Agriculture Regulations News
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Terra Drone Fully Expands into Agriculture Sector; Business Transfer from Avirtech
Terra Drone Corporation, a leading drone and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) technology provider, is expanding into the precision agriculture sector by acquiring the business of Avirtech, a leading startup providing agricultural drone spraying and mapping service in Southeast Asia. Terra Drone establishes a new company Terra Drone Agri in Malaysia. Terra Drone expands its business under the new business ...
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AEA elects Shaun Groom as President
Following two years as Chairman of the AEA’s Farm Equipment Council, Shaun Groom, General Manager of Merlo UK Ltd, has been elected President of the AEA. Since its foundation in 1875 the AEA has represented its member’s interests at a national and international level. The association and its members have weathered many a challenge including world wars, economic recessions, foot and ...
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New guide seeks to improve the safety of tractor-trailer braking
The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) have published an updated edition of the ‘Look Behind You’ guide to tractor-trailer braking today. The guide is aimed at farmers, tractor drivers, mechanics and technicians – indeed anyone using, purchasing or maintaining tractors and trailers. It seeks to raise user awareness of what is needed from tractor-trailer braking systems, in ...
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Chairman Roberts Hears Agricultural Perspectives on Climate Legislation
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on S. 3894, The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020. “Maintaining the health of our planet for future generations is, of course, of paramount importance. So is feeding the billions of people that populate the Earth today and in the years ahead,” said ...
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BIO’s Dr. Clint Nesbitt Named to APLU-AAVMC Task Force on Gene Editing in Animal Agriculture
Dr. Clint Nesbitt, Senior Director of Science and Regulatory Affairs for Food & Agriculture at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), was named today to a Task Force on Gene Editing in Animal Agriculture. The Task Force is being led by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). “We applaud ...
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Groups Sue Farm Service Agency for Concealing Records on Funding of Industrial Animal Ag
Today, a group of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to stop its systematic delay and over-redaction of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses. Advocacy groups have long been seeking loan-related records to understand how taxpayer dollars are propping up industrial animal agriculture operations at the expense of small family farms. FSA's illegal ...
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Heavy rain celebrated at Canada’s Farm Progress Show to wrap up another successful year
The 2019 edition of Canada’s Farm Progress Show, presented by Viterra, wrapped up on Friday, marking another successful year, perhaps with the rain to thank. “We’re absolutely thrilled that it rained during the show,” said Tim Reid, Regina Exhibition Association Limited President & CEO. “Our hard-working farmers finally got the moisture they were looking for. ...
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Dairy farmers praise mandatory code progress
PEAK dairy farmer group Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) supports the federal government’s commitment to pursuing a mandatory Code of Conduct for the industry. A new code of practice is an important step for the dairy industry that will clarify and strengthen relationships between farmers and processors across all states of Australia. ADF has always said our aim is to address the ...
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Ranking Member Stabenow: Trump Administration Budget Undermines the Bipartisan Farm Bill
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 preview budget proposal. The Administration calls for a 15% cut to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), on top of a $267 billion cut to Farm Bill investments. ...
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Rem Tec Obtains the Revocation of Fraunhofer Institute Patent
With the Hearing held in The Hague on 17/10/2018 REM Tec obtained the revocation of the patent EP 2 811 819 filed in 2013 by the Fraunhofer Institute. Fraunhofer's patent referred to agro-photovoltaic plants for the simultaneous use of agricultural crops and production of energy from solar sources, claiming characteristics already present in REM Tec's AGROVOLTAICO® plants, installed in ...
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Solutions for the storage of liquid fertilizers
Nowadays, we use an intensive farming in which the land does not have rest as we are constantly cultivating. This lack of rest is translated in the inability of the plot of land of renovating the lost nutrients quickly enough. And that is why from an agronomic point of view, the fertilizers and fitosanitary products are the help needed to be able to continue harvesting. Many farmers prefer using ...
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Lakeland Farm & Ranch Direct
As we head into the new year, we are proud to re-introduce ourselves as Lakeland Farm and Ranch Direct, a division of Lakeland Group. We continue to pride ourselves on the livestock-management solutions we take to the market. We want you to know that together we can build your farm the way you want it built. Of course, no one knows your farm better than you. The ins and outs, its successes and ...
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Composting plant Lobau awarded with European Quality Label
At the SusGro 2015 in Vienna the composting plant Lobau was awarded with the European Quality Label by the Austrian Compost Quality Organisation (KGVÖ). The certificate was handed over by ECN Quality Manager Stefanie Siebert and Horst Müller, General Manager of KGVÖ, in the town hall of Vienna. The Austrian Compost Quality Assurance Organisation ‘KGVÖ’ has ...
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John Deere Operations Center Adds Mobile Apps and Mapping Functions
In an effort to enhance the functionality, ease-of-use and overall value of John Deere Operations Center to producers, John Deere announces a new software release for its cloud-based platform. These user-focused changes include more tools and features that enable producers to easily collect and access more farm information and collaborate with partners to gain insights, increase profits and ...
By John Deere
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N.S.T. New Science Technologies Ltd. announces the release of Cropio’s extended US-directed version
N.S.T. New Science Technologies Ltd. has recently released the US-oriented version of its product, Cropio. The company has implemented the US Imperial system in order to simplify and adapt the product specifically for the US market. This decision has been made due to a vast and rapidly growing number of company’s clients in the United States. According to N.S.T Science Technologies ...
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Things to know about marine aquaculture
Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported, yet the Obama administration's push to expand U.S. marine aquaculture into federal waters has failed to see one offshore farm in operation, nearly two years after the first permit was issued. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is pushing for marine aquaculture production in the U.S. to jump by 50 percent by 2020. The ...
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Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides
Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to date. "Despite the very significant progress achieved since the original promulgation of the Code, many national ...
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OSU Agriculture Safety and Health Professionals Offer Grain Handling Safety Tips
With grain harvest well underway statewide thanks to favorable weather conditions throughout the region, growers are reminded that taking extra precautions when handling grain can lessen the potential for injury. When working around grain storage facilities, incidents such as slips, trips, falls, severe trauma injuries, entanglement or engulfment can happen in a fraction of a second, said Kent ...
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EPA Releases Report on Maryland Agriculture Programs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it has completed an evaluation of Maryland’s animal agriculture regulations and programs. The assessment, which is one of six that the agency is conducting of state animal agriculture programs within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, found that Maryland has a robust and well-implemented state program. EPA conducts periodic reviews of ...
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Rooftop farming: The next steps for development
Urban agriculture is becoming increasingly popular. A recent assessment of rooftop farming in Barcelona shows differing attitudes towards the practice, and provides important recommendations for the development of agricultural policy for the 21st century, such as including food production as a potential use of rooftops in planning legislation. Urban agriculture, defined by the Food and ...
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