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Global Market for Agricultural and Forestry Machinery

This market research report package offers a perspective on the actual market situation, trends and future outlook for agricultural and forestry machinery in different countries around the world. The studies provide essential market information for decision-makers including: - Overall market for agricultural and forestry machinery in different countries - Market for agricultural and forestry ...

Mar. 18, 2013

Yearbook on China’s Agricultural Products 2013

Composed by a professional agriculture consulting company ---- Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultants Limited (CNAGRI), Yearbook on China's Agricultural Products 2013 (Chinese edition and English edition) will be issued in 2013. This is the first Yearbook on China's agricultural products that is composed fully in compliance with the international standard statistical format. The Yearbook is ...

Jun. 28, 2013

Strategic Analysis of the West African Agricultural Chemicals Market

The study analyses the agriculture chemical market in West Africa. The agriculture chemical market being analysed are the fertilisers and the crop protection chemicals in Nigeria and Ghana. In addition, fertilizer and crop protection chemicals demand in 2010, revenue and forecasted growth rate are highlighted, along with the market engineering measurements are provided; the pricing trends; ...

Jan. 12, 2012

EPA-funded Researchers Lead the Way in Children`s Health Research

Protecting children's health is one of the highest priorities at EPA. To ensure healthy U.S. children, three EPA-funded researchers will assume key roles in the National Children's Study, the largest study ever on the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States. The study will follow a representative sample of 100,000 children from before birth to ...

Oct. 10, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

MARVIN™ technology saves agriculture & horticulture time and money

Four hundred thousand seedlings, nearly half of what a plant grower of, say, young tomato plants, produces in one season; this is the amount that sorting machines with the MARVIN technology can process in a single day. They rapidly make 3D models of the plants and accurately evaluate their size and features in milliseconds. “The information can be automatically recorded in a database and ...

Nov. 21, 2016

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

Monitoring methane emissions from agriculture and dairy farming

Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted from human activities. In 2014, CH4 was responsible for around 11 percent of all US greenhouse gas emissions caused by human actions. Methane is emitted by a range of natural sources such as marshlands, leakage from natural gas systems and livestock farming [1]. Domestic ...

Feb. 1, 2017

By Edinburgh Sensors Ltd

High levels of glyphosate in agricultural soil: ‘Extension of approval not prudent.’

There has been a great deal of discussion about the use and extension of the approval of use of glyphosate as a herbicide. Glyphosate is the most used herbicide in Europe. In 2016 the approval by the European Commission for the use of this agent expired. However, an extension of approval of use is currently being discussed. One of the conditions of this is that the agent cannot have a negative ...

Oct. 16, 2017

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

Europe can improve decision making by better monitoring of agriculture

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. In a large pilot a consortium of researchers with 1,100 farmers from nine European countries have showed that it is possible to collect indicators on ...

May 11, 2017

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

UF researchers develop effective, inexpensive citrus greening detector

While a commercially available cure for crop-killing citrus greening remains elusive, University of Florida researchers have developed a tool to help growers combat the insidious disease: an efficient, inexpensive and easy-to-use sensor that can quickly detect whether a tree has been infected. That early warning could give growers enough lead time to destroy plagued trees and save the ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Axiom Microbiome Array for Research

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently launched the Applied Biosystems Axiom Microbiome Array for simultaneous detection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses in human and non-human samples. Developed in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the array is designed to increase the understanding of microorganisms, while ...

Feb. 5, 2018

By Thermo Fisher Scientific, LIMS & Laboratory Software

UF/IFAS researchers use pigs to root out problem weeds

Sometimes, the old-fashioned ways are the best ways. Back before chemical pesticides and herbicides, farmers had to come up with ways to kill the weeds that took over their fields. One method used “back in the day” was letting pigs loose in fields that were not being used for crops for a season and allowing the pigs to do what they do naturally: dig up the roots of weeds and ...

Jul. 27, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

USDA awards more than US$28m in specialty crop research

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that USDA awarded more than $28 million through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) to solve critical specialty crop agriculture issues, address priorities and solve problems through multifunctional research and extension. The Specialty Crop Research Initiative was established by the 2008 Farm Bill to support the specialty crop industry by ...

Oct. 16, 2008

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Bridgestone Americas Breaking Ground on New Biorubber Process Research Center

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSA) today announced the groundbreaking of its Biorubber Process Research Center, a research and development project in Mesa, Ariz., to investigate the use of the Guayule plant as an alternative natural rubber source. The invitation-only groundbreaking ceremony will take place on ...

May 9, 2013

By The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - USDA

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces New Report on Scientific Breakthroughs from USDA in 2013

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new report on scientific breakthroughs discovered by USDA researchers that led to new patents and inventions with the potential for commercial application and potential economic growth. Innovations included in the report range from flour made out of chardonnay grape seeds that prevents weight gain to antimicrobial packets that keep food from ...

Apr. 23, 2014

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Wireless Sensors for Precision Agriculture and Environmental Monitoring - Global Forecast and Analysis by Sensor Types, Applications and Geography (20

Central to “ambient intelligence”; insights into the wireless sensors market for precision agriculture and environmental monitoring are detailed in this report. This report refers to environmental and agricultural monitoring as areas deployed with intelligent sensor interface that tracks, informs about, provides granular control of, and monitors the environment and agriculture in ...

Dec. 7, 2012

CICP Announces Advancement of Food and Agriculture Innovation Initiative with Completion of an Industry Report, Introduction of New Name and Brand

With support from the State of Indiana, leading businesses, and academic institutions, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) has advanced their food and agriculture innovation initiative by creating a name and brand for the organization and publishing a “first-of-its-kind” industry report that details innovation in the State and identifies opportunities for growth. ...

Nov. 5, 2014

By Dow AgroSciences LLC

UF researchers develop machine to count dropped citrus, identify problem areas in groves

As citrus greening continues to impact Florida’s groves, growers have found that they need a way to quickly and accurately count the amount of fruit dropped early to help identify problem areas, which will save time and money. University of Florida researchers Wonsuk “Daniel” Lee, Daeun “Dana” Choi, Reza Ehsani and Fritz Roka devised a “machine vision ...

Aug. 12, 2015

By The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group Convenes Semi-Annual Full Committee Meetings

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May 28, 2013

By Acta Group

ARS plant collections help safeguard crops

In the months ahead, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists plan to collect walnuts from Kyrgyzstan, grasses from Russia, and carrots and sunflowers from fields across the Southeastern United States in efforts that will enhance one of the nation's most effective tools for protecting the food supply. Researchers will make the trips to collect plants with useful ...

Jan. 5, 2010

By U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Capillary electrophoresis used for the determination of different sugars in grapevine tissues

Recently, Dr. María F. Silva and her colleagues from the Institute of Agricultural Biology of Mendoza, Argentina, have published an article dedicated to the determination of different sugars in ...

Aug. 6, 2017

By Lumex Instruments Group

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