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A new way for beginning farmers to access land
Farm Journal
According to the American Farmland Trust, the biggest barriers to entry for beginning farmers is access to new land and capital. In fact, it’s something of a Catch-22 – you need land to farm on to make money, but you don’t have money because you don’t have land to farm.
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Can farming practices in Oklahoma solve climate change?
Scientific American
When Greg Scott teaches people about soil health, the front row better beware.
The soil scientist from Oklahoma hauls around a rain simulator that holds bins of soil you’d see on different types of farmland.
When he flicked his contraption on in Norman, Oklahoma, recently at a journalist’s conference, shoes and notepads got wet. But what didn’t get very wet was the bin of dirt that mimicked tilled land, a common method of digging and stirring up the soil before planting.
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Ohio State University ag safety and health experts urge growers to use caution when handling grain
Drovers CattleNetwork
With grain harvest well underway thanks to favorable weather conditions, growers are reminded that taking extra precautions when handling grain can lessen the potential for injury. When working around grain storage facilities, incidents such as slips, trips, falls, severe trauma injuries, entanglement or engulfment can happen in a fraction of a second, said Kent McGuire, agriculture safety and health coordinator for Ohio State University Extension.
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