Beet Farming Articles
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Project - Reims France
Plant’s power: 1400 kW/h Daily Feeding: Barley silage; sugar beet pulp; grain; corn silage; potatoes peelings; mustard skin Goal: Reduce the viscosity to increase the concentration of Dry Matter from 12% to 17% and thus increase the production of gas, keeping the same digester’s volumes Read more To see video, please click ...
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Project - Düsseldorf Germany
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily feeding: Horse manure, Chicken manure with straw, sugar beets Goal: reduce the use of sugar beets and integrate the daily feeding with more horse manure To see video, please click ...
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Message from Managing Director - It is Time to Make New History
The year 2021 has begun. On a personal level, this also meant some kind of return to my own roots and back to the agricultural sector. Actually, I had also missed it. I have grown up on a farm, graduated as an Agrologist and networked in the agricultural sector, so this feels like coming home. Before I came to Tume, I was the Managing Director of subcontracting company, which was producing ...
By Tume-Agri Oy
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Proven technology + reliable after sales service = satisfied customer! - Case Study
Location: Hammel (Denmark) Capacity:1335 Nm³/h biomethane Input materials:Grass silage, sugar beet, straw, turkey litter and glycerine Special features:Our customer is Denmark’s largest land-owner, with over 10,000 hectares to its name. Apart from our efficient EnviThan technology, we also impressed the client as a solid partner with a portfolio of successful international ...
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New name, same expertise
In the last 10-15 years we have successfully developed and commercialized various innovative functional ingredients based on the side streams and crops within Cosun. We aim to continue this 100% natural trend into the future. Last year Cosun changed its strategy in which plants have a leading role. In line with this we also reshaped our strategy and identity, which led to a new name: Cosun ...
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Canada: fighting Cercospora in sugar beets - Case Study
Case Study Summary Application Decision Support System to fight Cercospora Leafspot in sugar beets Location Michigan and Ontario, Canada Products deployed A850 Telemetry Gateway (several) A753 addWAVE UHF A723 addIT UHF SEN-R Temperature and rel. humidity sensor RG Rain Gauge WET Leafwetness sensor Participating Organizations Michigan Sugar Corporation Parameters recorded Air temperature and ...
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100% geese reduction after placing the Agrilaser Autonomic in the farm in Achthuizen and Oude-Tonge - Case Study
Thousands upon thousands of geese were terrorizing the fields of NIVU at Goeree-Overflakkee. The Installation of two Agrilaser Autonomic lasers means an end to the plague. The Agrilaser Autonomic at farmer NIVU Situation before Farmer NIVU in Achthuizen and Oude-Tonge owns over 400 hectares of agricultural land adjacent to water. Therefore, thousands of geese are a daily threat to both the ...
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Sabre Tine Case Study
Ben Atkinson, J. E. Atkinson & Son, Lincolnshire 'The Tillso Sabre range of subsoiler legs are intelligently designed and highly engineered to create a perfectly structured subsoil without unnecessarily disturbing the surface. Surely a situation we are all trying to achieve. In the past we all too easily destroyed the benefits of subsoiling with subsequent operations trying to produce a ...
By Tillso
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How to guarantee optimal vegetable growing - a precision seed drill
Precise seeding is the key to production of high-quality crops. MAX PNEUMATIC seed drills are modern machines for seeding of various vegetable species, being differently formed and sized. As a result, it successfully sows almost all kinds of seeds, such as: carrots, parsley, cabbage, radish, onion, beetroot, etc. Moreover, it has been designed to meet the farmers needs and vegetable market ...
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How to make optimal condition for growing vegetables
The competition between vegetable producers, high production costs, expensive seeds and many other factors, mean that vegetable producers want to provide optimal conditions for their cropping. They want to get the best product that will meet the high customer’s needs. In addition to investing in seeds, fertilizers and plant protection products, you need the suitable equipment. This will ...
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USDA Eyes Bioengineered Food Standard - Case study
On May 4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) proposed a rule to establish the first ever National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) mandated by Congress in 2016. This column discusses the proposal, what it intends to achieve, and its implications. Background On July 29, 2016, Congress enacted legislation amending the Agricultural ...
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Round baling of sugar beet pulp - Case study
This is a case study of how the Flexus heavy duty round baling system is implemented at the sugar beet processing facility in Aarberg, Switzerland. Schweizer Zucker AG is baling around 30.000 tons of sugar beet pulp during the period of october to the end of the year. To meet demands and cover a wider range of usage, some of the beet pulp is baled during night time when normal transport and ...
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Beef Farmer Spring 2017 `Trace elements are key to growth rates`
Iodine has a direct impact on growth rates as it is incorporated into the thyroid hormones which control metabolism, promoting efficient live weight gain. Annie Williams, Animal Scientist with Agrimin says that many beef units fall short on achieving optimum growth rates because animals do not receive adequate levels of trace elements at grass. She says that with increased feed costs, many ...
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Evaluation of yield, quality and crop water stress index of sugar beet under different irrigation regimes
This study was carried out to evaluate the use of the crop water stress index (CWSI) for irrigation scheduling of sugar beet for two years under the semi arid climate of Iran. Statistical relationships between CWSI and yield, quality parameters and irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) were investigated. Irrigations were scheduled based on 100 (I100), 85 (I85), 70 (I50) and 0% (I0) of plant ...
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A big slug year ahead?
In addition to the weather, stubble clean-ups and green bridge carry-over are the two other major contributors, which means that high slug pellet usage on farms across the UK is likely this year, explains Justin Smith agronomist for Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd. “I work with farmers in the East Sussex and Kent areas, most of whom farm in vulnerable water catchment areas and are looking for ...
By Certis UK
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Sugar Beet Pulp - Case Study
Baling of Beet Pulp Sugar beet pulp is a vegetable residue from the production of sugar. The material has a high nutritional value and is a popular feed supplement for livestock. Dairy farmers consider beet pulp to be a highly palatable and absorptive feedstock that helps stimulate milk production. However, due to the high moisture content, fresh beet pulp has a very short shelf-life. This ...
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Urban farming is booming, but what does it really yield?
City-based agriculture produces 15 to 20 percent of food globally. In the U.S., its benefits go far beyond nutrition. This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit investigative news organization. Midway through spring, the nearly bare planting beds of Carolyn Leadley’s Rising Pheasant Farms, in the Poletown neighborhood of ...
By Ensia
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Plan Ahead For the Beet Harvest – Get Your Molasses Tanks in Place
Although the UK’s farmers will not be harvesting their beet crops until around December onwards, it’s time to start planning ahead when it comes to storing molasses, a by-product of this harvest. Proven time and time again to be one of the best bases for a multitude of animal feeds, molasses should be stored correctly in order for the consistency and nutritional content to be ...
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Record Crops Predicted – Storing Chemicals in Suitable Vertical Storage Tanks
The US is celebrating bumper crops this year, according to Farming UK. The publication states that the record-breaking corn harvest this year surpassed expectations of the US Department of Agriculture and it seems that because of the warm summer this year, that the UK could be following in its footsteps. Farming UK also reports on a trial that examines the good health of sugar beet crops. With ...
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Rake In Greater Capacity And Higher Hay Quality
It’s been said that the steel-toothed dump rake was first introduced in the 1860s. Of course, the process back then was to rake hay into piles, which were then pitched onto a wagon for transport to a haystack or the barn loft. To make windrows for the balers that came later, the operator simply spaced the “dumps” equally so they lined up in the field. The irony is that until ...
By Vermeer
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