Agriculture Reporting Articles
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ASA Survey Shows Herbicide Strategy Compliance Difficult for Farmers
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed several pesticide registration plans that could significantly affect farmers’ abilities to utilize herbicides. EPA is responsible for approving registrations on pesticides in the United States and has consistently been found by courts to have not properly evaluated the registrations’ effects on endangered species. In order to meet ...
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How to create perfect scouting reports in three easy steps
Scouting reports hold incredible value if done correctly. Growers, crop advisors and their teams can share relevant information, keep track of important occurrences and make better decisions based on facts. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create the best and most efficient scouting reports. One of the first and oldest field data collection methods is scouting. Farmers would ...
By Farm21 BV
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How ZR3I Managed To Be The First Digital Agri SaaS Platform in the Arab World
INTRODUCTION Zr3i is a digital agricultural platform that provides data to the small farmers, agriculture businesses and all workers in the agriculture sector. Zr3i has developed a website and an android application for Egypt and the Arab World that are available in Arabic language for better understanding for local farmers. “Zr3i’s main objective is to provide detailed ...
By Farmonaut
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How is technology changing the management of poultry farms?
Poultry farming in the modern day is driven by continuous improvements in digital tools and data. Over the years, technology and poultry farming have brought together various ways to increase production, efficiency and the overall profit. With the poultry software solutions adapting to the latest technological advancements, the future of poultry farming is bound to be more technology driven ...
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Legal Hemp In 2019 May Be A Boon For Stressed Out American Farmers
Legal hemp is about to enter the American scene in a big way. The 2018 Farm Bill, which includes language that legalizes hemp across the U.S., was signed into law this week by President Trump. The stroke of that pen unleashes a potential economic dynamo for American farmers. Currently used in over 25,000 products globally, industrial hemp-based goods include automotive parts, furniture, ...
By Pharmalogyx
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Affects of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) in Shrimp Farming (Part 3)
White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is now and has for some time been the most serious threat facing the shrimp farming industry in Asia. It is an extremely virulent pathogen with a large number of host species. This disease is probably the major cause of direct losses of shrimp farming in Asia. Similarly, in Latin America, losses due to WSSV have been substantial. In addition, indirect losses in ...
By Vinnbio
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British farms could turn to robots to deal with a post-Brexit labour crisis
LONDON — British farmers could turn to robots to fill gaps in their supply of labour if the UK's exit from the European Union causes a shortage of migrant workers to work in the industry. That is according to a new report from the Financial Times, which cites the creation of a new farming robot named Thorvald, designed to do unskilled but laborious tasks on the UK's farms post-Brexit. ...
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Can bats reduce nut farmers’ pesticide use?
Ecologist Katherine Ingram is on a quest to quantify the economic value of insect-eating bats in walnut groves. For the past three years, Katherine Ingram has had a most unusual summer job: catching bats and studying their droppings to see what they eat. A doctoral student in ecology at the University of California, Davis, Ingram is exploring the role bats can play as winged soldiers in the ...
By Ensia
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Record Crops Predicted – Storing Chemicals in Suitable Vertical Storage Tanks
The US is celebrating bumper crops this year, according to Farming UK. The publication states that the record-breaking corn harvest this year surpassed expectations of the US Department of Agriculture and it seems that because of the warm summer this year, that the UK could be following in its footsteps. Farming UK also reports on a trial that examines the good health of sugar beet crops. With ...
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