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Planting hay is quite simple, all you need is a tractor and a seed planter. This is a machine that attaches to the Power take off (PTO) on the tractor and will evenly dispurse the seeds. Hay does not need the amount of tractor work other crops do, most hay feilds are natural grasses that are already growing (however, farmers do add in a variety of grasses), hay fields do not need to be sprayed or cutivated pre or post planting.

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Modern methods of farming have many advantages:

1. The soil is made fertile by adding soil nutrition after analysis of the soil and the suitability for the seeds/corp for maximum yield .

2. Mechanization and use of modern machinery for ploughing, leveling,winnowing,harvesting,spraying ,irrigating have reduced manual labor.

3.Use of scientific data and technology has helped better agricultural inputs.

4.Modern storage and transportation has helped reduce wastage.

5.Crop protection is one important feature of modern method of farming.

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India is a developing country. India doesn't have the ability to restore efficiency in agriculture. The US is a developed country and a large percentage of farming today is done by big companies, rather than family farmers.

In USA an average farm is about 250 hectares and in India an average farm is about 2.3 hectares.

Indians use poor technology , whereas USA uses the most advanced technology in the world.

Indian farmers commit suicide due to hunger and poor life, whereas US farmers do not.

Indian rupee rate is very less as compared to USA.

Indians farmers struggle a lot, due to lack of facility of irrigation and knowledge, whereas US farmers do not.

India mostly depends on rain water for irrigation, some farms in the US have advanced systems for irrigation.

India uses US fertilisers, US brand seed, US technology. USA does not need Indians support for their agriculture.

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USA has effectively ruined their land quality because of years of mono-culture of crops like wheat and corn.

USA farms are run on the basis of capitalist agendas, therefore whatever can be produced the cheapest is produced. Even things like plastic and sugar is made from corn because it's cheap.

Individual farming towns in the US have been reduced to ghost towns, because of the mono-culture environment.

US is force feeding the its cattle and pigs the excess corn it produces, in spite of the fact that cattle has not evolved to eat corn. This results in substandard meat, which is again shelved in the market or exported.

Because of non-diverse over-production of a single crop, US has to force it's way into other countries economies, so that they buy the excess crop.

USA is where the "hybrid" varieties of crop took birth, where a farmer has to keep on buying new seeds every planting season from corporations like Monsanto rather than storing the nutritionally beneficial heirloom seeds, which every other farmer does.

Because of the intensive use of chemical pesticides, the crops and their derived foods(bread etc.) destroy the gut bacteria, which has resulted in exponential increase in brain disorders, and renaming of 'Adult-type diabetes' to 'Type- II' because children in the US are suddenly developing diabetes due to abnormal obesity.

India still has time to correct its course and not follow the US example. US probably cannot.

(Reference: Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan; What's with Wheat? - A documentary)

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The Green Revolution was the notable increase in cereal-grains production in Mexico, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and other developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s. This trend resulted from the introduction of hybrid strains of wheat, rice, and corn (maize) and the adoption of modern agricultural technologies, including irrigation and heavy doses of chemical fertilizer. The Green Revolution was launched by research establishments in Mexico and the Philippines that were funded by the governments of those nations, international donor organizations, and the U.S. government. Similar work is still being carried out by a network of institutes around the world.

The Green Revolution was based on years of painstaking scientific research, but when it was deployed in the field, it yielded dramatic results, nearly doubling wheat production in a few.

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Rice is more paler and thinner, the seeds looking more oval (or oblong) in shape than corn. Corn kernels tend to be more yellow, and more squatter, with a parallelogram-look to them, if the kernel is flipped upside down, with the bottom part more curved and smoother. The plants themselves are different: corn is much taller, with wider leaves, and the cobs are located right on the side of the stems. Rice, on the other hand, has much narrower leaves, and the seeds are grown from the top of the plant, and have a pattern to them called a Raceme, where the seed head is kind of lacy, not cramped altogether like corn is.

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Wheat can vary from 10,000 to 20,000 kernels per pound, but if one assumes the middle rate at 15,000 per pound, then there would be about 900,000 kernels in a bushel.

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24,281.13853 m². See the complete algebraic steps below:

6 acres*6272640 in²

1 acres*6.4516 cm²

1 in²*1 m²

10000 cm²=24,281.13853 m²

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A "silo" is normally used for the storage of fodder such as corn silage or haylage. However, if you meant the largest grain bin, the largest one I know of is in Arthur, Iowa, USA. It has a diameter of 135 feet, a peak height of 131 feet, and holds over 1.2 million bushels of grain corn. See the related link below.

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5.739210285 acres. See the complete algebraic steps below:

250,000 ft²*1 acres

43560 ft²=5.739210285 acres

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452.39 square feet.

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USA

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It varies due to ear size, length, weight, and type of corn, but a decent average is about 1.6 bushels ear corn to make one bushel of shelled.

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TERAI-GRANARY OF NEPAL

Terai is called the granary of Nepal as more than half percent of people of Nepal depend on the vegetation of Terai region. Terai is plain, where more cultivation is possible. Cultivation is impossible in mountain region due to difficult topography and temperate region and even in hilly region with lots of vegetation it's not possible due to slope area. Terai is only the possible region where much cultivation is possible. Different kinds of vegetation, valuable medicinal herbs, important trees, etc. are found in Terai region. So, Terai region is called the granary of Nepal.

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Easiest and quickest way: purchase a moisture-testing meter and follow the instructions.

Less expensive way, but takes longer: weigh a sample as accurately as possible, then heat at a temperature high enough to drive out the moisture, but not so high as to start to oxidize or burn the corn. Weigh the sample again, then put the numbers into the formula below:

Grain moisture content (in % pts.) = ((Beginning weight of sample minus ending weight) divided by beginning weight) times 100

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There is. Alfalfa hay is exactly that, hay. Your horse should never eat a first or second cutting. This is usually what dairy cows eat, the protein content is too high for a horse. Alfalfa meal is chopped alfalfa hay mixed with other things incuding molasses. Horses love alfalfa meal and it is a great thing to feed if you have a 'hard keeper'. (a horse that is hard to keep weight on) But remember, just like any sweet feed or grain it has a higher protein percentage and can make your horse run a little 'hot'.

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it is a stage when the development of tissues is complete and the fruits and vegetables are ready to harvest after ripen

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It is a kharif crop;

potatoes prefer short days and long cool nights for better tuberization, hence it is a winter crop, Rabi crop is also shown during winter season. Therefore, potato is a rabi crop. Although in places like Willingdon (Tamil Nadu, India) it is grown all the year round.

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Oliver Evans was the first person to invent the grain elevator in England. Joseph Dart Jr., an American merchant adapted Evans' designs for a more commercial framework for use as shipment from lakers to boat canals. The actual design and and construction of the world's first steam-powered "grain storage and transfer warehouse" was created and executed by engineer Robert Dunbar.

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Successes in US farm production led to additional money to spend, which led to acting on big dreams without much planning. This led to farmers incurring more and bigger debts because they figured the fortune would continue. By 1881, a mini financial depression occurred nationwide. Farmers who over-extended their spending and credit owed couldn't pay off their debts. In many cases, people went bankrupt. This ended up in middle-aged grandsons and great-grandsons losing the family farm their ancestors owned starting in 1800-1830. People lost everything.

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No. Corn is Corn and Wheat is Wheat. Two different plants.

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Their both the same, really, just two different names for sand with clay in it, however one might have more clay in one (sandy clay) than the other (clayey sand), but only by miniscule amounts.