wheat farming Articles
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Classification of Bidens in wheat farms
Bidens pilosa L. (commonly known as cobbler's peg) is an annual broad leaf weed widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world and is reported to be a weed of 31 crops, including wheat. Automatic detection of Bidens in wheat farms is a non-trivial problem due to their similarity in colour and presence of occlusions. This paper proposes a methodology which could be used to ...
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Hierarchical modelling applied to agriculture: wheat planting decisions in the Pacific Northwest
This paper presents a hierarchical decision model that predicted Alturas soft white spring wheat would be the best spring wheat variety to plant in the Pacific Northwest in 2006. Profitability depends on changing market demands and competition with other crops. The challenge of wheat farming is sustaining profitability. A four level hierarchical decision model approach was selected for this ...
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MILAS implementation at W & H Marriage & Sons
One single version of the truth for animal feed production and flour mill In 1824, William and Henry Marriage started to mill the wheat their family farm was producing. These brothers founded a rapidly growing company, by using wind and waterpower in order to mill bread flour. In 1899, the company moved its main office to Chelmer Mills in Chelmsford (English county of Essex), where it is ...
By BESTMIX
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Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Opinion piece: sustainability gets supercharged thanks to all-new formulation designed to drive yield As a farmer your job is as simple as it is intensely complex: sustainably produce food to feed the world. A key component of profitable agriculture is using the exact amount of inputs to drive yields. Fertilizer, your largest expense, must be critically timed to achieve the best results. ...
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Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
The world’s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tons, up 53 million tons from the previous record in 2009. Consumption grew by 90 million tons over the same period to 2,280 million tons. Yet with global grain production actually falling short of consumption in 7 ...
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Minnick Farm Minnesota, USA - Case Study
From Leasing to Wind Farms to Owning His Own. Cosmos, Minnesota (USA), sits along the South Fork of the Crow River. Grain is the lifeblood of the small city, having been founded in 1867 by a pair of wheat farmers. ...
By Eocycle
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Hit the Spring Planting Target with Hydraulic Down Force
Will Hutchinson enjoys a good challenge, especially when it comes to improving production on his row crop, wheat and alfalfa farm near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. So when he saw the opportunity to leverage Ag Leader’s Hydraulic Down Force system to prevent a common problem and improve his planting operations on acres where he plants cover crops, he jumped at the chance. Two years later, ...
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A Saline Duper Wheat that Tolerates Higher Salt Concentrations!
In the past few decades, agricultural land has been largely lost, and increased salinity in soils around the world has received much attention. Nowadays, nearly 8% of the world's arable land can no longer be used for crop cultivation due to salt pollution, and more than half of the world's countries are affected. Wheat is the second largest grain grown after corn and grows more on Earth than any ...
By Lifeasible
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A review of the phosphorus content of dry cereal and legume crops of the world
When food scarcity increases, instability in society increases. The majority of food consumed is from cereals and legumes. Phosphorus is essential for crop plant growth and soils are depleted as this element is removed from crop lands with harvested grains/seeds. To sustain yields, inputs of nutrients are required to balance losses. On global and continental/regional bases, we assembled nine ...
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LIVE FROM THE NCRS: Yet Another Busy Day at the NCRS
So yesterday (Wednesday Jul 22, 2015) was another busy day to take advantage of the nice weather. Like moving the wheat harvest operation over to Farm 7. OK, this is pretty lame. But you have to admit that the chrome on the back of the grain trailer is kept pretty shiny. (See what happens when you go from researcher to management!) Over in the orchard the crew is continuing the ...
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Yield differences so large you can see them from outer space
When evaluating products, growers trust the results they see with their own eyes. The benefit of a different seed variety, irrigation system, fertilizing practice, new product, or method is suspect until the crop looks healthier and yields are higher. Growers remain skeptical until these technologies succeed in the climate and conditions of their region and in their own hands – because the ...
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On-farm evaluation of winter wheat yield response to residual soil Nitrate-N in North China plain
High soil nitrate-N accumulation has been observed in North China Plain (NCP), but it was seldom considered as a N source in N management due to the lack of data on crop response to soil nitrate-N accumulation. A total of 124 on-farm N-response experiments were conducted from 2003 to 2006 in seven key winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production regions of NCP to evaluate wheat yield response ...
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Have humans tilted the climate books out of balance?
In the great book-keeping of climate change, scientists have just discovered a big mistake. They have been wrong, they now think, to count on the mountains, the plains, the forests and the grasslands as an agency that slows climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide. It does absorb carbon dioxide. But the chilling news is that the soil itself may be making the world warmer. That is because ...
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