Agriculture Power News
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Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture and GrainFox launch strategic partnership, supporting digital transformation for farmers
Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture, an innovative technology and data solutions provider, and GrainFox announced a new partnership to bring more digital grain trade and sell options to Canadian farmers, providing technology-based solutions to support the ongoing transformation of Canada’s agriculture industry. Between crop contracts, ever-changing market conditions, and the advice ...
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Bayer launches new collaboration with Oerth Bio to further advance innovations in crop protection
Oerth’s unique PROTAC® protein degradation technology is expected to be a new, game-changing generation of more sustainable crop protection products The agreement recommits to the combination of Oerth Bio’s specialized expertise designing PROTAC® degraders for agriculture with Bayer’s global infrastructure testing, developing and commercializing leading crop ...
By Bayer AG
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IGS to deliver vertical farming solution supporting first solar-powered commercial scale farm in Perth, Australia
IGS has secured a partnership with Eden Towers, the hyper-efficient vertical farming business, to power a commercial scale vertical farm in Western Australia to grow leafy greens, specialty crops and begin the development of indigenous crops to support the local indigenous community and enter new markets. The farm will be an Australian-first, located next door to the Shire of Murray’s ...
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Bayer fuels leading market positions in Crop Science through delivery of unmatched innovation
Division continues to successfully commercialize its product pipeline in key markets, including XtendFlex soybeans and SmartStax PRO corn in North America, and Intacta 2 Xtend soybeans in South America Successful launches demonstrate progress towards mid-term growth targets in Crop Science and strength of the division’s innovation, digital transformation and sustainability capabilities ...
By Bayer AG
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UK Agricultural Tractor Registrations by power and region – January to June 2021
Last week, we reported that UK agricultural tractor registrations in the first half of 2021 were up by more than a quarter, compared with the same period last year. Looking at the power of machines registered during the year to date, we can see that there was strong growth across most of the power range. Growth was a little slower in the 150-250hp range than for higher and lower-powered machines. ...
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The Agricultural Engineers Association announce scholarship winner!
The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA), a trade association representing manufacturers and importers of agricultural machinery and outdoor power equipment, are proud to announce the winning recipient of the final year BEng/MEng Agricultural Engineering scholarship at Harper Adams University as Sean Whiteway. Sean has been selected by a panel of industry representatives and experts, and wins ...
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LE-TEC announce the winners of their Technicians For 2021 competition
Land-based Education and Training Committee (LE-TEC Ltd) are proud to announce the top 3 winners of their Technicians For 2021 competition. Designed to celebrate and find the UK’s best Technicians in the Land-based Engineering sector, entrants were asked to submit a short video explaining three aspects of themselves: who they were, what inspired them to become a Land-based Technician and ...
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The Countdown is on until the AEA Virtual Conference 2021
The AEA Conference will take place virtually on Tuesday 13th April 2021 from 9:30 – 13:00. We have exciting line- up of speakers which includes: Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London Anand is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London. Members may recall Professor Menon joined us two years ...
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New AEA Scholarship Launches for Agricultural Engineering Students
“The scholarship is a fantastic opportunity for an agricultural engineering student of any background to help promote and support the industry as it looks to find new talent and attract others who may wish to look to agricultural engineering as a profession” A new scholarship for final year BEng/MEng Agricultural Engineering students at Harper Adams University has launched today. ...
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Take Action in Wake of Timely Report Illustrating Challenges to BIPOC Farmers
Our friends at Green Lands Blue Waters shared “Leveling the Fields: Creating Farm Opportunities for Black People, Indigenous People, and Other People of Color,” a new report being issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists and HEAL Food Alliance. I encourage you to read the report then take action in observation of Juneteenth, tomorrow’s holiday commemorating June 19, 1865, ...
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LE-TEC Announce New Website Launch
The Landbased Training and Education Committee (LE-TEC Ltd), the industry collaborative that aims to promote training and education for people working within agricultural, horticultural and forestry machinery dealerships, manufacturers, and associated businesses, is proud to announce the launch of its newly redesigned website at www.landbasedengineering.com. Featuring a modern design and ...
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Stuart McClimont joins the AEA as Technical and Standards Engineer
The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) are pleased to announce the appointment of Stuart McClimont who has joined the organisation as a Technical and Standards Engineer. Stuart’s vast wealth of knowledge and experience in both the agricultural and outdoor power engineering sectors will enable him to get involved in the AEA’s critical work on technical standards and legislation ...
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Agricultural production: drought and other abiotic stresses
The 65% of productive losses in main crops such as corn, wheat or barley are caused by abiotic stresses related to climatic variations (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Buchanan, Gruissem, Jones, American Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000). Source: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Buchanan, Gruissem, Jones, American Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000. Plant ...
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Dairy farmers of America and Vanguard renewables announce strategic alliance
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national farmer-owned dairy cooperative, and Vanguard Renewables, a Massachusetts-based renewable energy developer, announce a strategic partnership to help bring anaerobic digestion technology to more farms across the country. While waste management and environmental sustainability are top priorities for dairy farmers today, renewable energy methods, like ...
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Foundation Scholarships Available
Since the establishment of WEDA, the Board of Directors has made a commitment to focus on education and training of our dealership employees as one of our key objectives. One of our long-term goals is to “raise the bar” in terms of skills and abilities of our dealership employees, while at the same time assisting you in a variety of ways in the investment that you have made in your ...
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Sustainable mechanization has much to offer in sub-Saharan Africa
Feeding the burgeoning world population will require significant improvements in agricultural productivity, above all in Africa, and mechanization and appropriate mechanization strategies have a large role to play, according to a new report from FAO. The opportunity must be guided in a way that meets smallholder farmers' needs and that does not require a Green-Revolution type of approach with ...
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New partnership to promote sustainable mechanization of agriculture
FAO and the European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association CEMA , an international non-profit organisation, today forged a new partnership that aims to promote wider use of sustainable agricultural mechanization in developing countries. The two organizations will work together to manage and disseminate knowledge on sustainable approaches to agricultural mechanization. They will also ...
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Proposed rule for farms aims to improve Lake Erie
Ohio's lawmakers are taking their first step toward slowing the spread of algae in Lake Erie since a toxin contaminated the drinking water for more than 400,000 people. Legislation approved in the state House would ban farmers in much of northwestern Ohio from spreading manure on top of frozen or saturated fields. Another provision would set new rules on dumping dredged sediment in the lake. ...
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Agriculture Industry Seeks to Create Right to Farm
In the nation's agricultural heartland, farming is more than a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds the world. It could be on track to become a right, written into law alongside the freedom of speech and religion. Some powerful agriculture interests want to declare farming a right at the state level as part of a wider campaign to fortify the ag industry against crusades by animal-welfare ...
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Agricultural engineering as the motor for success
"As the representative for Bavarian companies, we had the opportunity to elucidate the economic significance of the Allgäu during the meeting,” says Peter-Josef Paffen, describing the meeting with the representatives of the US government. “AGCO/Fendt is a very positive example of a win-win relationship between a German subsidiary and an American parent company. Fendt is ...
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