Barley Farming News
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Poultry Feed Pellet Mill Machine Make Pig Feed Pellets
If you are still buying poultry feed pellet from commercial feed factory or feed shop, then your cost per year for buying feed may be a lot. You can find a poultry feed pellet mill to reduce your cost, making your own pellet feed with such a pellet making machine. Raw materials like corn powder, wheat, rice husk, wheat straw, vegetables, and so on. Pigs really appreciate variety in their diets. ...
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Welcome Our New Members in April & May 2021
After a large increase in membership in the first months of this year which brought our membership to over 100 organisations (read our article on celebrating our 100th member), we welcome the diverse range of organisations that joined our community in April and May 2021. Read in the following post about their plans within the Cool Farm ...
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Oilseed rape seeding 2019 – widespread drought. Like last year, but different!
Since last year, it has been too dry and hot in large parts of Germany, although at the start of May, when the oilseed rape was flowering, it was cold and frosty, which means that pod-setting suffered. Then there was the heat wave at the end of June, right in the middle of ripening. Yields have often been between 35 and 40 dt/ha, so considerably better than last year and in the range of the ...
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Roberts, Stabenow Announce Committee Passage of Grain Standards Reauthorization
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee passed the bipartisan U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020 by a voice vote. Click here to read the legislation, summary, and section-by-section. “The entire federal grain inspection system needs the certainty, ...
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Crushing Roller Mill by KAHL
High-quality ingredients and an optimal formula are the most important factors in animal feeding. The importance of the feed structure, however, often goes unmentioned, although research and tests carried out by various institutes of the feed industry in recent years have shown that it is an at least equally important factor for successful feeding and animal health. For this reason, the machine ...
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Cover crops can benefit hot, dry soils
The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, intense storms can cause severe soil erosion. Strong winds also strip away valuable topsoil. Usually grown during seasons when primary crops aren’t cultivated, cover crops can include legumes such as pea and hairy vetch, or grassy crops like oats and barley. Cover crops do more than just ...
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Sentera and AB InBev Partner for Sustainability and Grower Empowerment
Sentera today announced a long-term partnership with Anheuser Busch InBev SA/NV (‘AB InBev’), under which Sentera will deliver critical enabling technology for AB InBev’s SmartBarley platform which helps growers improve their productivity and secure the supply chain of the future. SmartBarley will use Sentera’s technology to deliver unique agronomic insights with ...
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European Law Protecting our Common Values: 30th anniversary of the Jean Monnet Programme
On the 16th October we commemorated the 30th Anniversary of the Jean Monnet programme with a conference on “European Law Protecting our Common Values”. After a thorough analysis of the concept of “European values”, successive panels took a closer look at how European law defends these values against both external and internal threats, and addressed the potential conflict ...
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Things You Need To Know About Animal Feed Pellets Ingredients
Animal feed ingredients refer to the feed that takes an animal, plant, microorganism or mineral as raw materials in feed processing. If you are interested in the feed pellet making machine, please read this article. Here are several animal feed ingredients as follow: Feed Pellet Making Machine To Make Corn(maize) Corn is the main raw material of animal feed, generally fit accounted for about 60% ...
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AOAC approves Neogen’s Reveal® Q+ for DON
Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has received Performance TestedSM Method Certification from the AOAC Research Institute for its Reveal® Q+ for Deoxynivalenol (DON) test, which is designed for the rapid quantification of the mold toxin in grains. The AOAC approval (No. 071901) follows the earlier verification of the test’s performance by the USDA’s Federal Grain Inspection ...
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Women In Ag: Changing The Face Of Farming
Based on the 2016 agriculture census from Stats Canada, the proportion of female farmers is increasing even as the total number of farm operators decreases. In fact, women make up 28.7% of the 272,000 farmers in the country. Yet while more women are working hard on the land, sometimes they also have to work equally as hard to dispel public and industry perceptions. For women like Erica Thew of ...
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Agricultural production: drought and other abiotic stresses
The 65% of productive losses in main crops such as corn, wheat or barley are caused by abiotic stresses related to climatic variations (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Buchanan, Gruissem, Jones, American Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000). Source: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Buchanan, Gruissem, Jones, American Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000. Plant ...
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Results of effectiveness tests in State Priekuli Institute of Field Crops Selection in a three-year period (2011 – 2013)
The results of trial “USING OF HUMIC PREPARATIONS FOR PLANT FERTILIZATION IN INTEGRATED AND CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE” Within a framework of cooperation project in a three-year period (2011 – 2013) humic products Green OK – Universal PRO and natural microbiological plant growth promoter Green Cytokinin efficiency in production conditions was tested on potatoes, ...
By GreenOK
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The Role of LEDS in Speed Breeding
Some of the most important crops for feeding the ever-increasing global population include wheat and barley. In order to meet the future demand, scientists have a task of finding ways to improve efficiencies in breeding these and other, similar plant species. Typically, more than 10 years are needed to develop novel cultivars with an advanced agronomic performance. On one hand it is because ...
By Valoya Oy
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WA operation increase efficiency by 20%
Since upgrading to Flexi-Coil’s 7660 air cart and 5500 80 ft air drill last year, grain farmer Rodd King has noticed a 20% increase in efficiency on his 5,500 ha operation. “The efficiency is due to the size of the cart and width of the drill,” says Rodd, who has been using Flexi-Coil since 1996 for his wheat, canola, barley and fava bean operation in Cascade, Western ...
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Protect your field, yield and profits from day one
Following their recent aquisition of the seed treatment Latitude, Certis are looking forward to Cereals and the opportunity to discuss with visitors the issue of take-all and how to protect crops from this devastating disease from day one. “Take-all is an extremely significant and widespread fungal disease that occurs in wheat and barley, with half the UK wheat crops estimated to be ...
By Certis UK
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AUG secures precision agriculture project under AAFC’s AgriInnovation Program
AUG crop growth stage estimation technology with AAFC: Prestigious project under AAFC’s AgriInnovation Program for crop management and disease risk assessment Project to provide a commercial tool to facilitate sustainable agriculture management, pest and disease mitigation and resource planning Project will benefit large and small farming operations and also strengthens Canada’s ...
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Certis Europe and Spiess Urania to Distribute Latitude Products
Mitsui & Co., Ltd has now finalised the agreement to acquire all the assets related to Monsanto’s Latitude business, including trademarks, registrations and manufacturing knowledge. Latitude® products are specialised fungicide seed treatments, used mainly for wheat and barley, which allow growers and seed companies to control Take All disease. No personnel are included in the ...
By Certis UK
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Added bonus for grass weed control
Certis' straight flufenacet herbicides, Sunfire and System 50 have been granted an Extension Authorisation for Minor Use (EAMU) on Rye and Triticale, for the control of black-grass and annual meadow grass. Already widely used in barley and wheat crops, and showing good control of black-grass and other significant grass weeds, this comes as a welcome addition for growers of Rye and Triticale as ...
By Certis UK
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Fertiliser tax of €0.05–0.27 per kilogram calculated for France as incentive to limit its use
Farmers seeking to make the most of high crop prices may increase the area of land farmed with a valuable crop and also apply more fertiliser. These two changes can have negative environmental effects, such as water pollution caused by nitrogen run-off, biodiversity loss due to land-use change, air pollution from fertiliser and the release of greenhouse gases through changes in land use. In the ...
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