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Professional Webinar: Precision Agriculture at Your Service

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? ...

Nov. 30, 2016

By Smart Fertilizer Management

Haiti’s Young Agronomists

In this past fiscal year, SOIL hosted six interns in the agricultural department. The interns were all agriculture students at local universities who come to SOIL to fulfill their internship requirement during their last year of schooling. In SOIL’s agricultural intern program, students gain practical hands-on experience in lab work, research and compost production, and then design and ...

Jul. 9, 2015

By SOIL Haiti

TIMAC AGRO Italia closer to the farmer with augmented reality

New technologies, like augmented reality, will allow us to be closer to farmers tomorrow. Communicating immediately, friendly and fun are the needs they express today, and these new processes will meet them. At the “Interpoma” trade fair in Bolzano, the stand of TIMAC AGRO Italia was futuristic and caught the attention of visitors to give them the opportunity to try a virtual reality ...

Mar. 15, 2019

By TIMAC Agro Italia

CFA member Soil Capital launches European carbon payment programme with CFT

Soil Capital, a firm of independent agronomists and financial professionals, has launched the first European carbon remuneration programme, for farmers by ...

Sep. 25, 2020

By Cool Farm Tool (CFT)

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 ...

Sep. 9, 2010

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Agrow award finalists announced

Certis have beaten off tough competition to be one of six crop protection companies shortlisted for the best marketing campaign category as part of the Agrow Awards 2016. Designed to honour individuals and companies who have achieved high standards in the crop protection and agrochemical industry, the awards are fast becoming a prestigious event, attracting entries from world leading companies. ...

Aug. 12, 2016

By Certis UK

Sentera’s real-time NDVI video streaming is a giant leap for growers & agronomists everywhere

Streaming Directly to Your Mobile Device in Real Time Sentera today announced the upcoming release of LiveNDVI video: livestreamed NDVI video via the Sentera Double 4K sensor. This breakthrough technology will offer agronomists worldwide the fastest way to make decisions and specify inputs based on complete, real-time data. Sentera’s Double 4K “little green sensor” processes ...

Jan. 10, 2017

By Sentera, Inc.

New Agronomist joins our Team

Mike Stoker has joined Engage Agro Europe (EAE) as the company’s new Technical Manager and will work with the UK team overseeing all technical aspects of sales from the European agronomists and the distribution of EAE products across Europe. As part of Mike’s new role, he will also oversee several new projects the company is currently developing. Mike will join a dynamic EAE team ...

Aug. 14, 2018

By Engage Agro Europe Ltd

Network Directly With Leading Soil Health Experts at Midwest Soil Health Summit; Scholarships Still Available

Leading the program will be soil scientist and MacArthur Fellow Dr. David Montgomery (right), author of books like “Growing a Revolution” which makes the case for agriculture that is profitable and productive that cools the planet and restores life to the land. His interests lie at the intersection of the solid earth – the rocky crust beneath our feet – and the ...

Jan. 24, 2019

By Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Agronomy society hires agronomic education manager

Bruce Erickson, a long-time Certified Professional Agronomist and expert in precision agriculture, has joined the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) as its new agronomic education manager. In the position, which is a new one for ASA, Erickson will work to develop the society’s educational programs by giving classes, writing continuing education articles, organizing Webinars, presenting at ...

Aug. 11, 2011

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Pasture Improvement Underway

With 2016 planting well underway, the team at Ross Watson Agriculture have been busy renovating pastures with our Davimac DF Seed Drill. Based in Scone NSW, Ross Watson is a leading independent consulting agronomist. His Farm Services Division provides the most professional pasture contracting services in the Hunter Region. With over 25 years experience, Ross can provide you with the best ...

May 9, 2016

By Davimac

Exhibiton: Meet SMART at AgriTech 2018, Tel Aviv - May 8-10, 2018

Looking for true innovation that has real impact on your farming business? Don't miss out on meeting our experts and agronomists at AgriTech 2018 in Tel Aviv! Find out why farmers all over the world are using SMART Fertilizer software to boost their profitability. Whether you are a farmer, agronomist, consultant or researcher, or are looking for business development and partnerships, visit us at ...

Sep. 4, 2019

By Smart Fertilizer Management

Solvi Scout — A New Way to Scout Fields in Minutes

Maps created from drone imagery are efficient tools that provide a birds-eye view of agriculture fields, revealing where problem areas might exist. But only being in the field and ground-truthing will tell the full story and the reason behind variations in plant health maps. Scouting the field on foot is a time-consuming task though and there is only so much one can scout by feet, resulting in ...

Apr. 27, 2020

By Solvi AB

Meet Growing together, watering better: Irritec`s new bi-monthly newsletter for experts and enthusiasts in the field

“Growing together, watering better” is Irritec’s new newsletter designed to help experts and enthusiasts in the field to discover the perfect sustainable solutions for the irrigation of the best-known crops in agriculture. A bi-monthly appointment that brings together all the experience of our best qualified Irritec agronomists in the field of micro-irrigation, alongside the ...

Feb. 17, 2021

By IRRITEC SpA

Single App – Multi-crop ScoutPro App Released

ScoutPro releases single app with multiple crop platform ScoutPro’s newest app to hit the market has been available for download since March 17th for agronomists, scouts, and growers to download. For the past five years, the ScoutPro team has worked as a leader in managed field observations creating a robust scouting platform. “We’ve built our software with the scout’s ...

Mar. 27, 2017

By Scout Pro Inc

GM rice `spreading illegally in China`

Illegal genetically modified (GM) rice seeds have been found in several Chinese provinces by a government investigation, according to an environment ministry official. A joint investigation by four government departments discovered the seeds, attributing their presence to "weak management", according to the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). China has allowed GM crops such as cotton, ...

Jun. 20, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Engage Agro Europe to attend the Elsom’s Seed Days

Engage Agro Europe will be attending the Elsom’s seed days for the first time in 2016. The seed days are now an essential part of the vegetable calendar and are held this year on the 12th and 13th of October 2016. The seed days cover an extensive range of vegetable and arable plots available to view, featuring new and novel introductions with specialist technical advice available on both ...

Oct. 5, 2016

By Engage Agro Europe Ltd

FIGARO Project to Hold First Live Demonstration of its Precision Irrigation Platform in Xanthi Greece

FIGARO, an EU-funded international project focused on developing the new precision agriculture Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation management for increasing water productivity, will start a series of live demonstrations of the benefits and capabilities of the FIGARO System, with a workshop in Greece. The first demonstration will be organized by the Democritus University of Thrace ...

Mar. 14, 2016

By FIGARO

President`s budget proposal includes increase to Ag-related sciences

The Obama Administration rolled out a multi-trillion-dollar budget proposal Monday, February 13, which includes an increase in funding for agriculture related research and development. The $3.8 trillion federal budget proposal shows the U.S. Department of Agriculture would endure cuts of $32 billion over 10 years, largely through the elimination of direct payments, as well as cuts of subsidies ...

Feb. 13, 2012

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Newly Revised Ohio Agronomy Guide for Sale

A lot can change in 12 years. That’s why the 2005 edition of the Ohio Agronomy Guide was just revised to offer the most up-to-date guidelines for planting corn, soybeans, wheat and forages in Ohio, managing the pests they attract and enriching the soil in which they grow. All the guidelines offered in the book are specific to Ohio and based on research in Ohio fields. If a farmer, forced ...

May 25, 2017

By Ohio State University

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