Archive for April, 2011
Sustainable farming and costs – Panel discussion
April 9th, 2011 | 
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Martina Fleckenstein (Director EU Policy and Agriculture, WWF, Germany) gives an answer to the question, if it is possible to earn money with sustainable farming.
More information: http://www.agro.basf.com/agr/AP-Internet/en_GB/content/news_room/media-events/basf-at-fruit-logistica-2011
Duration : 0:1:46
Posted in sustainable agriculture | 
Tags: basf, basf agro, basf crop protectipn, basfagro, cost, farm, farmer, farming, Money, sustainabiliy, sustainable farmin, wwf | 
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Mowing the really big lawn at Howmars Farm
Cutting the grass at Howmars Farm for the first time for the season, farmer Ben tries to keep up with the hay baler. Howmars Farm supplies Stonyfield farm with organic milk to make its yogurts.
See http://stonyfield.typepad.com/bovine for the daily diary of the farmer.
Duration : 0:2:16
Posted in agriculture supplies |
Tags: dairy, farm, farming, hay, organic, Stonyfield, summer, Vermont, yogurt |
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Farm Equipment Mechanics
Agriculture today is big business. That means large farms that require large specialized machinery. Tractors with 400 horse power, hay bailers, planters, and augers, milking machines, and spraying and irrigation equipment. Name a machine and odds are it gets heavy use… Entry level job search and internships.
Duration : 0:1:6
Wash With Care 1: Reduce exposure to pesticides
Simon Fraser University’s department of communication has produced several public-service videos to educate B.C.’s Punjabi farm workers about how to safely launder clothing worn during pesticide application. The Bollywood-styled videos feature Simon Fraser University’s N.S.M. Bhangra dance team.
For more information visit: http://www.washwithcare.ca
Duration : 0:2:36
Posted in pesticide |
Tags: Bhangra, care, dance, Fraser, pesticides, SFU, Simon, university, Wash, with |
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Sustainable agriculture, using a no till drill in pastures
Tim explaining how the no till drill works and what we are planting
April 6, 2010
Elko, MN
Duration : 0:0:53
Posted in agriculture tractor |
Tags: agriculture, organic, sustainable agriculture, tractor |
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Art, Architecture, and Horticulture at the Barnes Foundation
Art, architecture and horticulture at the Barnes Foundation are perfect together – reason to Save the Barnes and Stop the Move.
Duration : 0:3:26
Pickrell, NE Tractor Pull: 12500lb Hot Farm
12500 or 13500lb (the heavy class) Hot Farm Tractors at Pickrell, NE on 8/8/09.
Duration : 0:4:5
Posted in agriculture tractors |
Tags: a-pump, farm, hot, ih, international, modified, Nebraska, pull, stock, tractor |
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Pig Business The Trailer
Pig Business trailer
Posted in agriculture business |
Tags: abuse, agribusiness, agriculture, animal, antibiotics, boar, business, cafo, chorizo, corporate, environment, Factory, farming, free, ham, Hog, humane, industrial, labelling, lagoon, pig, piggy, piglet, pigs, pollution, pork, range, reared, sausage, slurry, smithfield, sow, super-bug, swine, takeover, Tracy, Trade, TRAILER, welfare, Worcester |
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EU’s CAP reform poised to include climate measures – workshop interviews
‘Towards climate-smart agriculture? Post-Cancun and farm policy’ is the title of this 31 March 2011 EurActiv Stakeholder Workshop in Brussels.
Despite being responsible for 20-30 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture is not incorporated into the UN climate agreements.
Making agriculture an integral part of a smart solution to tackle climate change is however necessary: the sector’s emissions must be reduced and more carbon be sequestered into the soil and biomass.
Duration : 0:2:59
Posted in agriculture |
Tags: agriculture, brussels, CAP, climate, climate change, Common Agricultural Policy, DG AGRI, DG ENV, EU, EurActiv, European Commission, food, green, interview, news, Policy, Right to Food, stakeholder, UN, United Nations, Workshop |
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Pesticides are not the “Natural Way”
HELP! Our neighbor values a green lawn more than a life! They constantly have their yard, trees and shrubs sprayed with pesticides. Pesticides that are on the EPA’s list of endocrine disruptors. We have a pesticide free yard and organic garden. Every month, we have to cover my garden and fruit trees to keep the lawn care company from over-spraying onto our garden and fruit trees. This last time, I caught them spraying full blast and it coming through the fence that clearly divides our property lines. I stopped them just short of spraying my honeysuckle vines that cascade over the fence. They know I am pesticide sensitive and am trying to keep the spray off my yard. The lawn care company boasts they have the right to do this!!! And that they can spray anything that is on the neighbor’s side of the fence and that our concern for over-spray is not substantiated. They are saying I do not have the right to a pesticide-free yard!!! We must go cry out to our city, county, state and federal governments to get over-spraying to be illegal. Every homeowner in America should have the right to NOT HAVE HARMFUL CHEMICALS SPRAYED ON THEIR LAWNS VIA THEIR NEIGHBOR! Help me start this fight! After all, the tomato you pick from your organic garden may have the pesticides from your neighbor on it. Do you feel safe feeding it to your children? Contact the Governor of Colorado, Bill Ritter and tell him Bev Veals wants Residential Pesticide Use Guidelines! I am a 9-year, two-time, advanced stage breast cancer survivor. PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!! E-mail: beepesticidefree@mac.com
Duration : 0:3:51