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Hello digital, goodbye analog
How to use and interpret your farm information Every pass of your field in-season provides a critical commodity: information. As farming becomes progressively larger, busier and more high-tech, the regular use and interpretation of farm information is even more important. This information is mandatory to successfully farm in 2023 and beyond – but what’s the best way to leverage it ...
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Farm At Hand feature spotlight
Adding photos to your Farm At Hand records Getting the most out of your farm information means being able to see the whole picture – literally. Adding photos to your records in Farm At Hand helps you and your farm team quickly save visual information key to your farm’s success. Easily snap photos of delivery tickets so they can’t get lost in the backseat of the truck. Quickly ...
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Social impacts of reduced water availability in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin: adaptation or maladaptation
This paper outlines water reform policy in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin area. Drawing on research with key informants and farm family members, it notes the significant social impacts in the communities in the region and the limits to adaptation evident amongst people in these areas. It outlines the vulnerability of individuals and communities and notes the need for actions to build ...
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Ag in Motion 2020: Virtual Content
Field days and trade shows looked a little different than usual in 2020. In July, Kendall Gee of Crop Intelligence, and Curtis Russell with Taurus Ag Marketing https://www.taurus.ag/team/ met in a canola field southeast of Regina to discuss how soil moisture data can help inform farm decision making throughout the growing season. The video includes a walk-through of live data from Crop ...
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Flood event capacity building
Experiences, e.g. in the years 2002, 2006 and 2011, showed the dangers and consequences Elbe-floods can cause for people, livestock and material assets. Depending on the geographical situation, the type of farm and other aspects every farmer has to concern many different things to protect his farm against flood and cope with the consequences. The Chamber of Agriculture represents the interests ...
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Flood Event Capacity Building
Experiences, e.g. in the years 2002, 2006 and 2011, showed the dangers and consequences Elbe-floods can cause for people, livestock and material assets. Depending on the geographical situation, the type of farm and other aspects every farmer has to concern many different things to protect his farm against flood and cope with the consequences. The Chamber of Agriculture represents the interests ...
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Qualitative Stakeholder Analysis for the Development of Sustainable Monitoring Systems for Farm Animal Welfare
Continued concern for animal welfare may be alleviated when welfare would be monitored on farms. Monitoring can be characterized as an information system where various stakeholders periodically exchange relevant information. Stakeholders include producers, consumers, retailers, the government, scientists, and others. Valuating animal welfare in the animal-product market chain is regarded as a key ...
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A critical comparison of using a probabilistic weather generator versus a change factor approach; irrigation reservoir planning under climate change
In the UK, there is a growing interest in constructing on-farm irrigation reservoirs, however deciding the optimum reservoir capacity is not simple. There are two distinct approaches to generating the future daily weather datasets needed to calculate future irrigation need. The change factor approach perturbs the observed record using monthly change factors derived from downscaled climate ...
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Modernisation in agriculture: what makes a farmer adopt an innovation?
This paper addresses the question of which factors influence a farmer in deciding to adopt an innovation. We differentiate between innovations that are already widely diffused in the sector, innovations that are early in their process of diffusion, and innovations that are entirely new to the farmer's sector. We use an ordered probit approach to relate adoption behaviour to variables that capture ...
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Getting your team on board with new software
Software isn’t scary. There is an easy way to get your team on board and it’s all about how you do it. We see it all the time with new customers — the boss sees what our product can do and gets so excited. “Look at how much time we’ll save!” he says. “We can get rid of our old, clunky system and our paper timesheets, and do it all on one system.” ...
By Agrimap LLC
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Importance of Farm Records
A good record keeping system can assist a farmer to make informed business and movement decisions. Accurate financial and production data help a producer make necessary adjustments to operate more efficiently, plan for the future and pinpoint the weaknesses of a farm and allow the producer to act accordingly . Keep track of assets / inventory such as money (receivables, and payable), livestock, ...
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How To Discover A Local Egg Tray Machine Nigeria Business
Have you been in Nigeria today? Would you like to get a new x-ray making machine to your company? When you would, there are several businesses that sell them for a reasonable cost. A number of the egg trays that you will need to make could be quite substantial. Others may not be as large, requiring a greater machine for several of your respective other products. Egg trays and egg cartons are ...
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Improving fish farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies through information utilisation in Akinyele local government area of Oyo State, Nigeria: implication for sustainable fish production
This paper assesses the information utilisation by fish farmers on climate change adaptation strategies with the view of improving their adaptation to climate change and as well increasing fish production in Nigeria. A survey was carried out to obtain data from the farmers. The data collected were analysed by using frequency count, mean and percentage. Information that could have improved ...
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Information and the subsistence farmer's decision to deforest in Latin America
This paper investigates the role that information plays in the decision by subsistence farmers to deforest, and generates a body of evidence from three Latin American studies demonstrating that information about agricultural techniques and general agricultural education are important to tropical land-use decisions. Based on a growing body of literature, inadequately defined property rights ...
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An App that Supports Decision-Making and Planning
Informed decision-making leads to smarter decision-making. As Elston Solberg, Crop Intelligence’s own expert agronomist, has said before—"trust the data so you can crush the agronomy.” The data that our Crop Intelligence app provides and the support that our team offers helps you inform your planning and decision-making—both in-season and before next season. Fertility ...
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Carcass Poultry Shredder
GEP ECOTECH carcass poultry shredder system is an excellent solution for slaughterhouse and farm waste disposal and can handle the on-site removal of whole carcasses with ease, such as poultry, swine, sheep, cattle, and even fish. Thanks to its medical-grade sterilization and its unique shredding technology it can easily help you recover animal by-products on-site after the carcass disposal ...
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Photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics and chlorophyll content of soybean seedlings under combined stress of bisphenol A and cadmium
Bisphenol A (BPA) is ubiquitous in the environment due to its continual application in plastics and epoxy resin industry. Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal element mainly used in smelting, electroplating and plastic/dye manufacturing. BPA and Cd pollution exist simultaneously in many agricultural regions. However, little information is available regarding the combined effects of BPA ...
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Unsound science? Transatlantic regulatory disputes over GM crops
In the risk debate over genetically modified (GM) crops, Europe's regulatory delays have often been branded as "political", i.e. not based on science. Yet the US slogan "sound science" tends to conceal value-laden features of safety claims, their weak scientific basis, their normative framing and their socio-political influences. By contrast a "precautionary ...
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Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate – Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana - Case Study
Introduction Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate supports hundreds of thousands of farmers across five countries in Africa. SourceTrace solution was used to digitize 240,000 cocoa farmers to grow cocoa certified under UTZ, Rainforest Alliance and Fair Trade in the West African countries of Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Ghana. The farms are distributed across different locations in these three ...
By SourceTrace
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Insight is better than 20-20!
Farm management software takes collaboration between your on-farm team and trusted advisors to the next level They say two heads are better than one. For today’s progressive farmer, this sentiment couldn’t be more true. With land values, input costs, machinery pricing and an increasingly competitive global market, maintaining an edge has never been so important to your operation. ...
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