Fungicides Articles
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Wireless Soil Moisture Sensor Data Financial Benefits - Case Study
Managing sports turf in a school environment, has a whole extra set of influencing factors, that make maintenance decisions even more difficult. The ability to use intelligent solutions for maintaining optimal turf conditions regardless of limited budgets and increasing demands for sustainable maintenance has proved influential to a forward thinking turf professional, who wants to stay ahead ...
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Tips for a successful crop scouting
You will often hear the statement “the best thing to put into your field is your shadow” or your “footprint”, or “boots” and the list goes on. This statement is very true, but begs the question “how can I be more effective when I am in my fields?” Understanding where to look first, what to look for or knowing where to look based on ...
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Ancient roots of wheat virus resistance
The DNA sequence of a gene responsible for resistance to a devastating virus in wheat has been discovered, providing important clues for managing more resistant crops and maintaining a healthy food supply. Wheat crops in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa are regularly damaged by wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV), and there is a high demand for wheat varieties or cultivars that are resistant ...
By Lifeasible
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Why Modern Farm Management Is The Solution to Sustainability
With eight billion people currently existing on our planet and a population predicted to continue to grow into the future, we no longer have the luxury of unlimited, untapped natural resources. Therefore sustainability, or the idea of maintaining the resources we do have so we have them in the future, has become integral to the future survival of human beings. When it comes to sustainable ...
By AGRIVI
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Crop rotation and soil health
They go together like salt and pepper – they’re better together When you have a strong and varied crop rotation, it produces a greater diversity in the soil microbiome, which improves activity both above and below the surface. One of the most critical parts about a healthy crop rotation is bacteria – both good and bad – because when you change crops, you change pathogens. ...
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Ozone for Vertical Farming
Ozone in vertical farming is an excellent organic fungicide and biocide. In addition to its high efficiency and the advantages of not leaving chemical residues on the leaves. When ozone is dissolved in water favors root growth and increases dissolved oxygen in plants. About 90% of the water used worldwide is for agriculture. Ozone helps reduce the amount of water and helps inactivate viruses ...
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Bananas Face Another Extinction Crisis, Can Gene Editing Save Bananas?
Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in the world, however, in fact bananas are at stake and we may no longer eat them at any time. And the source of this crisis is fungal infection, and in 1950, an outbreak of a banana infectious disease with fungal infection called "Panama disease" directly led to the complete extinction of Gros Michel, the most widely planted banana variety at that ...
By Lifeasible
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Improve Wine Quality & Fermentation with Purfresh Wine
Purfresh Wine’s patented technology enhances your wine’s quality by bringing out its most positive elements, including increased tannins, hue stability, and fruit-forward palate notes. We have found improvements specifically with full-bodied red varietals. ...
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From the Farm View - Spencer Shouse, STR Farms
STR Farms, run by father and son team Barry and Spencer Shouse, is an 11,000 acre fourth-generation farm near the village of Young, Saskatchewan. Located in the medium brown soil zone, Barry and Spencer grow a rotation of canola, cereals, peas and canary seed. In 2021, they used TELUS Agriculture Weather Stations on their farm for the first time. They “had a really good experience ...
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Probes reveal soil moisture’s many secrets
Soil moisture probes have been around for a long time, but they remain one of those mysterious agricultural instruments that only a small handful of people attempt to understand or use. “Part of the problem is people don’t trust the information,” says Ryan Hutchison of South Country Equipment in Saskatchewan. He was at Crop Connect 2019 in Winnipeg to give a presentation ...
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Impregnation plant for Chinese company - Case Study
An second impregnation plant was sent to China, after the first delivered and installed in ...
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How to ferment sugar dregs quickly to make organic fertilizer
Filter mud, chicken manure, pig manure, furfural residue and sugar residue left from sugar processing in sugar factory can be used as raw materials for organic fertilizer production. They are fermented under suitable conditions to form organic matter, which is then processed by the organic fertilizer production equipment to provide nutrients for crops. Method of fermenting organic fertilizer ...
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Return on Investment in Variable Rate Technology is About a Lot More Than Yield
Delivering value to your farm When you invest hard-earned dollars into new farm technologies, you’d better believe you want to see that value returned to your pockets. But the ways that value shows up are many, and not always so plain to see. With that, many ask: what return on investment (ROI) does variable rate technology (VRT) deliver for my farm? The truth is, it’s a loaded ...
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Linking Vine Growth Stages and Spraying Practices with AI Agritech
Pesticide/fungicide and liquid foliants and fertilisers are a crucial aspect of vineyard management. Sprays keep your vines disease-free, which helps you always produce top-quality fruit. By producing the very best grapes with every harvest, you'll maximise your earnings each time. Both amateur and veteran viticulturists still suffer from inefficient spraying practices, which is not only a ...
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How to Simplify your Test Plots and Maximize Investments
Remember the old days of running test plots? Stopping in the field to place marker flags and make the necessary changes. Then returning in the fall to — with any luck — find the flags and weigh each load. Not to mention the deskwork that followed to evaluate the results. And for me, with a full schedule that includes a 3,200-acre operation plus my wife and three kids, it wasn’t ...
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Modern Miracles
When a technology comes along that unlocks a new way of thinking about an old problem, we marvel at it as a “modern miracle.” Growing up in Ireland, I know that memories of the Great Potato Famine still run deep. Today, Irish farmers know how fungicides have helped ensure that potato late blight remains a distant memory. Agriculture has come a long way since the nineteenth century, ...
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Uncovering your Farm’s Hidden Yield Potential
What are you missing in your harvest data? Across hundreds or even thousands of acres, it’s easy to get lost in this sea of data points. It’s simply too much for one person to calculate. That’s what makes a digital tool a powerful ally. It never gets tired or distracted and when provided the right data, it never puts a decimal in the wrong place. The yield analysis tool in ...
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LOSP impregnation plant in China - Case Study
We have delivered with satisfaction the first LOSP impregnation treatment plant for a large company in ...
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Canada: fighting Cercospora in sugar beets - Case Study
Case Study Summary Application Decision Support System to fight Cercospora Leafspot in sugar beets Location Michigan and Ontario, Canada Products deployed A850 Telemetry Gateway (several) A753 addWAVE UHF A723 addIT UHF SEN-R Temperature and rel. humidity sensor RG Rain Gauge WET Leafwetness sensor Participating Organizations Michigan Sugar Corporation Parameters recorded Air temperature and ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Telemetric agrometeorological network in Bulgaria - Case Study
Case Study Summary Application Agrometeorological network Location Bulgaria Products deployed A850 Telemetry Gateway A753 addWAVE GPRS RTU TR1 Temperature and rel. Humidity sensor RG1 Rain Gauge SP-Lite Solar radiation sensor Contributors Scientact BG Ltd. Participating Organizations BASF Bulgaria Parameters recorded Air temperature and rel. humidity Precipitation Solar ...
By OTT HydroMet
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