Agronomy News
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Balancing Act: Reconciling the Laws of Minimum and the Maximum
Does going to the extreme in fertilizer application overcome yield limitations? When it comes to plant development and yield, imbalance is more likely to threaten soil health, production and your pocketbook. Instead, achieving nutrient balance is crucial to crop success. With that in mind, we reflect on the often-perceived conflicting theories – Liebig’s Law of Minimum and ...
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Agco announces sustainable test farm in North dakota
AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, announced today plans to build a state-of-the-art test farm in Casselton, North Dakota. This strategic initiative aims to develop innovative farming practices to create a truly sustainable farm, specifically focusing on precision agriculture ...
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CNH Industrial and ONE SMART SPRAY announce integration of precision spraying solution
CNH Industrial and ONE SMART SPRAY, a joint venture between Bosch and BASF, have signed a collaboration agreement to integrate the latter’s advanced spraying system within CNH Industrial’s agricultural brand product portfolios. The system’s integration will be led by the Raven team and will be commercially available via the global Case IH and New Holland Agriculture brands. The ...
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Bayer collaborates with Microsoft to unveil new cloud-based enterprise solutions, advancing innovation and transparency in the agri-food industry
Ready-to-use AgPowered Services from Bayer running on the new Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture Readymade capabilities and robust digital infrastructure allow innovators to focus on differentiated value Companies, farmers and consumers share value through better connected solutions and increased supply chain transparency that support sustainable agriculture and food production ...
By Bayer AG
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Sentera Brings AI to the Field to Advance Agronomic Data
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Oct. 19, 2022 – Sentera, the industry leading ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, today announced advancements to its machine learning framework that powers more precise and accurate decisions from agronomic leaders. Named KRNL, Sentera’s machine learning framework serves as core functionality to its innovative technology solutions and services ...
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New Crop Health Insights Validate Agriscience Development
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Sep. 21, 2022 – Sentera, the industry leading ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, today launched seven new crop health and performance analytics as part of its FieldInsights product, which helps agronomic leaders make critical in-season and post-harvest decisions with accurate and reliable data sets. For research and seed production leaders in ...
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Westfield Firm Gives Farmers a Drone’S eye view of Crops
Farmer Dave Chance regularly walks his fields, scouting for problems ranging from pest infestations to nutritional shortcomings to weeds. It’s a practice followed by farmers since time immemorial. But Chance doesn’t do quite as much of it as he once did. These days, he’s got drones for that. Three years ago, he enlisted the services of Westfield-based agricultural monitoring ...
By Taranis
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Plant Genebanking: Investing Seeds for the Future
For many years, the agricultural sector has worked on the continuous development of sustainable practices to provide sufficient food and medicine supply for a growing population. Among the many challenges they aim to resolve are the issues inflicted by plant disease outbreaks and upsurge, pests, and climate change. The conservation and increase of diversity of plant species are recognized ...
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Grão Direto and Bayer collaborate to expand the reach and impact of sustainable practices in grain trading
Grão Direto, the largest digital platform for grain trading in Latin America, developed in collaboration with Bayer the introduction of the “Sustainable Practices Badge” on its digital marketplace. The badge indicates which farmers on the platform are utilizing agronomic practices that are more beneficial to the environment. The initiative allows the startup to provide even ...
By Bayer AG
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SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Bayer Announce their Sustainability Challenge Winners
Today, SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Bayer announced the winners of their 2021 Sustainability Challenge. The Sustainable Startup Award was presented to Haystack, a US based company that enables carbon market scalability by helping farmers and carbon markets quantify carbon accurately and cost-effectively. Haystack will receive a prize package that includes investment from SVG Ventures and a place ...
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2021 Accelerating a Generation Syngenta Scholarship Program recipients chosen
Six students looking to study everything from agronomy and crop science to environmental engineering have earned a $2,500 scholarship, plus a donation to the charity of their choosing, through the Accelerating a Generation Syngenta Scholarship Program. A talented crop of students applied to the 2021 scholarship program, in a partnership with Syngenta and run by the National FFA ...
