farm monitor Articles
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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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Digitizing farm for traceability, compliance and output predictability - Case Study
Challenge One of the largest online food and grocery store that is determined to create an organic revolution in India. The company wanted to monitor its farms and ensure that the crops are grown organically. They were struggling with lower output yield and were looking for a farm management solution for ensuring traceability and strengthening sustainability. Solution Digitisation of farm to ...
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Nutrient-Balance Modeling as a Tool for Environmental Management in Aquaculture: The Case of Trout Farming in France
The control and prevention of nutrient pollution from fish farming plays an essential role in the French regulatory framework. Assessing nutrient emissions from fish farms is important in terms of farm authorization, taxation, and monitoring. Currently employed strategies involve both water sampling and empirical modeling. This article reports the work and outcomes of an expert panel that ...
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Using Technology for Complete Farm Management - Case Study
Challenge This case is about one of the world’s largest producers of potato specialties company based in India. The company leases plots for farming and has 2500+ plots spread across an area of 5200 +acres. Earlier, they used to record farm data manually, thus creating multiple inconsistent entries. A check on practices such as dehaulming & rouging, adoption of right package of ...
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Chile Mandates Real-time Environmental Monitoring at Salmon Farms
Ocean-based fish farms in Chile have been ordered by Chilean officials to start monitoring environmental conditions in and around their pens in real time and immediately transmit the data to government environmental agencies. According to the August regulation from the Superintendencia de Medioambiente (SMA), ocean-based aquaculture sites will need to monitor water conditions for dissolved ...
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Best Farm Management Software for Successful Farm Management
Managing your cattle farms, livestock, fisheries, herb of various animals, and everything related to farms manually can be a daunting task that necessitates extra manpower and time, which may divert you from the main goal of establishing farms. Rather than going through so many hassles, it is preferable to look for the best farm management software, which will provide you with a number of ...
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Manage herd and farm
Improve health, raise productivity, save money – herd management with digital technology by GEA offers large and small dairy farms powerful functions for monitoring and managing cow health and operational procedures efficiently on a daily basis. With GEA’s Herd Management your farm is front and center GEA’s Herd Management system filters information to provide the ...
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Fuel your productivity and never run empty
View and track tank levels so you always know what you’ve got on-hand Farm machinery has changed a lot since the first gas-powered tractor rolled into a prairie farm yard about a century ago. But some things resist change. Most farm machinery still runs on fuel and farmers still fret about running out of it. Today, however, as with just about everything else, technology can help. The TELUS ...
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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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5 Ways to Increase Your Poultry Farm Productivity Using a Poultry Software
As one of the fastest growing segments in the agriculture sector, poultry farming has been the talk of the town for quite some time now. With the tremendous growth comes quite a few challenges. And one of the major challenges is the fact that the poultry farms need to be productive. This is where a poultry software comes into the picture. But how does a poultry software ensure that the ...
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Observing the nitrogen cycle in a green manure trial on an organic farm
As part of a 5 year Federal Government funded Landcare project in the Gippsland area of Victoria, a number of on-farm trials have taken place. One of these trials was monitoring a range of green manures on a certified organic vegetable farm. The demonstration trialled and compared 6 different green manure crops each year for 3 years against a control. The control was immediately adjacent to the ...
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How technology helps trace cotton from farm to consumer?
Cotton in numbers and why they matter Every year 27 million tons of cotton is produced globally and it is also the most often used natural fibre according to Statista. The WWF reports cotton production employs almost 7% of all labour in developing countries and provides income for over 250 million people worldwide. They also raise the concerns of the industry’s environmentally ...
By Farmsio Ltd.
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Leveraging the cloud to save time, money on the farm
Most of us have heard of “Internet of Things (IoT)” – the interconnected cloud and devices, like our smart watches, that we use everyday to make lives easier. But what do these smart solutions or the cloud have to do with farming? Everything, according to Jeffrey Poppel, senior product manager for Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture. ...
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The problems with the arguments against GM crops
New evidence shows that arguments against GM crops are unfounded, says Margaret Karembu. The year 2013 marked the 18th consecutive year of commercial cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or now commonly referred to as biotech crops. And in just under two decades, the volume of land on which biotech crops are grown has increased from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 — the first ...
By SciDev.Net
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Benefits of digital access to fuel data
Fuel plays a pivotal role in farm operations, powering everything from tractors and harvesters to irrigation systems and generators. Given the significant portion of operating costs that fuel represents, efficient management is crucial for maintaining profitability and sustainability in farming. Real-time monitoring of fuel data, which is subject to internet connectivity in your area, along with ...
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Reducing the Effects of Methane from Cows in Cattle Farming with Methane Monitors
In 2018, there were an estimated 1.002 billion head of cattle worldwide, an increase of 6.5 million head over 2017.1 Global meat production has continued, and is seemingly continuing, to rise and although cattle now accounts for a relatively smaller percentage of overall meat consumption, there were still over 68 billion tonnes of cattle meat produced in 2014.2 Beef exported from the US alone in ...
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What is Real-Time Monitoring?
How Can Real-Time Data Monitoring Improve the Efficiency of Aqua Farms? Industry experts credit the monitoring of these attributes to crop growth, survival, feed efficiency, water chemistry requirements and the overall effect on production. Benefits of Real-Time Monitoring and Data Access Benefit One: Collecting data to be used for consistent growth and using data collected daily, weekly and ...
By Aquasend
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Pistachios: Increased Staff Efficiency - Case Study
Acres: 200 Goals: Find out what is causing canopy issues Decide if investing in improvements is worthwhile Increase yields Equipment Installed: Pressure Sensors Soil Sensors Dendrometers 1 Weather Station Information Provided: Our data exposed problems with their irrigation system which helped motivate them to upgrade the entire 200 acres. Once the new system was being monitored ...
By Farm(x)
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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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New Zealand Mussel Farm Uses Real-Time Salinity Monitoring to Reduce Impact of Harvesting Closures
Overview Westpac Mussels worked with IoT firm Adroit to deploy a data buoy equipped with the Aqua TROLL 500 to collect real-time salinity measurements. Live monitoring of salinity data helps the company ensure compliance while reducing the impact of harvesting closures due to weather events. Challenge Water quality monitoring is a necessity in shellfish farming, since filter feeders such as ...
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