agriculture history News
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Interactive Center Brings Agriculture History, Innovation & Exploration to the Public
The young and young at heart will be at home inside the IQhub, a 9500-square foot center for agriculture history, innovation and exploration. The facility features 23 museum-quality exhibits chronicling the changes in agriculture over roughly four-hundred years. Beginning with Squanto's interactions with the pilgrims and the contribution made when he taught them to plant seeds alongside fish for ...
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Vardeman Farms: Generations Strong
It’s tough to find a producer who isn’t passionate about their career. Lacy Vardeman is no exception. She and her husband, Dean, are second-generation farmers of Vardeman Farms which covers 7,000 acres across Lubbock, Hockley and Lynn counties. Their three children, Ty, Molly and Abby will be the third generation to take over the family business. “It’s a family ...
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USSEC Welcomes Three New Members in June
On June 2, USSEC’s board of directors voted to add Fornazor International Inc., Freepoint Commodities, and the Missouri Department of Agriculture as its newest members. Fornazor International is a U.S. trading company and feed manufacturer that has been exporting commodities globally since 1979. Headquartered in Hillsdale, New Jersey, Fornazor International has developed ...
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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, ...
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Slow Food and FAO launch “Quinoa in the Kitchen”
The Slow Food movement and FAO officially launched the book, “Quinoa in the Kitchen,” today to continue to promote awareness about the super-food’s potential as the International Year of Quinoa draws to a close. The book gives an overview of quinoa’s roots in the history and culture of the central Andean high plateau, geographically extending across the borders of Peru ...
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Preventing rangeland erosion: Developing better management practices in Iran
The rangelands of Iran have one of the world’s longest history of agriculture development, with a deep tradition of technological developments and knowledge of the soil that has produced centuries of fertile crops. Currently, however, new pressures to feed an increasing population of humans and livestock in the region has taken its toll on the land, as evidence now suggests that the soil is ...
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New book explores history, future of international agriculture
For more than 100 years, scientists have made the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) a force for international change to improve agriculture. A new book, The International Dimension of the American Society of Agronomy: Past and Future, provides both a historical overview and a glimpse of the future of the world of agronomy. The contributions of science to agriculture over the last century are ...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Are Flying to the Farm
Aerial drones, a technology perhaps best known for helping hunt terrorists on the other side of the globe, may soon begin helping U.S. farmers monitor what's happening in their fields collecting agriculture data. In Georgia, a group of state and federal officials - along with members of industry and academia - has been working since 2009 to develop a drone that can save a farmer's time and ...
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Seaweed Harvester and Pump Manufacturer Collaborate
Hale Miller, seaweed harvester of Maine and Chad Schipman of eastern Montana, collaborated on pump modifications for seaweed harvesting. Schipman is the Engineering Manager for SRS Crisafulli, Inc. a pump manufacturer with a long history of building agricultural pumps. Miller and Schipman troubleshot and modified a pump system for sustainable seaweed harvesting. Miller uses a Crisafulli 4" ...
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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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Delta-T Devices soil sensors used by Rothamsted Research for the world`s oldest continuously-running agricultural field experiment
Rothamsted Research is the longest-running agricultural research institute in the world, with a history dating back to the middle of the 19th century. Sir John Bennet Lawes, an archetypal Victorian scientist, entrepreneur and benefactor, became interested in agricultural science after leaving Oxford University. On assuming responsibility for the family estate at Rothamsted (Harpenden, ...
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