farm management Articles
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Optimize Your Operation Beyond Yields
Maximize your pre-harvest window, prep strategically for harvest with farm management software As a farmer, you oversee several things at once so it can be tough to decide which hat to wear and when. At any given time, you’re executing crop management tasks, including spraying or scouting, monitoring inputs and equipment needs across all those acres, scheduling who’s doing what and ...
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7 Key Benefits of Farm Management Software
Farmers have been growing food for generations without using farm management software. But in today’s fast-paced and highly competitive food production landscape, farm management software, or FMS, is critical to success.Why Use Farm Management Software? A farm management software program implemented in an agricultural operation leads to reduced expenses, increased yields, better yield quality, ...
By AGRIVI
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Understand Crop Nutrients to Optimize Farm Management
Crop Nutrient Uptake and Removal Farming today is an increasingly complex business. However, when you break down the simplest function of agriculture, it’s all about nourishment. With the global population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by mid-century, nourishing your soil to meet this demand is increasingly essential to what you do. How often does crop nutrient uptake and removal ...
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Regulating fertilizer applications in agriculture for healthier crops & environment
Farm Fertilizer - A Double-Edged Sword The excessive use of fertilizers is one of the main causes of the environmental impact of industrial agriculture. The notion that more is better has caused more harm than good to farming, as well as the environment. Therefore, using the right amount of fertilizers is considered an important part of farm management. To this end, there has been a lot of ...
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries like Algeria, where overfishing ...
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
Fish Waste Disposal In Desert Farming When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries ...
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Fuel your productivity and never run empty
View and track tank levels so you always know what you’ve got on-hand Farm machinery has changed a lot since the first gas-powered tractor rolled into a prairie farm yard about a century ago. But some things resist change. Most farm machinery still runs on fuel and farmers still fret about running out of it. Today, however, as with just about everything else, technology can help. The TELUS ...
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Semios Receives US EPA Approval for 3 New Pheromones To Target the Most Destructive Pests in the Apple & Pear Industry
Vancouver, BC, November 24, 2014 – Semios, provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has been given US EPA approval for three aerosol pheromone products that disrupt the mating of codling moth and oriental fruit moth. “Our new formula performs extremely well at lower temperatures, emitting a drier mist that disperses quickly across an ...
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Possibilities for Future EC Environmental Policy on Plant Protection Products
Abstract This report presents the results of a study to examine and evaluate the economic, environmental and social benefits of plant protection products (PPPs) in agriculture with the main emphasis on the economic aspects. The approach followed was to carry out four case studies - each covering a single crop in a specific region of major production-comparing standard, integrated and organic ...
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Green technologies and business practices: a study on rural microenterprises in PURA scheme villages of Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, India
This paper present the study that was carried out in the PURA scheme villages of Thanjavur District, India. The investigation was to determine the impact of education on green technologies and business practice among the villagers, who deals with micro–enterprises. The data were collected from PURA villages that consist of seven clusters. Each cluster has been allocated an activity that yield ...
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Clock House Farm: optimising growing conditions and irrigation efficiency in high volume soft fruit production - Case Study
Clock House farm nestles in the rolling hills of Kent a few miles south of Maidstone in the UK. The expansive 250 acre farm grows a variety of fruit, including strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. Notable innovators in horticulture, Clock House Farm were one of the first commercial growers to adopt table-top production of strawberries in the late 1990s. Since 2008 they have been using ...
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How a Grower Used Granular to Uncover an 11% Profit Difference in Two Varieties
Learn how Granular helped a real farm discover that their variety choice was costing them $800 per acre The most effective farm organizations use data to organize their production plans and make financially-driven decisions. There are common variables to consider when making these decisions that often include land costs, seed variety, fertilizers, and chemicals. Does your data help you make ...
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Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought
During drought or dry conditions, salinity and pH levels can change quickly in the soil. While the forecast shouldn’t entirely dictate how you manage your farm, understanding and performing the best farming practices when adding seed-placed nutrients can help save your yields when the rain fails to ...
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Ammonia Reduction & Reduced Beetle Larvae with MICROBE-LIFT® Technology in Poultry Composting in Honduras - Farm Waste Management
Lazarus & Lazarus, a technology-based construction firm in Honduras, contacted a distributor of Ecological Laboratories to explore technology to improve their poultry litter processing. Ecological Laboratories’ technologists devised a test protocol using MICROBE-LIFT® technology conducted at an experimental poultry farm. This farm is utilized to evaluate new technology to optimize ...
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Revolutionizing Agriculture with Intelligent Soil Sensors
Unlocking Data-Driven Insights for Sustainable and Efficient Farming For centuries, agriculture has relied on tradition and intuition, with farmers often relying on their experience and gut feeling to make decisions about their land. However, the 21st century has ushered in a new era in agriculture, one driven by data and innovation. At the forefront of this revolution are intelligent soil ...
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Assessing the cost, effectiveness and acceptability of best management farming practices: a pluri-disciplinary approach
The AgriBMPWater project has been imagined and built in a pluri-disciplinary approach and framework, with the study of the object 'BMPs' using several disciplines at the same time (hydrology, economy, sociology, geography and agronomy). The knowledge of the object in each discipline is deepened by a fertile multi-field contribution: borders of disciplines have been broken down, allowing ...
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Farming Innovation: From Ammonia to AgTech Software
Just over a century ago, the Haber-Bosch process was invented in Germany, enabling the scalable production of copious amounts of ammonia for the very first time. This 1910 Eureka! moment meant farmers could fertilize their crops unlike ever before, growing food on a massive scale. So massive, in fact, a population explosion ensued – humankind went from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion in ...
By Vistex Inc
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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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It is vital to reinvigorate organic farming research
Organic farming can deliver food sustainably, but only with compelling science to boost its use, argues Ged Buffee. With increased yields and ecological stability becoming critical concerns for agricultural development, there's hope that organic farming can anchor agro-ecological sustainability. The stakes for organic agriculture have never been higher, yet the convincing research that could ...
By SciDev.Net
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The Importance of Scales in the Agricultural & Farming Industry
Weighing scales are essential and necessary equipment required for a wide range of applications. Whether intended for personal, industrial or commercial use, they serve one important function – providing accurate weight measurements for varied loads. In the agricultural sector, scales are indispensable tools and without them, it would be almost impossible to manage farms or carry out trade! ...
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