Potato Farming News
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First-of-its-kind haulm topper introduced for harvest ’24
Grimme UK is to introduce a new German-made three-bed folding haulm topper in time for 2024’s potato harvest. The Toppa 600 is the first-ever folding haulm topper to be built in Germany with dual two-row toppers at the rear and a two-row topper at the front, to span six rows in total. Designed for the UK’s 90cm rows, the Toppa 600 offers hydraulic depth control, a floating frame so ...
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Countries commit USD 890 million to accelerate agricultural innovation and address climate and food crises
CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, has secured more than USD 890 million to accelerate progress against the ongoing global food and climate crises. With this funding, CGIAR will expand its work supporting smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries to shape more resilient, sustainable, and equitable food systems, reduce emissions from ...
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Lifeasible Helps Digg into Plant Immunity Knowledge for Botany Research
Lifeasible, an experienced biotechnology company focused on all aspects of Plant Immunity Services, now supports its customers' research with services that cover plant adversity resistance, plant pest resistance, plant pathology, plant viruses, plant antibiotics, and identification & analysis of plant disease resistance. There are two main types of infestation that plants suffer, one being ...
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New order from Japan
After we attend the Japanese exhibition AGRI world last month our Japanese agent put a new order to LeBio. They ordered one pallet of 32 mesh light adjusting magenta net to let their Japanese customer try our net. LeBio ship it urgently to Japan. Our Taiwanese customer in Meinong , Kaohsiung using our 32 mesh light adjusting magenta net for their greenhouse. They only use the net to cover the ...
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Farm vlogger Jilles Boer about the Row-FiX
Last season, farm vlogger Jilles Boer used the Row-FiX 3000 (4x75cm) to rid the potato ridges and control weeds. See here the youtube videos of June 2021: Aanaarden van verregende aardappelruggen: Aanaarden van aardappelruggen met hoog loof: ...
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Industrial Livestock Feed Pellet Mill Production Machine On Sale
Industrial feed pellet mill has a wide cylindrical shape die and is mounted vertically. This big industrial feed pellet mill consists of feeding device, hardening and tempering device, conditioner device, press chamber transmission system, overload protection and electric control system. This ring die type industrial pellet mill is widely adopted in most large scale feed pellet production, like ...
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Shincci Event--Bean dregs low-temperature drying project in Vitasoy (Wuhan) Company Limited
The winter weather in Wuhan had become more cold and humid, and the temperature was below 10°C for several consecutive days. On 24th Nov., at the site of the bean dregs treatment project, the winding up of installation work is being carried out by shincci technical engineers in an orderly manner according to the designed capacity. Vitasoy is a well-known beverage brand in Hong Kong. The ...
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Working Group improves the Cool Farm Tool for Dutch users
In the beginning of 2020, a group of Cool Farm Alliance members from the Netherlands including arable crop producers, trade organizations and BO Akkerbouw joined their forces to create a Dutch working group with the main goal to improve the user experience in the Cool Farm Tool for Dutch users. Despite the year being marked by Covid-19, 7-8 representatives managed to meet in several virtual ...
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New equipment has its place across two operations
Armed with a Field Crops Technology degree from NC State University, the fifth generation farmer came home after college, and several months later, had an opportunity to start a vegetable farming venture with his life-long friend, Walker Shelton. “This year, Walker and I grew 160 acres of cucumbers and 15 acres of specialty peppers that are drip irrigated thanks to a great water supply from ...
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Tech that turns CO2 into animal feed gets funding boost
Nine innovative projects that apply big data, AI and robotics to UK farming will help establish a more efficient system of food production. Innovative agri-tech projects across the UK, including fruit picking robots and autonomous crop systems, to benefit from £24 million government investment leading project in Nottingham that recycles carbon dioxide from Drax power station into ...
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Get Growing this Summer
Even mid-way through June, it’s not too late to start growing some of your own food this season. Growing a garden in your yard, your windowsill, or at any other scale can be empowering. And it doesn’t have to be an overwhelming venture! Episode 3 of Dirt Rich is a bite-sized listen to help get you started in a manageable, enjoyable way. Kent Solberg shares his top tips for starting a ...
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Perfect Weather Comes at Right Time for Planting, Spirits
If you’re like me, then you’re overwhelmed with all of the COVID-19 articles, webinars, emails and other things being constantly pumped into your inbox. I thought it’d be nice to take a break and reflect on some things that feel a little more normal. In my part of the state, south central Minnesota, we had some of the most perfect planting weather I can remember. Sunny skies, ...
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bio-plastic, PLA
Bioplastics are an alternative to thermoplastic materials from the fossil industry. Composed of vegetable carbon (obtained by processing corn starch, potato), bioplastics are biodegradable. These materials can be composted. These bioplastics are an alternative to ABS or Polycarbonate; they have the same mechanical properties (service life, hardness). The drawback is the limited heat resistance of ...
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Lumex Instruments presents qPCR microchips for rapid detection of potato pathogens in Charlottetown
Lumex Instruments invites you to International Potato Technology Expo on February 21-22 to demonstrate a robust, cost-effective, and ready-to-use diagnostic tool for potato pathogens detection. At the expo, we will present microchip based real time PCR analyzer AriaDNA. This instrument may prove beneficial to growers, field-men, extension personnel, pathogen testing labs, and seed potato storage ...
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How To Make Poultry Feed Pellet We Have Animal Feed Mill On Sale
Animal feed pellet is use mixed feed or single feed (forage, cake, etc.) into granular feed by animal feed mill. It's usually cylindrical, there are different sizes depending on the type of feeding poultry. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional animal feed mill manufacturer. How To Make Feed Pellets Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery provides a full set of animal feed production line, the ...
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BioConsortia moves multiple products into registration phase
BioConsortia, a developer of microbial solutions for plant trait enhancement and yield improvement, has moved multiple new products into the registration phase. BioConsortia has a R&D platform for the discovery of beneficial microbes and a development model to produce agricultural products with superior efficacy and higher consistency in three areas of research: Biopesticides: a pipeline ...
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Animal Feed Mill To Make Animal Feed Pellets
Animal feed pellet is use mixed feed or single feed into granular feed through animal feed mill. It's cylindrical, there are different sizes depending on the type of feeding poultry. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional animal feed mill manufacturer, this aritcle will introduce how to make poultry feed pellet in detail. How To Make Feed Pellets Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery provides a full ...
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AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide Now Approved for Use in Food and Cannabis Production in Canada
Under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, BioSafe Systems’ AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide has been approved for foliar spray treatment around food crops and cannabis in Canada. The approved label reads: AXXE Broad Spectrum Herbicide can now be used around berries, grapes, orchards, carrots, ginseng, onions, potatoes, hops, cannabis, nursery crops (field and container-grown ...
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Foundation for Agronomic Research Names John D. Jones Director
Washington, D.C. – The Fertilizer Institute today announced the selection of John D. Jones as the Director of the Foundation for Agronomic Research. Jones will provide oversight of the 4R Research Fund, coordinate a 4R Researcher network, and support other strategies to advance 4R nutrient stewardship. The 4R Research Fund is a science-based research initiative aimed at improving ...
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And there`s a potato wearing a cowboy hat
Three Minnesota teens develop a curriculum to teach 3rd- to 5th-graders the science and value of GMO ...
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