agriculture spray News
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Yamaha Remotely Piloted Helicopters
Yamaha unmanned helicopters are designed for a wide range of industrial and research applications and have been operating commercially since 1991. Originally engineered for agricultural spray applications on rice paddies in Japan, Yamaha units are now also being used in Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. Yamaha has established a Spray Services office in Napa, CA to ...
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Cross-Section Averaged Spray Characteristics
A new ASTM International standard, E2872, Guide for Determining Cross-Section Averaged Characteristics of a Spray Using Laser-Diffraction Instruments in a Wind Tunnel Apparatus, will be used to guide characterization of nozzles and atomizers using laser diffraction instruments. E2872 is primarily applicable to aerial agricultural spraying, aerial forest sprays and air-blast spraying. ...
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EAVISION Turkey Application, Agriculture Spray Drone Support to Farmers in Diyarbakir
6 thousand decares of wheat field in Diyarbakir Yenisehir District Sivritepe Neighborhood was sprayed with a drone in cooperation with the Municipality and the District Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry. Diyarbakir Yenisehir District Governor and Mayor Murat Besikci, Yenisehir District Agriculture and Forestry Director Abbas Ates, Yenisehir Chamber of Agriculture President Süleyman ...
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PINEYE® Emulsion, a new adjuvant for aerial spraying
With the development of applied science, agricultural sprayers have become a key equipment in crop production. How to choose a suitable sprayer is a topical issue for growers. It is, in fact, the first step to improve the usage rate of pesticides and fungicides, a smart way to save farm management cost. Growers, however, may try to select innovative adjuvants to adequately protect crops. ...
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Semios Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for Aerosol Pheromones in Agriculture
Semios, provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, has been given approval by Health Canada, Pest Management Regulatory Authority for their Semios OFM Plus pheromone product that disrupts the mating of oriental fruit moth. “We have already had great success rates with this product in the US and Europe, so we are especially pleased to have the ...
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EPA Launches a Voluntary Star-Rating Program to Reduce Pesticide Drift and Protect People, Wildlife and the Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a new voluntary Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) program to encourage the use of verified, safer pesticide spray products to reduce exposure and pesticide movement while saving farmers money in pesticide loss. “Every year state and local agencies receive thousands of complaints about the impacts of pesticide drift on people, wildlife ...
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Terra Drone Fully Expands into Agriculture Sector; Business Transfer from Avirtech
Terra Drone Corporation, a leading drone and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) technology provider, is expanding into the precision agriculture sector by acquiring the business of Avirtech, a leading startup providing agricultural drone spraying and mapping service in Southeast Asia. Terra Drone establishes a new company Terra Drone Agri in Malaysia. Terra Drone expands its business under the new business ...
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Techniques to reduce spray drift pollution from vineyards
Several mitigation techniques can greatly reduce spray drift pollution from pesticide spraying in agricultural systems, shows a new study. Researchers tested the effectiveness of several strategies; results ranged from a 38% reduction in spray drift using low-drift equipment to a 98% reduction when hedgerows are present alongside fields. When pesticides are sprayed on agricultural fields, some ...
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CNH Industrial and ONE SMART SPRAY announce integration of precision spraying solution
CNH Industrial and ONE SMART SPRAY, a joint venture between Bosch and BASF, have signed a collaboration agreement to integrate the latter’s advanced spraying system within CNH Industrial’s agricultural brand product portfolios. The system’s integration will be led by the Raven team and will be commercially available via the global Case IH and New Holland Agriculture brands. The ...
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Are we running out of phosphate?
The scientific community has issued a stark warning that we may exhaust supplies of phosphate, a fertiliser that is crucial to ensuring global food security, in the next few decades. Along with nitrogen, phosphate comprises an integral component of the fertiliser that farmers use to spray crops and maximise agricultural yields all over the world. But while our atmosphere is composed of nearly ...
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10 Agriculture Automation Companies Shaping the Future of Farming
Automation and robotics are changing the face of agriculture at an alarming pace. The advantages of agriculture automation are apparent: prices are reduced for consumers, the environmental footprint of farming is significantly reduced, and efficiently reduces labor costs across the board. From self-driving tractors to weeding robots and controlled environment agriculture, agriculture automation ...
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