Grain Management News
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Grão Direto and Bayer collaborate to expand the reach and impact of sustainable practices in grain trading
Grão Direto, the largest digital platform for grain trading in Latin America, developed in collaboration with Bayer the introduction of the “Sustainable Practices Badge” on its digital marketplace. The badge indicates which farmers on the platform are utilizing agronomic practices that are more beneficial to the environment. The initiative allows the startup to provide even ...
By Bayer AG
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Stored Grains: CO₂ Monitoring for the Early Detection of Spoilage
In a recent article published by Process Industry Informer, it was highlighted that over 50% of stored grains are lost after harvesting due to spoilage caused by mould or insect infestation, and amounts to roughly $1 trillion per year in losses. However, these major economic losses can be combatted by the early detection of spoilage with gas sensors for CO2 measurement. Stored grains are often ...
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Mathews Company announces the launch of M-C Trax remote control
Mathews Company is excited to announce that remote control functionality is now available on the popular M-C Trax dryer remote monitoring system. Introduced in 2011, M-C Trax is a mobile app that has revolutionized the way users manage their grain drying operation. Building off the same innovative approach that led to the launch of the original system over 7 years ago, M-C Trax will now give ...
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Data Highlight: Arab Grain Imports Rising Rapidly
The Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa make up only 5 percent of the world’s population, yet they take in more than 20 percent of the world’s grain exports. Imports to the region have jumped from 30 million tons of grain in 1990 to nearly 70 million tons in 2011. Now imported grain accounts for nearly 60 percent of regional grain consumption. With water scarce, ...
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Eriez Magnetics - PR1013 Eriez Europe support foreign language students
With Europe consisting of many different countries, with different cultures and languages, it is important that Eriez can communicate with them in the best possible way. Subsequently, the personnel at Eriez Europe use a variety of different languages in their working day. This gives Eriez an advantage as customers respond very positively when communicating in their native tongue, if not direct ...
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A burning issue in winter wheat production
Some Pacific Northwest winter wheat producers burn fields to remove straw left after harvest before reseeding. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have shown that with careful management, this practice does not result in any more soil erosion than other postharvest practices. Continuous winter wheat cropping systems are used in some parts of the Pacific Northwest ...
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GRDC to advise farmers on overcoming subsoil constraints
Workshops are being held in northern New South Wales and Queensland in July and August to help advisors and grain growers identify and manage the impact of subsoil constraints. These include sodicity, salinity, alkalinity, acidity, subsoil nutrient deficiencies and toxicities and soil compaction, and cost growers around $80/ha in forgone income across the region. The workshops have been ...
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