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January is always a busy time, especially for farmers. It’s a month filled with essential maintenance tasks: hedging, tree planting, clearing ditches, and ensuring drainage systems are in top shape. Livestock farmers also bring their sheep indoors to protect them from harsh winter weather and carry out pregnancy scanning. But January is also a time for innovation and connection, ...
Pheromones are substances produced as messengers that affect the behavior of other insects, animals and members of the same species. In order to engage in routine activities, each species of insects relies on more than one hundred chemicals during its life. Pheromones can be mainly divided into the following species in function: trace pheromones (to locate a food source), aggregation pheromones ...
Three years ago, he enlisted the services of Westfield-based agricultural monitoring service Taranis. Founded in Israel, the company moved its headquarters to Indiana in 2020. ...
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Over the past 20 years, Brazil has emerged in the global agriculture industry as both a major producer and exporter of agricultural products. Agricultural production in Brazil has exploded over this time and its impact on global markets has been significant. ...
Modernization of agriculture and the use of digital technology have caused new concepts to emerge such as precision farming, digital farming, and smart farming. ...
The 4th agricultural revolution that we stand on the brink of today, or in other words the digital transformation in agriculture and information technologies based on the use of big data, plays a key role in the solution to this problem. To establish a smart agricultural system, three factors need to be rendered together: Technology which ...
GreenBlu is proud to have been selected as a Global Finalists for the world-renowned Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge! From 4,500 applications, we are One of the Six Finalists in the Food, Agriculture and Environment track pitching at the HT Summit in Paris on March 14-15th. About Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge Hello Tomorrow is a non-profit organisation bringing together a community of ...
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The greening and cross-compliance measures that have been introduced in Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pose challenges to policy evaluators. Policy makers lack good data to monitor if their measures are effective and efficient. ...
To this end, the organisers had invited specialists from a number of national and international institutions, namely the Italian Research Council (CNR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), the French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), the ...
The protocol that will be drawn up in collaboration with the CIHEAM, the Italian Research Council (CNR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will draw on the scientific research available and will build a control and certification instrument, for use not only by the authorities but also by technical experts assisting companies and supplying them ...
‘Dutch agricultural soils are not future-proof’ was a widely accepted statement at the final meeting of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Sustainable Soil. Breeders, chain partners, suppliers, the government and the science sector see a gradual deterioration in soil quality and are joining forces within the PPP to find a solution. “It isn’t a simple matter,” says ...
"This is a package of measures which can have a material and positive impact on European agricultural markets and it should now be given the chance to succeed." ...
A new study published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal investigated the field performance of 5 soil moisture instruments in heavy clay soils in the RISMA network. The HydraProbe outperformed TDR and capacitance-based soil sensors in terms of stability and accuracy in Manitoba’s agricultural soil. Much of soil in the Canadian Prairie farmland is vertisolic. Soils with clayey ...
Agricultural land use presents a number of environmental challenges, which the European Commission is committed to addressing through a range of agri-environmental policies. A new study points to the importance of aligning agri-environmental policies with farmers’ needs and operations. Using the case of land clearing in Finland, the research underlines the importance of incorporating input ...
Cropland was defined as arable land, including either temporary or permanent agricultural crops or harvested flowers. The researchers also developed a second map to illustrate field size across the world. ...
Scientists recommend policies that alternate between mowing and grazing to manage Europe’s high-nature-value grasslands. This comes after a new seven-year study found that a high plant-species diversity helps grasslands to maintain productivity and to resist depletion of phosphorus caused by livestock grazing and depletion of potassium caused by mowing. Grasslands with high levels of ...
The European Commission has approved 20 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries. The total budget of the programmes, the grand majority of which will run for a period of three years, is € 46,5 million of which the EU contributes € 23,3 million. The selected programmes cover a variety of product categories, such as quality products (PDOs, ...
Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds he does not have. After months of drought in northwest Haiti, the subsistence farmer struggles to find food for his 13 children. To earn a little money, he must turn to work that only makes things worse, cutting what little wood remains for charcoal. "The rain isn't falling. I can't feed ...
The European Commission has approved 22 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries. The total budget of the programmes, the grand majority of which will run for a period of three years, is € 70 million, of which the EU contributes € 35 million. The selected programmes cover quality products registered and protected as PDOs (Protected ...
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) do successfully enhance the number and variety of insect pollinators, research suggests. They are particularly effective when implemented in arable landscapes which also contain some semi-natural habitat. AES were introduced in Europe in the early 1990s in response to declining farmland biodiversity. However, evaluations of their efficacy for biodiversity ...