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The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) is calling on all farmers, supply chain businesses, and agricultural professionals to make a submission to the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into the Impact of Animal Activism before it closes in two weeks. “This Inquiry is a chance for farmers and supply chain businesses to tell the Government how illegal trespass, interfering with businesses, ...
ScoutPro announced the release of enhanced versions of the company’s grower applications today, including ScoutPro Grower – Corn and ScoutPro Grower – Soy. The release of the significant software update will increase the functionality of the ScoutPro apps and will allow growers and agriculture professionals free access to the enhanced versions. Since 2011, ScoutPro has ...
National Farmers Union (NFU) today (Nov 3, 2014) announced the opening of registration for the 2015 NFU Women’s Conference, a conference for farm and rural women. The national event, set for Jan. 17-21, 2015, in Clearwater, Fla., will provide participants with tools and information to confidently manage business risks on their farm or ranch operations and improve their rural leadership ...
The 4th annual Agribusiness Congress East Africa, taking place in Kampala, Uganda will bring farming professionals, key industry stakeholders and policy makers together to network directly with suppliers and vendor companies in the region. If you are local to East Africa and are looking to connect with more farming professionals and policy makers, this is a MUST ATTEND event in your annual ...
ScoutPro Inc. has partnered with Farmers Edge, a global leader in digital agriculture, to deliver the best-in-class imagery solution available for crop monitoring to their customers. Daily satellite imagery, state-of-the-art processing technology, and unique map layers are now integrated into the ScoutPro scouting app. Highly rated among retailers and other agricultural service providers, ...
Ames, Iowa, January 29th, 2013 – Farmers requiring sub-inch accuracy for tiling and other precision farming operations have a new GPS option from Ag Leader Technology, Inc.: the GPS 2500B RTK Base Station. Bill Cran, Ag Leader GPS Product Specialist, said, “The GPS 2500B is a dual-frequency 900 MHz RTK Base Station for use with the field-proven GPS 2500 smart antenna.” ...
Penton Agriculture today announced it has bolstered its eLearning with a new interactive platform www.pentonag.com. Farmers will now find all Penton Agriculture online continuing education on a new site that is fast, modern and easy to navigate across all mobile devices as well as the desktop. Photo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150707/232532 “Our first online continuing ...
By Informa PLC
Precision Agriculture at Your Service Learn where precision agriculture meets fertilizers and much more... Conducted by Mr. Arik Kaparovsky, Head Agronomist at SMART, this 40-minute webinar covers: The evolvement of precision agriculture The challenges we face worldwide Examples of important innovative solutions, and why you should care. Where does precision agriculture meet fertilizers? ...
Grass and slurry experts Major Equipment Intl Ltd are returning to the 2018 National Ploughing Championships with a strong line-up of tractor mounted machinery for agricultural, professional and industrial applications. With products renowned for durability, reliability and easy operability, Major Equipment designs equipment with the owner in mind – machines strongly feature versatility and ...
Today, Ag Leader, the leader in year-round precision farming technology widely known for the first commercially successful yield monitor, announced a limited beta release of a new grain cart connectivity feature, CartACE. Powered by Ag Leader's InCommand display, CartACE gives the grain cart operator assistance while unloading on-the-go. “We know that the grain cart seat cannot be filled ...
The U.S. pork industry is releasing its first-ever farming responsibility report: 2012 Pork Industry Progress Report, Responsible Farming. Our Heritage. Our Future. The 36-page report details the evolution of modern pig farming over generations and tracks advancements that have been made in vital areas such as food safety, animal well-being, environmental stewardship and worker safety. ...
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced agricultural grants for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices to reduce the use of potentially harmful pesticides and lower risk to bees all while controlling pests and saving money. “These collaborative projects can provide innovative solutions to reduce pesticide risks to pollinators and crops,” said James Jones, ...
Ag Leader has made it even easier for growers to access all their maps and information in its full-farm connectivity platform, AgFiniti. AgFiniti has been known to Ag Leader users as the way to gain insights into the operation through sharing information and maps between connected devices and InCommand displays. Now, when AgFiniti users connect to John Deere Operations Center and ...
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Penn State University would be one of three recipients of agricultural grants for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices to reduce the use of potentially harmful pesticides and lower risk to bees all while controlling pests and saving money. Penn State University will be receiving a grant for $159,632. " Protection of bee ...
Sentera-RDO Equipment partnership brings complete UAV solution packages to RDO Customers Sentera is excited to announce its partnership with RDO Equipment Co., a total solutions provider with 78 stores servicing the agriculture, construction, environmental, surveying, and irrigation industries. The RDO Equipment partnership augments RDO’s already robust product offering, giving their ...
The more data farmers and producers can access regarding their fields, the better they can make decisions regarding how to manage their farm operations, experts say. But boiling down information from field monitored data, satellite data and remote sensing data captured using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can sometimes be challenging, said Greg LaBarge, an Ohio State University Extension field ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today awarded five grants to support research, education and Extension programs that will improve the competitiveness of organic livestock and crop producers. "The organic industry is a rapidly growing segment of American agriculture and it is important we continue to invest in sound science to support ...
Public spending on agricultural research must double in the next decade if the world is to successfully move to sustainable methods of food production, says a UN-backed report. This funding must be coupled with long-term investment in the training of agricultural professionals to fill the skill gaps in many developing countries, concludes the report published yesterday by the Sustainable ...
By SciDev.Net
Staunch advocate of cooperation in the Mediterranean and of North-South dialogue, since 2013 Cosimo Lacirignola was Secretary General of the CIHEAM, an intergovernmental organization founded at the behest of Ramón Esteruelas Rolando in 1962 and headquartered in Paris (France). Cosimo Lacirignola graduated as an agricultural engineer and began his professional career in the European ...
On 22 January 2018, the European Commission published a notice to stakeholders on the impact of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the EU related to the field of industrial products. In view of the considerable uncertainties concerning which rules may or may not remain in place in the UK after its withdrawal from the EU, the European Commission has issued this notice to ...
By Verisk 3E
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