By Syngenta
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New Oilseed Rape Hybrid Stands Firm Against Sclerotinia Pressure
A new winter oilseed rape hybrid variety is clearly standing up to pressure from the fungal disease sclerotinia as infection begins to rise in different parts of the UK. PT303 Protector® Sclerotinia from Pioneer, the seed brand of CortevaTM Agriscience, is living up to its claim to be the first variety offering growers genetic tolerance to the disease following recent ...
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John Deere Now Offers JDLink™ Connectivity Service at No Additional Charge
John Deere is now offering customers JDLink™ connectivity service at no additional charge, making it easy for customers to connect machines and to stay connected. The change allows customers to quickly activate the JDLink connectivity service and manage their connected machines within their John Deere Operations Center account, either on the web or the mobile app. Connectivity subscriptions ...
By John Deere
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By September 2021, SupPlant`s sensor-less technology will be implemented by 500,000 farmers in Kenya
SupPlant has raised $10 million in a funding round co-led by Boresight Capital, Menomadin Foundation, Smart-Agro Fund and Mivtah Shamir. The investment brings SupPlants’s total funding since the company was founded in 2012 to over $19 million. SupPlant’s technology is designed for the world’s 450 million small growers. By September 2021, the sensor-less technology will be ...
By SupPlant
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Timac Agro USA Technologies Selected for Phase 2 of the EEFs Agronomic Challenge
We are proud to announce that the two TIMAC AGRO USA technologies submitted to the Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs): Environmental and Agronomic Challenge were among the 16 solutions selected to move forward to Phase Two of the competition. In the next stage, Duo Maxx and Top-Phos® will go through greenhouse trials conducted by the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), in ...
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HPGen™ improves crop yields, reduces irrigation system maintenance in Almeria greenhouse
Located in the highly productive greenhouse area in the Almeria region in southern Spain, a greenhouse grower with cucumbers in winter and watermelons in summer ran into some irrigation issues: the soil in the region is dry, the climate warm and the operators use organic fertilizers. The plants are grown in the typical Almeria sandy soil (enarenado) and are irrigated with a modern drip irrigation ...
By HPNOW
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Pre-season maintenance: greasing bearings, replacing wear items and… software upgrades?
As spring field work approaches, the clanking of wrenches, gurgle of oil cans and crackle of welders can be heard from farm shops around the world. This buzz of activity is all in the name of preparation for the most important job of the year: planting. This year, as you check the boxes on your spring maintenance checklist, don’t forget to add a box for another important preparatory item: ...
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Peroxide UltraPure™ produced directly on site boosts blueberries through increased organic soil content, uniform irrigation
The Huelva region in southern Spain is an important area for agriculture. Dry soil and a warm climate, combined with the use of organic fertilizer, can be challenging for growers, however. A 24-hectare blueberry plantation in Huelva, part of an organization producing high quality organic berries, turned to HPNow for help. Together with the operators of the farm and leading agronomists, HPNow ...
By HPNOW
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Meet Growing together, watering better: Irritec`s new bi-monthly newsletter for experts and enthusiasts in the field
“Growing together, watering better” is Irritec’s new newsletter designed to help experts and enthusiasts in the field to discover the perfect sustainable solutions for the irrigation of the best-known crops in agriculture. A bi-monthly appointment that brings together all the experience of our best qualified Irritec agronomists in the field of micro-irrigation, alongside the ...
By IRRITEC SpA
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Celebrating 20 Years of Software Evolution with SMS!
For 20 years, our SMS Software has made farm management decision making easier. With data gathered from planting to harvest, all of the information you need to make profitable decisions and manage your field data is right at your fingertips. Every year, SMS continues to become more informative and accessible. However, let’s look back on some major milestones that make this tool worth ...
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