grower Articles
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How I arrived at developing Artesian Systems
Personally, I have had too many gardens. I always overdo it and they end up being more work than pleasure, and instead of being pleasing to look at they become an eyesore. Not so with a patio garden. A patio garden has a lot of advantages. For one thing every time you look out the window or go out the door there it is. You get to know your plants and their attendant bugs and birds on a more ...
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On your bike: Making footage capture easy and affordable using pragmatic know-how and the ingenuity of our growers.
Farmers are known for their pragmatic know-how and the ingenuity of our growers is always surprising us. We try to make our systems as simple and accessible as possible for our customers but sometimes getting the right footage from a Gopro, with only what the farmer has on hand, can be a bit of a puzzle. But between the practical know how of the Farmers and the technical knowledge of our team, we ...
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Australian Mango Growers Ready for Major Shipments to US
Australian mango growers and exporters are sending their first big shipments to the US this season, with plans to export between 100 and 200 tonnes in the coming months. This compares to the first export season in February 2015, which saw 5.5 tonnes of mangoes shipped to the US from two growers. ...
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Macadamia nut grower Northland New Zealand Case Stud
Macadamia nut grower Northland New Zealand Supplying their entire crop to a processor 200km away for processing and recieving the nut kernels back in 2kg ...
By Crackadamia
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Who is the My Yield Grower?
The My Yield Grower is today’s independent, progressive and innovative farmer who is taking control of his operation. The My Yield Grower doesn’t waste time waiting in line for treated seed. He doesn’t defer to others on what seed treatment to use on his farm. And he doesn’t get stuck with treated seed he can’t plant, return or sell. The My Yield Grower is ...
By My Yield
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How were the my yield seed treaters built? and why?
From the ground up. And for the farmer. As farmers ourselves, we knew farmers needed to take control of their seed treatment process. We also knew they didn’t have adequate tools to do so. The seed treaters that existed were designed for the big retailer. They were large,complex and very expensive. So we went to the drawing board to design a seed treater specifically for the grower. In ...
By My Yield
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Technology and globalisation: who gains when commodities are de-commodified?
Like many primary products, coffee has long been characterised as a commodity with falling terms of trade and volatile prices. Yet, in recent years, there has been growing product differentiation in final markets, with premium prices being earned and high and sustainable incomes being provided. So far, these product rents have been almost entirely appropriated by residents of high-income ...
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Why three Seed Treaters?
As farmers ourselves, we know each farming operation is unique. One size doesn’t fit all. So we set out address the needs of each and every farmer. We built all of our seed treaters from the ground up for fast, easy and accurate seed treatment on the farm. Each seed treater delivers the same great quality in terms of accuracy, seed coverage and gentleness. But there are some key ...
By My Yield
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Keeping Track Of Pomegranates
Keeping Track of Pomegranates Growing pomegranates is quite a new industry in Australia and Goulburn Valley growers Pomlife are leading the way as Australia’s largest growers. Pomegranates are slow to reach maturity (up to six years) and can be challenging to grow. Pomlife are not only growing for the fresh fruit market but are value adding by packaging arils (seeds) and juice for sale ...
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Pumps supplied to UK`S largest turf grower case study
One of the UK's largest Turf Growers with over a 2000 acre farm, recently contacted T-T to assist in the supply of bespoke pumping equipment. T-T were contracted to design a control panel to operate two contractors' KRS 2-69 pumps, via a generator as the pumps were to be situated in a remote area. Being installed into an existing concrete chamber, the pumps also had a requirement to be duty ...
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Variable Rate Technology: What is it and what are the Benefits?
Every day, as ag professionals, the focus is on the day-to-day needs of the farm, regardless if you’re a farmer, a retailer, advisor, or service provider. We all think about how to answer questions like which seed will perform the best this year, will commodity prices will be favorable, or will this year finally be another golden year like 2008… But, one of the biggest questions is a ...
By Growers
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Microbrewery and Craft Beer brewers could face hop shortage
We’ve mentioned how we’re supplying more and more cone bottom tanks to microbreweries and craft brewing companies. This week, the Financial Times reports that the industry could face a challenge in the form of a shortage of hops this year. That’s because the key growing areas in the USA and Europe are experiencing blistering heat, something that is threatening this year’s ...
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Sentera FieldAgent Stand Count Analytics Expand to Include Cotton
Stand count analytics available for cotton growers in the 2020 growing season Sentera announced that its stand count analytics product will be immediately available for cotton crops within FieldAgent.™ This extension to Sentera’s stand count tool will help cotton growers and ag professionals make informed replant decisions via a detailed, acre-by-acre view of plant population ...
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The Value of Stand Count: When Replant Decisions are on the Line, Accuracy Counts
Making the decision to replant is one of the most difficult that a grower can face, with costly consequences that can impact an entire season of profits. For generations, growers have relied on manual stand count methods to inform replant decisions, but data gathered manually has challenges – difficult and time consuming to collect, limited in scope and prone to errors. Additionally, ...
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Fresh growers achieve market-ready results with 1,4SIGHT® and 1,4Zap®
There are two treatments for stored potatoes from which fresh growers are seeing year-after-year effectiveness. Well-timed applications of 1,4SIGHT® or 1,4ZAP® demonstrate results that help growers get the most out of their stored spuds, like reduced load rejection. The two different applications can be implemented in the spring and early summer, and are timed strategically in close ...
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Australian Lychee Growers to Export to US
Lychees are a sub-tropical fruit grown in tropical Far North Queensland, Central Queensland, South East Queensland and Northern NSW. Australia has the longest lychee season in the world which begins in late October and finishes around late March and produces around 3000 tonnes each year. The new US trial has been developed in collaboration with the United States Department of ...
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NUE Explained: What is a Nutrient Use Efficiency score?
Are you making the most of your soil? Understanding your NUE score is pivotal to understanding not just nitrogen use efficiency, but also your soil’s overall potential. Effectively and efficiently managing inputs is one of the best ways growers can lower operating costs, maintain yield and reduce waste, but with so many factors impacting the production of each bushel, it can ...
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Almond Grower Slashes Water Usage
The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years. Places like California are already facing very dry conditions, but these are quite gentle compared with some periods in the 12th and 13th Centuries. The drought in California has reached dire proportions, landing agriculture directly in the regulatory ...
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Berry Gardens - Case Study
‘This project… has given us new insights into the amount and causes of food waste at harvest. As a result, we plan to do further investigations while tracking food waste with our growers at more points across the season.’ Read this case study from a joint delivered by Berry Gardens, their strawberry growers and WRAP to gather new data on farm food waste and upskill the Berry ...
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The future of lighting by focusing on DLI and PSS value
To what extent can a grower produce efficiently more? By measuring several aspects on a daily basis and making adjustments when necessary. The knowledge among both growers and researchers is growing, and with it, the certainty and the quality of the harvest are increasing. Think of recent developments such as lighting according to the DLI (Daily Light Integral) concept instead of the classic ...
By Oreon
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