Fertilizer Equipment News
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Workshop Offers Insight into Aquaculture
Ohio needs more fish farmers, and researchers at the Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development are working to meet that need. The center will offer a daylong introductory workshop on aquaculture and aquaponics Oct. 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop, which will be held at The Ohio State University South Centers, 1864 Shyville Road in Piketon, is designed to offer participants ...
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Get Feet Wet in Aquaponics at FSR
Two talks at the Sept. 20-22 Farm Science Review will dive into aquaponics. “There’s growing interest in aquaponics in the Midwest,” said Matthew Smith, an aquaculture specialist with The Ohio State University who will give the talks. “People like the idea of the marriage between fish and plants.” The Review is an annual agricultural trade show in London, about 25 ...
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Intensive grassland farming could have deep effects: sequestering significantly less soil carbon
Huge amounts of soil carbon have been discovered up to 1 metre below grassland in a recent UK study. Yet most carbon inventories do not assess soil deeper than 30 cm. Furthermore, this research suggests that intensive management of grassland, involving high rates of fertiliser use and livestock grazing, may deplete carbon at these depths. Globally, soil contains more carbon than all the ...
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Application-based solutions: safe production of fertilizers with leser safety relief valves
In order to harvest the maximum amount possible from the limited available crop land, fertilizer is needed. Producing fertilizers is a complex process, where air, hydrocarbons and water are processed to create ammonia and then further to urea – the core product of fertilizer plants. Read further for the special requirements of this industry for safety relief valves and the application-based ...
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Argus FMB East Europe Fertilizer 2016: Early Bird Discount Ends 8 April
Argus FMB East Europe Fertilizer 2016 is taking place on 15-17 June, offers you the chance to join the only conference focused on fertilizer trade in East Europe. Register before 8 April and save €150. This conference brings together fertilizer manufacturers and distributors from all over this important region with global raw material and added value ingredient producers. So if you want to ...
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Efficiency for professionals
“Contribute to increase the efficiency of professionals in potato, vegetable and irrigation business by integral and innovative solutions.” That is our Vision. From words to deeds, we have developed in close cooperation with our suppliers possibilities to combine different operations during potato planting, so it can be done in 1 single pass. This has the following benefits: Less ...
By APH Group
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Seeds of doubt over iron boost for algae
One keenly-argued possible way of moderating the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may not work, scientists have concluded. They say there is evidence that seeding the oceans with iron so that the algae that live there will multiply and devour more CO2 − thus preventing it reaching the atmosphere and intensifying the human contribution to global warming – is not as ...
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A Focus on Crop Yields – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks To Lower Overheads
Aberdeen Press and Journal discuss this week how arable farmers can cut costs and boost yields. To leverage a return on investment, growers must of course minimise the cost per tonne produced and one such way of doing this is to maximise crop yield. But obviously, according to BASF’s Scottish agronomy manager, Dudley Kitching, there is no ‘silver bullet’ to achieve increased ...
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Falling Fuel and Fertiliser Prices – Bulk Buying Brings Additional Savings
As fuel and fertiliser prices ease somewhat, not everyone working in this sector benefited. Agricultural co-operatives are one such sector that suffered falls in turnover as a result, despite enjoying a record number of invoices. This was the case for Fram Farmers, as reported in East Anglian Daily Times. However, independent farmers and buying groups are sure to receive the falls positively and ...
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EPA publishes Farmworker Protection Standard Final Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that it will issue in the Federal Register on November 2, 2015, the final rule revising the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Worker Protection Standard (WPS). EPA previously announced these revisions on September 28, 2015, and stated that it would issue the final rule in the Federal Register within 60 days. ...
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Second Sino - EU Potato workshop planned for 2016
From 22 - 24 July, 2015, a first workshop on sustainable potato production and processing in China was held. The workshop was organized by Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Science (HAAS), Strategic Alliance for Industrial Technology Innovation of Potato (SAITIP) and Wageningen UR, with support from various parties. It was decided that a second workshop will be held during 2016 in Zhangjiakou ...
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CHP Greenhouses Make Growing Even Greener
Bearing little resemblance to a typical farm, modern large greenhouses are, in reality, complex, high-tech factories that produce food and other crops. A natural gas Cat® or MWM™ generator set produces electrical power for the greenhouse needs, and any excess electricity can be sold to the utility company and fed back to the grid. The extra heat from the engine is collected to keep the ...
By Caterpillar
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Farmers Prefer Liquid Fertilizer – Enduramaxx Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
Farmers have been demonstrating a preference for liquid fertiliser, according to Farming UK. Many are finding it to be more efficient, something that has led to a significant increase in investment at BFS Fertiliser Services, the award-winning UK leaders in crop nutrition. The company has recently installed seven new liquid fertiliser storage tanks at the BFS Fertilisers’ production ...
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Silage Making and Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
It’s silage-making time across many of the UK’s farms and the weather is holding to get silage-making done, according to Wiltshire Times. With most days last week having been dry, Thursday did bring rain, but the timing was just right, as in many cases, first-cut silage was completely dry. The first process in silage making is cutting the crop, after which it needs to be left to wilt ...
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Rice Farmers in China use Less Fertilizer, Increase Yield
“Rice farmers can decrease their nitrogen fertilizer and pesticide use by around 20%, and increase their yield by 10% by using the ‘three controls technology’ (3CT),” says Dr. Xuhua Zhong, crop physiologist at the Rice Research Institute of the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GDRRI). The meaning of “three controls” is controlling the amount of ...
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Manure and sewage can provide crops with more phosphorus than chemical fertilisers
Phosphorus in sewage and manure could be more available to crops than previously thought, suggests new research. The study found that some forms of sewage and manure treatment provided plants with more phosphorus than conventional inorganic fertilisers. Over the past 50 years, chemical fertilisers containing inorganic phosphorus have boosted crop yields and food production across the globe. ...
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Satellite Imagery and Liquid Fertiliser Tanks For Increased Yields
Productivity in farming is of course a major area of focus, and according to the Financial Times, one UK farmer is relying on satellite imagery to help with fertiliser administration. Looking at images of his Hampshire farm, the darker blue pools indicate where there needs to be more fertiliser used, whilst the yellow areas indicate where less fertiliser is required. As a result, yields on the ...
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Fertiliser Storage Tanks and the Latest ADAS Farming Report
The latest arable crop report from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS) was recently published, revealing that winter drilled crops were in good condition at the end of March. It also reveals that winter wheat crops were in good condition at the end of the month with typical crops at the end of late tillering stage. The control of black-grass and broadleaved weeds was good, ...
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Settlements Emphasize that Pesticides Need to be Labeled Correctly, Protecting Public and Environment from Misbranded Products
EPA has reached three settlements with companies that produce and/or market pesticides, resolving EPA allegations that the companies or their agents distributed and sold pesticide products which lacked required labels or were missing critical information required by the EPA-approved labels, in violation of the federal law regulating pesticide use in the United States (the Federal Insecticide, ...
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Fertiliser Prices – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
We hear mixed reports of fertiliser prices as of late, as Farming Life reports that fertilizer prices are set to stay pretty much the same. According to Yara business manager for Ireland, Nicholas Morrison, there is not a real difference between fertiliser prices year on year and in value terms, both CAN and NPK products are the same now as they were twelve months ago. However, referring to ...
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