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The Role of LEDS in Speed Breeding
Some of the most important crops for feeding the ever-increasing global population include wheat and barley. In order to meet the future demand, scientists have a task of finding ways to improve efficiencies in breeding these and other, similar plant species. Typically, more than 10 years are needed to develop novel cultivars with an advanced agronomic performance. On one hand it is because ...
By Valoya Oy
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Things You Need To Know About Animal Feed Pellets Ingredients
Animal feed ingredients refer to the feed that takes an animal, plant, microorganism or mineral as raw materials in feed processing. If you are interested in the feed pellet making machine, please read this article. Here are several animal feed ingredients as follow: Feed Pellet Making Machine To Make Corn(maize) Corn is the main raw material of animal feed, generally fit accounted for about 60% ...
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Palm oil keeps global food price trend heading up in April
Global prices of key staple food commodities rose in April, marking its third consecutive monthly increase after four years of decline. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 151.8 points in April, a 0.7 percent increase from March. That is about 10 percent below its level of a year ago and more than a third off its 2011 highs. The gradual increase is far from even across the board. April's increase ...
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Mycotoxin Outbreak Hurts Crops and Farmers across the U.S.
In addition to grappling with a record-breaking drought and heat, now farmers must deal with outbreaks of fungi that are destroying their crops as well. Specifically, corn and wheat industries in the Midwest, Southern, and Eastern regions of the country are experiencing aflatoxin and deoxynivalenol (DON) outbreaks. The drought has already prevented farmers from reaching their normal crop yields, ...
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Despite weather extremes EU-27 cereal production in 2013 expected to be higher than last year
This year total cereal production in the EU-271 is forecast to be well above 2012 levels and above the average of the past five years. This agricultural year has so far been marked by an unusually prolonged winter for western and central Europe and heavy rainfall in May and June. However, the impact of poor weather on crops in some areas of the EU has been offset in other areas; for example, the ...
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Understanding land use change and US ethanol expansion
Understanding changes in land use—such as deforestation, urbanization and agriculture expansion—is important if society is to properly address the challenges of climate change, utilization of natural resources, and energy production and consumption. However, the intensifying debate over potential indirect land use changes resulting from biofuels expansion is nebulous at best. At worst, it is ...
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