire, and even the production of hydroelectric power for farming needs...
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2012 Agriculture Appreciation
February 1, 2012 Starting on Monday March 5th we will be featuring a different Agriculture family every day Monday through Friday this month on our website www...
