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Florida Sea Grant highlights aquaculture in new Florida Trend report
Aquaculture, the controlled production of seafood, ornamental fish and other aquatic life, is big business in Florida. In 2012, the state’s producers earned $70 million in cash receipts, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey. Worldwide, aquaculture is responsible for about half of all seafood consumed, so this emerging sector of Florida agricultural production holds great ...
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Topcon announces Ochs as North American agriculture customer support manager
Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) announces Jared Ochs has joined the company as customer support manager for North America. He will be located in Olathe, Kansas and will report to Robert Lindgren, TPA director of global customer support. Ochs has a background in the precision agriculture industry and most recently worked as the integrated solutions manager at Concordia Tractor, Inc., a John ...
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$15 million in USAID funding looks to spark ‘new era’ in agricultural data collection
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have signed a $15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data -information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The second of the SDG goals is to end hunger, achieve food ...
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Assessing crop damages after extreme weather
Original story at MIT News Producing torrential rain and wind gusts exceeding 180 miles per hour as it made landfall in the Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan left more than 6,000 dead and 4 million homeless. The November 2013 storm also obliterated thousands of hectares of crops, mostly rice, the staple food for about 90 percent of the population. Host to six to nine tropical cyclones per year since ...
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Sentera Partners with RDO Equipment Co. to Offer UAV Solutions
Sentera-RDO Equipment partnership brings complete UAV solution packages to RDO Customers Sentera is excited to announce its partnership with RDO Equipment Co., a total solutions provider with 78 stores servicing the agriculture, construction, environmental, surveying, and irrigation industries. The RDO Equipment partnership augments RDO’s already robust product offering, giving their ...
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