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Idrica develops new technologies to optimize agricultural irrigation
These solutions provide a smart system that supports decision-making, optimizes infrastructure control and field work monitoring, thanks to data integration and the use of advanced algorithms. Irrigated agriculture is the world’ s largest consumer of water, accounting for 70% of water withdrawals and 90% of total consumption according to the FAO. There is a pressing need to reduce this ...
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Fungal Disease Awareness Week and Safeguarding Workers and the Public from Preventable Exposure Risks
For 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated September 19th through the 23rd as Fungal Disease Awareness Week. The week is meant to highlight the importance of recognizing serious fungal diseases early enough in the course of a patient’s illness to provide life-saving treatment. According to the CDC: Some fungal diseases go undiagnosed, leading to serious ...
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Carbon Robotics Unveils New Laserweeder with 30 Lasers to Autonomously Eradicate Weeds
Carbon Robotics, an agricultural robotics company, today unveiled its 2022 LaserWeeder implement, an autonomous, laserweeding pull-behind robot that seamlessly attaches to the back of tractors. The new LaserWeeder is a precise, organic, and cost-effective weed control solution for large-scale specialty row crops. In addition to an updated build, the 2022 LaserWeeder features 30 industrial CO2 ...
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Carbon Robotics Closes $27 Million in Series B Financing Round Led By Anthos Capital
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, an agriculture robotics company, today announced it secured $27 million in Series B financing from Anthos Capital, Ignition Partners, Fuse Venture Capital, Voyager Capital, Bolt and Liquid2 Ventures to accelerate the company's growth. The funding will be used to scale production of the company’s products, grow its engineering team, establish ...
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Carbon Robotics Disrupts Farming Industry with Autonomous Weeders
Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, today unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to safely and effectively drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds. Unlike other weeding technologies, the robots utilize high-power lasers to eradicate weeds ...
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Know what you have to sell
Smart farm inventory management –and knowing exactly what you have to sell From seed and product selection to strategic marketing, the days of harvest are central to everything, and that includes your farm inventory management. It’s a lot to juggle off the top of your head. Farm management software helps you create a standardized system to easily collect, share and monitor all of ...
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The Pulse Partnership with EcoPhi
THE PULSE Rwanda Ltd., a Rwanda based company that will manage a network of rural centers for business, services & leisure at the last mile (“THE PULSE Centers”), with the mission to connect and transform the micro-economies of rural Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) communities, announced today a partnership with EcoPhi, a Germany based company that focuses on remote ...
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Oenosans lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture
How Oenosan benefits to the prosperity of winegrowers Oenosan is taken from the Greek word ‘Oinos’, which means wine. Indeed, this ingenious lime fertilizer was specially developed for use in viticulture. Moreover, this substance is certified organic in Belgium by Certisys BE-BIO 001 and is also allowed in Dutch organic farming (see Skal website). In ...
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How to test the bio fertilizer Oenosan
Testing Experiment with Bio Fertilizer Oenosan: 4 Basil pots bought in a regular shop Basil is a warm-weather mediterranean plant. Basil grows well on warm soils but likes more places partly in shaded area. It is well know in Italian cuisine like the use of pesto and as an aromatic herb on fresh tomatoes. This is the fastest way to test Oenosan at home, at your ...
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Alfa Chemistry: Carboxyl-functionalized Pheromone Plays A Role in Pest Management
After launching alcohol-functionalized pheromones and aldehyde-functionalized pheromones in the previous months, the US-based chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry recently announced the release of carboxyl-functionalized pheromones for researchers worldwide. Over the past cascade, insect pheromones have exhibited intriguing potential in pest management and insect trace track. Serving as effective ...
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Why is LED Dimmer Controller Vital to Agricultural Lighting?
Why is LED Dimmer Controller Vital to Agricultural Lighting? The continuous development of science and technology has witnessed farmers lean more towards the advanced technology of LED poultry lighting systems to make the most of their money and efforts, thereby getting more outputs. And among alt the innovative lighting products, the LED dimmer controller is clearly distinguished from all the ...
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Measuring better pasture
A cultivation calculator, believed to be an Australian first, has been developed to help farmers assess how much cultivation work they need to make better pastures. The calculator has emerged as one of the positive outcomes from the Increasing Soil Carbon and Climate Resilient Farms projects, coordinated by Heytesbury District Landcare Network in south-west Victoria. The projects also found ...
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Ola Markusson new CTO for Bioservo Technologies
Bioservo Technologies AB (publ) has recruited Ola Markusson as a new CTO and member of the management team. Ola has extensive experience in product development and change management from larger organizations and will strengthen the development department to enable the company's continued growth. Ola is most recently coming from the role of development director at DeLaval. There he has led the ...
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Follow 5 Factors to Choose the Best Poultry House Lighting Systems
An increasing number of farmers are aware of the significant role of sufficient poultry lighting, especially in the condition that they want higher quantity and quality products. Nowadays, more evidence has shown that sufficient poultry lighting can leave a strong and positive impact on the layering hens and the breeding broilers by maximizing egg production, stimulating mating cycles, and ...
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Groundswell: Small Robots and Tuckwells partner to deliver applications by exception
Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today demonstrates applications by exception at the Groundswell regenerative agriculture show, in partnership with Tuckwells, one of the UK’s leading John Deere dealerships, which has a focus on industry-leading design and technology. The first precision application of herbicides informed by robots to a UK ...
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New Delta-T Devices video - “Using the ML3 ThetaKit to optimise sports turf conditions”
The Delta-T Devices ML3 ThetaKit makes it possible to rapidly check irrigation uniformity and turf characteristics. Regular measurement of soil moisture content allows continual assessment of grass health, giving early warning of potential problems - and enabling preventative action before damaging physical change in the turf has occurred. In the video below, soil scientist and Delta-T Devices ...
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Technology Network : Driving Innovation in Insect Farming
Insect farming is garnering increasing interest in the agri-food sector as the world looks to meet the growing demands for protein in a more sustainable manner. Just like with plant and livestock farming, insect breeding programs can significantly enhance yield and quality, helping the industry to scale. What benefits can insect protein offer? How are regulatory frameworks impacting innovation ...
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A new comprehesive video guide to the AP4 Poromoter
The AP4 Porometer measures stomatal aperture in terms of leaf conductance to water vapour. This is a major determinant of water loss from plant leaves and of CO2 uptake in photosynthesis. The innovative design of the AP4 provides users with logical, convenient operation and a comprehensive range of features and functions. Key benefits include an automated, rapid cycle that gives accurate ...
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Plant app update: Fruit maps are here!
Reaching the desired fruit size in the right timing is one of the main goals of fruit growers. By giving growers real-time size and growth data via our fruit sensors, and comparing the progress to a trajectory defined by them, growers can use irrigation tactics to influence their fruit size until it reaches its size on time. Now we made things even simpler by adding fruit maps to our Plant ...
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Alfa Chemistry Offers Aldehyde-functionalized Pheromone for Pest Management and Insect Trace Tracking
Studies on pheromones are now gaining increasing popularity among scientists. On June 8, 2022, the US-based chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry announced that the company commenced offering aldehyde-functionalized pheromones for researchers worldwide. It should be noted that alcohol-functionalized pheromones, another type of pheromones released earlier this year, have been well-received and ...
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