Farmland Articles
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Soil Sensors: The Key to Efficient and Sustainable Agricultural Management
Abstract:As the global population continues to grow and resources become increasingly strained, the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production are becoming increasingly important. Soil sensors play a vital role in this process, providing real-time information on soil conditions to help farmers manage and improve their fields more effectively.Advantages of soil sensors:First, improve ...
By JXCT
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It’ll all be for the same purpose: to maximize the yield and take care of that soil
Brad McDougald jokes that farmers can always find something to complain about. “Doesn’t matter whether it’s too warm, too dry, too cold,” McDougald says with a chuckle. This year was a dry season in Drumheller, Alta., where his 2,500-acre farm produced about 40 per cent of its regular yield of wheat, canola, peas, lentils and barley. But for all the elements outside a ...
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Murphy Family Vestal Hog Farms Dragonfly Wastewater Treatment System - Case Study
The proliferation of large and efficient confined animal farms has created a significant problem for the processing and disposal of the water used for cleaning and cooling as well as other applications on the typical farm. The answer is Water Energy’s utilization of the technology presently known as the Dragonfly Water Treatment System. The result is the only hog farm capable of reusing ...
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How to compost pig manure into high quality organic fertilizer?
As we all know, fresh pig manure is rich in organic matter, but also contains a lot of volatile substances, pathogenic microorganisms, parasite eggs and heavy metals. In addition, fresh pig manure can produce an unpleasant smell. Therefore, unfermented pig manure cannot be used directly. But managed pig manure is free of odors and bacteria or parasite eggs. At the same time, bacterial protein and ...
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The Dangers of Farm Slurry and the Production of Slurry Gas
Slurry is created from cow manure and water and provides a fantastic, natural fertiliser that farmers can use to encourage the growth of grass and other crops. It is usually stored in a slurry tank or lagoon before it is applied to farmland as fertiliser. The dangers of working with slurry are well documented, as high amounts of gases can be released very quickly. How is farm slurry made? Waste ...
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How to treat wastewater in livestock farm?
Livestock wastewater is the third largest source of pollution after industrial wastewater and domestic wastewater. It has the characteristics of high organic matter concentration, high ammonia nitrogen concentration, high suspended solids and pathogenic bacteria content, etc. It is a kind of high-concentration organic wastewater that is difficult to treat. Why does livestock wastewater need to ...
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A Saline Duper Wheat that Tolerates Higher Salt Concentrations!
In the past few decades, agricultural land has been largely lost, and increased salinity in soils around the world has received much attention. Nowadays, nearly 8% of the world's arable land can no longer be used for crop cultivation due to salt pollution, and more than half of the world's countries are affected. Wheat is the second largest grain grown after corn and grows more on Earth than any ...
By Lifeasible
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Aviro D16 Drone: The way to respond to agricultural losses due to pests
Agriculture is the backbone of the critical industry, especially in Southeast Asia regions, and helps sustain food security worldwide. Notably, they produce prominent productions like rice and palm oil. Each region's most scenic coastline is subjected to the country's broadest range of geographical hazards. The sector currently faces some challenges, including a shortage of human ability, ...
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Subsurface Drip Irrigation of Omaha Golf Course Fairways with Treated Effluent
ABSTRACT In 1999, in addition to the existing 825 lots developed in the 1970’s, a new 600-lot subdivision was commenced at Omaha Beach. Omaha Beach is a popular recreation beach community north of Auckland. In conjunction with the new residential development the existing 9-hole golf course was expanded to a full 18-hole course. The existing wastewater treatment and disposal infrastructure ...
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Characteristics & Advantage Of Commercial Farming
Commercial farming is a method where the crops and livestock are raised to sell products in order to make money. To raise commercial farming, a huge amount of capital investment is necessary. Along with that, it needs large scale farms, modern technologies, innovative farm machinery, good irrigation methods, chemical fertilizers etc. to produce a high yield. Commercial farming has the main ...
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Pini Kay Briquettes Processing Plant
There are many raw materials used to process sawdust briquettes. All kinds of logs, hardwoods, and branches are common raw materials, such as pine, oak, etc. Various farmland straws can also be used to process pini kay logs, such as cotton stalks, sorghum stalks, rice stalks, corn stalks, corn cobs, rice husks, peanut husks, palm husks, etc. The complete set of sawdust briquettes making machine ...
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Exactly How The New Pyrolysis Machines Can Make Waste Agricultural Products Into Money
As most people reside in or close to the cities all across the globe, many are surprised to learn that there is plenty of agricultural waste produced in farm areas. Actually, worldwide, there is about 998 million tonnes of organic waste produced every year. And, that amount actually makes up for huge percentage of all the solid waste on the planet. When you thought the area dump, or landfill, was ...
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What are bioplastics and where are they used?
Bioplastics are biodegradable plastics. They will typically break down completely in three to six months whereas regular plastics can take up to 1000 years to break down to the same extent. Biodegradable plastics could play a key role in helping to solve the problem of plastic wasted. Here, plastic manufacturing specialist Ansini provide a quick guide to what you need to know. Understanding the ...
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Ambitious green farming requirements can lead to higher environmental benefits, study shows
A new JRC study shows how the choices farmers make to adopt voluntary green practices are affected by how much they are already obliged to contribute to the environment. The behavioural science study finds that the more mandatory requirements placed on farmers, the less likely they are to make additional voluntary contributions. However, if the mandatory requirements are ambitious enough, the ...
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Manure pump saves time and money
It is becoming increasingly difficult to spread manure in many countries due to new regulations and a shortened spreading season. The Smits family in the Netherlands was looking for a way to spread digestate more efficiently. We came up with a great solution for this; by pumping manure underground over long distances. This saves time and money and has less impact on the ...
By BBA Pumps BV
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Cattle Rustling
Cattle rustling is THE ideal use case for the aerial and mobility advantages drones provide. Stock theft tends to happen in more remote areas where access and monitoring is more difficult for terrestrial based operations, whether by foot or vehicle and line of sight could be obscured by obstacles. It is a worldwide problem but in particular in Latin America in countries such as Brazil and ...
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The dangers of farm slurry and the production of slurry gas
Slurry is created from cow manure and water and provides a fantastic, natural fertiliser that farmers can use to encourage the growth of grass and other crops. It is usually stored in a slurry tank or lagoon before it is applied to farmland as fertiliser. The dangers of working with slurry are well documented, as high amounts of gases can be released very quickly. How is farm slurry made? Waste ...
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Can Fish be Happy?
The sixth installment in the series “Happy Fish - How Aquaculture Operators are Growing Better Fish.” A curious question that we have been asking is a concept that we’re thinking about in regards to fish – can fish be happy or show signs of happiness? Both RAS systems and Net Pen operations aim to raise the best and highest quality fish to fetch the greatest market value. ...
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Farm livestock manure organic fertilizer production line
Common livestock manure organic fertilizer production line processes are: pig manure organic fertilizer production line, chicken manure organic fertilizer production line, sheep manure organic fertilizer production line and cattle manure organic fertilizer production line. For large-scale breeding areas, a large number of pig manure, chicken manure and cow manure are produced every day. They are ...
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Top Practices and Systems in Regenerative Agriculture
In our recent blog on ‘Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Change,’ we explored the prospects of regenerative agriculture in combating climate change. Its benefits are continuously evolving and still core to controversial scientific debates. However, we concluded that regenerative agriculture is an approach that puts us in the right frame of mind. It means thinking beyond minimising ...
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