Crop Cultivation News
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Revitalising rural areas through innovation
The European Union has launched the project Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) in order to explain what is needed to make good ideas succeed in underpopulated territories or in areas of difficult access. Nowadays, the main challenges for rural areas include the decline and aging of the population, as well as increasing pressure faced by the agricultural and environmental ...
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Valoya Launches a Line of LED Grow Lights for Greenhouses
The BL-Series are sturdy yet lightweight LED bars optimized for greenhouse cultivation of a wide variety of plants. This new series combines the features of Valoya’s recently launched BX-Series, with the chainability feature. Up to 16 luminaires can be daisy chained together with a single mains input making the installation simpler and removing excessive cables. Additionally, the LED driver ...
By Valoya Oy
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Farm to school program highlights local produce
Bananas are being shipped in from other islands for inclusion in public school students’ lunches. w Editor’s note: This is the entirety of an article printed in TGI’s Jan. 17 Wellness section, as much of the original article was unreadable due to formatting errors. LIHUE — Local bananas are being showcased in schools this month through the state Department of ...
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BioSafe Systems Announces the Availability of AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide in Canada
BioSafe Systems announces the availability of AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide across Canada. AXXE is a non-selective herbicide designed for the control or suppression of grass and broadleaf weeds, such as (but not limited to): crabgrass, pigweed, amaranth, carpetweed, and liverworts and for contact spray control or burndown of weeds and grasses for ornamentals, turf, landscapes, interiorscapes, ...
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Young Farmers Get ExtruPro Education
Last week, our extrusion plant at Chettisham where ExtruPro® is manufactured, played host to the March Young Farmers Club. Gary Marsters, Site Manager, took the group on a tour of the site, explaining the various workings of the plant as they progressed from the weighbridge and raw material intakes, along the production line, finishing at the stock pile. He outlined the benefits of adding ...
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Using Biochar as an Ingredient for Compost Making
Where did 2017 go? Now that we are well into the New Year of 2018, this is the year I hope to be making even higher quality compost to spruce up my garden this spring. This article will be dedicated to the use of biochar as a “carbon” source for making the highest quality compost consisting of all the nutrients plants require and teaming them up with beneficial microbes (bacteria ...
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The University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA) Selects Phenome Networks’ plant breeding platform
The Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires announces it has selected Phenom Networks’ plant breeding platform and will implement PhenomeOne, the premier plant breeding software created by Phenome Networks for all its breeding activities. The PhenomeOne software covers all research and development processes conducted by seed companies and research institutes involved with ...
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What sets Peak apart from the Competition?
When buying a gas generator you are making an investment in the workflow of your laboratory, so choosing your generator is an important decision. At Peak Scientific, we pride ourselves on our customer service and that encompasses everything from making sure that our generators are of the highest quality to hiring people who embody our values and always go the extra mile for our customers. Read ...
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San Diego Algae Products Company hits key regulatory milestone
Triton Algae Innovations, a San Diego-based startup company focused on new food and nutritional products derived from algae, has announced that it has achieved Independent Conclusion of GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status for its algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (c. reinhardtii). After a rigorous evaluation of a comprehensive dossier of scientific safety studies and characterization data, ...
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San Diego Algae Products Company Hits Key Regulatory Milestone
Triton Algae Innovations, a San Diego-based startup company focused on new food and nutritional products derived from algae, has announced that it has achieved Independent Conclusion of GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status for its algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (c. reinhardtii). After a rigorous evaluation of a comprehensive dossier of scientific safety studies and characterization data, ...
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Yellow Brick Group acquired a majority stake of SMART Fertilizer
London based Yellow Brick Group have announced today that a fund led by Yellow Brick Group have completed the acquisition of the majority stake of S.G.I Agricultural Technologies Ltd. Following the completion of the acquisition of the majority stake, a new CEO and board of directors was appointed. The appointed CEO is Mrs. Yifat Goldberg. The appointed Chairman of the Board is Mr. Isaac ...
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New table grape varieties on the way
New Canadian fresh grape varieties will expand growers’ offerings and fill up shelf space with flavour profiles that meet market demand. The Consumer Insights team at Vineland is working to ensure the new varieties are exactly what consumers are looking for. In partnership with the Ontario Fresh Grape Growers, Vineland hosted a grower/ retailer open house to showcase new scouted varieties ...
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EuroTier 2018
Digitisation is also increasingly gaining ground in agriculture in parallel with automation. One company at the leading edge of development in these fields and as rich in innovation as it is in tradition is Prüllage Systeme of Holdorf in Lower Saxony. The smart farming systems developed by Prüllage in recent years have already made history in the world of "Agriculture 4.0 . Farm ...
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Harvester in the world
“Harvester in the world”is the title of the precious volume that Capello sponsored and realized after more than four years of study and research. During the 37th National Agricultural Fair in Savigliano, the book was presented to the public in early 2018. Harvester in the world, the book The book “ harvester in the world” has a uncontested protagonist of the harvester, ...
By Capello Srl
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More strawberry plants per m2 with new 18-hole tray
Beekenkamp has developed a new 18-hole breeding tray for the strawberry breeder. In addition to the success of our existing 18-hole strawberry tray Model 7313 and 7314, we are now introducing a redesigned, narrow version, which is furthermore available in three planting heights. 12% more plant production in the same area This narrow strawberry tray (175 mm) makes it possible to grow more ...
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Creating Better Soybeans
In rows of petri dishes, soybean roots bathe in fluorescent light, an unremarkable site unless you work in the laboratory where they grow. The simplicity of the setup belies the complexity of the research that went into creating the roots. For decades, the genes of the seeds that produced these roots have been tinkered with to create a plant that resists a common and highly destructive soybean ...
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IFA Represents the Fertilizer Industry at the UN’s Highest-Level Decision-Making Meeting on the Environment
Held from December 4 - 6, the assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment, bringing together over 2,000 heads of state, ministers, business leaders, UN officials and civil society representatives to discuss how to tackle pollution. IFA was proud to be a founding member of the Governing Consortium of the UN Global Science-Policy-Business Forum on the ...
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2018 Country Clipper XLT and Challenger Zero Turn Mowers
COUNTRY CLIPPER, a leading brand of premium zero turn mowers, is proud to announce the introduction of the XLT series and redesign of the CHALLENGER series. The XLT is designed for the large homeowner, providing a commercial quality machine and unique features at a competitive price. Features include: Fabricated 48, 54 and 60 inch decks Heavy Duty One Piece Steel Frame Powerful ...
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ISO-9001 recertification for Eijkelkamp Soil & Water
After the annual external audit by Kiwa, Eijkelkamp Soil & Water is again ISO-9001:2008 certified. The auditor also noted that Eijkelkamp employees are very involved and gave a compliment to the entire organization for the way the company is implementing the new NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2015. The new NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2015 is scheduled to be implemented by June 2018 Eijkelkamp Soil & Water received ...
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