Sugarcane Farming News
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A Labor Government would provide Licella with a $5 million grant towards the development of a QLD biorefinery to transform sugarcane waste into SAF.
Licella welcome today’s announcement by the Australian Labor Party in support of domestic biofuel manufacturing for Defence. A Labor Government would provide Licella with a $5 million grant towards the development of a Queensland biorefinery to transform sugarcane waste into military spec fuels, including Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). This funding would help establish a commercial ...
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Taranis: Getting the Most Yield from Your Field
The numbers are simply astounding. According to a report published at the end of last year by the Environmental Protection Ministry and Leket Israel, the leading food rescue organization in Israel, in 2020 nearly 2.5 million tons of food waste was thrown away in Israel, amounting to NIS 19.1 billion ($6 billion). The total loss represents about 35% of the total food production in Israel, of ...
By Taranis
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Aviro D16, the World's First Gimbal Spraying For Pest Control
SINGAPORE, December 14, 2021 -- Precision spraying has never been in higher demand, dwindling human resources and pushing for more sustainable practice. Overuse of pesticides has long plagued the industry, not just for cost but also for a more significant ecosystem impact. Avirtech introduces the world's first gimbal-based spraying for high precision, accurate up to a spray radius of 10 cm. ...
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Babcock Valves supplies 500 valves for a boiler in Colombia
BABCOCK supplies more than 500 manual and motorized valves for a boiler in a sugar cane plant ...
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Custom biomass deconstruction enzymes
General Biomass Company uses advanced biotechnology to develop custom biomass deconstruction enzymes. Each nonfood biomass feedstock is different: old newspapers require different enzymes than sugar cane bagasse or nut hulls or coffee grounds or beetle-killed pine. We use a deep knowledge of biomass structure and sophisticated genomics tools to find the right enzymes for each feedstock, and ...
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Two Game Changers for Flow and Treat Companies
Two game changers for flow and treat companies are the provision of Market shares for competitors Predicted purchases by each major prospect Knowledge about your competitors share in each application in each geography is immediately useful to everyone from the local salesman to the CEO. More than 99 percent of all flow and treat products are purchased by companies which already own the ...
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Bramley recognised with a SPAA life membership
Dr Robert Bramley, a researcher with CSIRO from Adelaide, SA has been announced as the recipient of the SPAA Life membership award. Dr Bramley is highly respected in Australia and overseas for the research he has, and continues to undertake within the field of Precision Agriculture. His research work spans over 20 years and the contribution he has made to winegrape and sugarcane production is ...
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Avoiding the Slippery Slope of Environmental Concerns With Non-toxic Biolubricants
The lubricants industry is acutely aware of the need for environmentally-conscious options and sustainable development choices. In response to this demand, biolubricants began to make their mark a few years back. The term biolubricants applies to all lubricants that biodegrade expediently and which are non-toxic for both human beings and aquatic habitats. They may be plant-oil based (such as ...
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Continuous Pressure and Vacuum Filtration and Washing of Organic Cellulose and Biomass Products
The processing of organic, cellulose-containing materials has been around for many years as engineers have developed clever chemistry or cultivated natural conversion processes to make products with characteristics, which were not naturally available. Age-old examples are paper, linen or in the field of "conversion" to alcohol and methane. Currently, due to high oil prices along with the passage ...
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Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize
A Brazilian scientist who developed a method that reduces greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane cultivation has been awarded a prize that each year recognises a researcher whose work has excelled in the area of fertiliser use. Heitor Cantarella received the International Fertilizer Association’s (IFA) Norman Borlaug Award on World Fertilizer Day, on 13 October — the date German ...
By SciDev.Net
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Bioenergy Insight Conference 2017: Q&A session with Louisiana Forest Products Development Center`s Richard Vlosky
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. Richard Vlosky, director of Louisiana Forest Products Development Center The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, ...
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GMO crops could expect a brighter future
One of the touchier areas of scientific research – in much of Europe, at least – is the genetic manipulation of food plants, seaweed and algae to try to produce more food or provide better rates of conversion into biofuels. But across the Atlantic genetically-modified crops (GMOs) are increasingly a different story. They are a deeply controversial subject because early versions of GM ...
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Global harvest prospects improve for maize, wheat and rice crops
Staple food prices rose in August even as grain prices fell and the outlook for global cereal production improved. The FAO Food Price Index, released today, averaged 165.6 points in August, up 1.9 percent from July and almost 7 percent from a year earlier. The monthly jump was mostly driven by cheese and palm oil quotations, while those for wheat, maize and rice all fell. FAO raised ...
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UF/IFAS researchers scramble to find cure for tenacious, costly sugarcane virus
Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are working to find a cure or develop resistant varieties for a virus that is attacking sugarcane and sorghum throughout the Everglades agricultural region. Florida produces more than 50 percent of all sugarcane in the United States, making it the largest producer in the nation. The sugarcane yellow leaf virus ...
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Bionic leaf can fuel energy revolution
Scientists in the US claim to have beaten nature at its own game. They have created a “bionic leaf” that exploits sunlight to create biomass − and they say their invention is now 10 times more effective than an oak or maple leaf. Two separate laboratories at Harvard University have co-operated to devise, enhance and test a system that uses sunlight to split water molecules and ...
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ARPA-E Provides $300,000 In Third Round Funding For PETROSS Project
In May of 2016, the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded the University of Illinois and the University of Florida $300,000 to continue researching ultra-productive biofuel crops. The research project is called Plants Engineered To Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS), and this is the third round of funding that it will receive from ARPA-E. PETROSS is ...
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Palm oil keeps global food price trend heading up in April
Global prices of key staple food commodities rose in April, marking its third consecutive monthly increase after four years of decline. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 151.8 points in April, a 0.7 percent increase from March. That is about 10 percent below its level of a year ago and more than a third off its 2011 highs. The gradual increase is far from even across the board. April's increase ...
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Adverse weather pushes food prices up in October
Major food commodity prices rose in October, spurred by weather-driven concerns about sugar and palm oil supplies. The FAO Food Price Index averaged nearly 162 points in October, up 3.9 percent from September, while still down 16 percent from a year earlier. FAO's latest Cereal Supply and Demand Brief slightly trimmed its October 2015 forecast for global cereal production and now ...
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition confirms its silage expert position at the XVII International Silage Conference, in Brazil
Lallemand Animal Nutrition was pleased to take part in the XVII International Silage Conference organized by ESALQ (Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo) in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, from July 1st to 3rd, as platinum sponsor of the event, industry exhibitor and scientific contributor. This event gathered more than 300 attendees from 32 countries, ...
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Satellite mapping reveals agricultural slowdown in Latin America: UBC study
For the first time, satellite mapping of Latin America shows that the continent’s agricultural expansion has waned in the wake of the global economic downturn, according to UBC research. “Nearly every agricultural region across Latin America slowed down in expansion from 2007 to 2013, compared to the previous six years,” says Jordan Graesser, the study’s lead author. ...
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