TOOLS

IFARM (Imaging For Agricultural Research and Management)

Using low cost balloons, kites, UAVs etc. to create overhead, NDVI images, and spectroscopy for practical agricultural applications. IFARM (Imaging For Agricultural Research and Management)

Skidsteer quick attach standards SAE J2513

The SAE J2513 known also as the bobcat skidsteer quick attach has become a common standard for other tractor and implement manufacturers. This post provides standards and approaches to compliment commercial adapters already available.

small axial flow combine harvester

This tool is for documenting small scale axial flow threshing systems, harvest heads, and grain/bean separating approaches that could be used to retrofit existing combines and facilitate local manufacture of parts or even whole combines suitable for research and harvesting small plots of grains and oilseeds.

Farm Hack Event Tool

Farm Hack events are a solutions driven social approach to identify gaps, skills, opportunities to improve your local enterprises and have fun building the creative commons. This tool provides an outline of the "bill of materials" and operating recommendations for hosting FarmHack events; from promotion, to recruiting partners and recommended skills, to appropriate location and creation of culture, to food, organization, critiques and documentation.

Encyclopedia of Practical Farm Knowledge

FARM KNOWLEDGE WIKI Based on a Complete Manual of Successful Farming Written by Recognized Authorities in All Parts of the Country; Based on Sound Principles and the Actual Experience of Real Farmers—“The Farmers Own Cyclopedia” Starting text for the wiki was published in 1922. The text was digitized and posted here https://archive.org/details/Farm1 for download for all who would like to contribute

Care for Farm Implements

Care of Farm Equipment IN ORDER to decrease the cost of his implements, the farmer must either make them last a longer time or operate them over a greater number of acres. Since the size of the farm is a fixed thing, and since it may be impossible or inadvisable to cooperate with the neighbors in the use of important tools, then the one great means of decreasing cost is to extend the life of the tools.