Crop Cultivation News

Endocrine effects and altered reproductive and developmental parameters were observed in both male and female rats, when exposed at a dose level that has been considered safe for humans. The findings of the study, which takes into account exposure from the in ...

Apr. 19, 2019

By Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

If a machine could save you more than $300,000 in two years, would it be worth purchasing? Probably. With savings like that, you could likely convince your CFO to make the investment. Yet ethanol producers often lose out on savings of this magnitude because they overlook the lifetime cost of ownership of equipment they purchase, focusing instead on sticker price. While watching purchase price ...

Apr. 18, 2019

By Biomass Engineering & Equipment (BE&E)

When a professional football club asks you how you produced such a first class finish to a football pitch – you’ve got to be doing something right! Pride of workmanship is one of the key values of landscape contractors, H & I Kelly Landscape, based out of Poole, Dorset. It’s totally manned by a family team led by Hugh Kelly who started the business back in 1976, Irena, ...

Apr. 17, 2019

By Major Equipment

Australia's 1,000km Mount Isa-Townsville rail line is expected to reopen on 29 April, which will restore the haulage of base metal concentrates and fertilizers that have been affected since early February when heavy rain caused flooding along the rail route and derailed a train carrying metal concentrates. Final works to be completed over the next week include ballast train drops and resurfacing, ...

Apr. 17, 2019

By Argus Media Ltd.

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Apr. 17, 2019

By Major Equipment

As spring arrives in Geneva, forests are coming back to life and animals are enjoying the first warm days, we hear from Julian Rad, a runner up in our 2018 ‘Experience Forests, Experience PEFC’ photo contest. Julian tells us about his photo ‘Sniffling’ and why forests and wild animals are his favourite photo motives. ...

Apr. 17, 2019

By PEFC International

THE Welsh lumpfish farmer, Ocean Matters, has been bought by Mowi Scotland, effective from April 15, the company confirmed today. The facility, in Penmon, Anglesey, North Wales, has the capacity to produce two million of the cleaner fish, which it has been supplying to the salmon farming industry in Scotland to control sea lice. ...

Apr. 16, 2019

By FISHupdate

BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB: BLGO), developer of sustainable products and technologies and a full-service environmental engineering company, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Odor-No-More, Inc. had entered into a five-year white label distribution agreement to supply odor and VOC control products to the cannabis ...

Apr. 14, 2019

By Biolargo, Inc.

The outcome of trade disputes between China and the US and Canada will be a key determinant of Ukrainian export flows in the coming months and years, delegates heard at the Black Sea Grain conference in Kiev. Negotiations between US and Chinese trade officials could draw to a close at the end of this month. Whatever the outcome, the end of the process is likely to dictate the direction of global ...

Apr. 14, 2019

By Argus Media Ltd.

GRIEG Seafood has outlined the measures it is taking to overcome some of the biological problems facing its Shetland operations. ...

Apr. 14, 2019

By FISHupdate

The Court of Appeal in Lyon has ruled to hold Monsanto legally accountable for severely harming the health of Paul François, a grain farmer from France’s Charente region. Health actors are welcoming this historic win, a legal precedent in France, as a victory for all victims of pesticides [1]. Paul François has been seeking ...

Apr. 10, 2019

By Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

IDEN BIOTECHNOLOGY, AMONG THE INNOVATIVE SMEs BENEFICIARY OF H2020-SUPERBIO’s PROJECT SERVICES SuperBIO is an innovation project with 10 partners from 6 European countries funded by the European Commission’s programme Horizon 2020 (H2020). ...

Apr. 8, 2019

By Iden Biotechnology

On April 14-16, 2019 the biennial CROP Innovation & Business conference will take place in Amsterdam. During CROP Innovation & Business 2019 the most influential trends that will affect crop innovation and value chain strategies will be addressed including indoor farming, whole genome ...

Apr. 8, 2019

By Iden Biotechnology

Brussels/Frankfurt am Main, 27 March 2019 – The markets for agricultural equipment developed very differently in 2018. The market for soil tillage equipment in particular showed a clearly positive development. Sales of fertilizer spreaders and seed drills also increased compared with 2017. However, for crop protection equipment and precision drills, the European market was weaker than in ...

Mar. 26, 2019

By CEMA aisbl - European Agricultural Machinery

As part of our popular event series, SFA is hosting a final spring Soil Health Cafe Chat from 3 to 6 p.m. Mon., April 1, at Amboy Cottage Cafe, 100 E Main St, Amboy. ...

Mar. 26, 2019

By Sustainable Farming Association

On 21 st – 23 rd March 2018, SICIT 2000 attendedthe next 16 th edition of New AG International,which took place in Nairobi (Kenya).SICIT participateed with a speech of Dr. FabioAgnolon, SICIT agro-product manager entitled“aminoacids & peptides of animal origin as acase of plant biostimulants compliant with thecircular economy concept”.SICIT 2000 has always been a leader for ...

Mar. 21, 2019

By SICIT 2000 S.p.A

From March 24 to 26, the 3rd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary. International researchers will present their works focusing on the impact of climate change on crop production and propose solutions to maintain and increase crop productivity in this new ...

Mar. 17, 2019

By TIMAC Agro Italia

Today, March 14, 2019, The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) hosts the 46th anniversary of National Agriculture Day. This year’s theme is “Agriculture: Food for Life.” Cornell Pump’s first pumps were irrigation pumps used in Oregon’s fertile Willamette ...

Mar. 13, 2019

By Cornell Pump Company

SFA East Central Chapter is hosting a workshop featuring Zachary Paige, “Sustainable Vegetable Seed Production for Farmers, from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., March 23, at the community room in Coborn’s, 209 6th Ave NE, Isanti. ...

Mar. 12, 2019

By Sustainable Farming Association

THE Faroese fish farmer Bakkafrost has outlined two important developments in its annual sustainability and financial reports, published yesterday. First, there will be a significant increase in the number, and size, of smolts released this year. About 12.6 million smolts were released during 2018 and 9.9 million in 2017. The company now plans to raise that figure to more than 13.5 million in ...

Mar. 12, 2019

By FISHupdate