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Farming can often include high-risk, low-profit margins and lots of debt. Researchers are experimenting with high-throughput automated plant phenotyping, a technology that reduces risks and increases the profits of farming. Part of that technology is ToughSonic® ultrasonic distance sensors from ...
On March 25th, EAVISION carried out an intelligent drone plant protection flight control test on crops on the slopes of the mountainous area, injecting scientific and technological energy into the spring ploughing. ...
There are many factors that will influence the production of agricultural products & crops. Among them, fertilizer will largely determine the production output of crops. ...
Farmers and plant breeders are also planning for a future. The crops we currently depend on will need grow under different conditions – due to climate change. ...
Their advice: chose a mixture of winter cover crops which is productive and high in nitrogen, avoid the succession of closely related crops. ...
The preliminary results were obtained while field testing the application of FIGARO components during the development period. The current fourth season of the project is demonstrating the integrated FIGARO Platform in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Denmark and Israel on tomatoes, maize, citrus and cotton crops. The tests show that the FIGARO ...
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It can take up to 30 years to improve a crop variety, test it and persuade farmers to adopt it. That means the speed of climate change in Africa could make a new variety of maize useless even before the first harvest, according to new research. ...
In fact, in four of the six test sites for the 2015 Ohio Soybean Performance Test, soybeans averaged over 70 bushels per acre, said Laura Lindsey, a soybean and small grains specialist with Ohio State University Extension. ...
An international consortium of scientists have been testing wheat crops in laboratory and field trials in many areas of the world in changing climate conditions and discovered that yields drop on average by six percent for every one degree Celsius rise in temperature. ...
Weed control is one of the most challenging aspects of organic crop production. Most growers of certified organic crops rely heavily on proven cultural and mechanical weed control methods while limiting the use of approved herbicides. A new study of herbicides derived from clove oil tested the natural products' effectiveness in controlling weeds ...
The Dutch-German ‘Healthy Greenhouse’ project offers a completely new ‘total concept’ for crop protection in modern greenhouse horticulture. This new ‘Healthy Greenhouse System’ enables growers to produce high-quality crops without pests and diseases. ...
Wageningen UR’s test fields in Lelystad can be used to test various pesticides simultaneously, with almost surgical precision. ...
Wageningen UR’s test fields in Lelystad can be used to test various pesticides simultaneously, with almost surgical precision. ...
GE crops grew to play a significant role in the U.S., with more than 160 million acres of farmland used to produce GE crops in 2011. However, the development of new GE crops has recently slowed to a trickle due to litigation over field testing and deregulation. ...
Crop and herbicide use history are more critical to herbicide efficacy and environmental safety than the timing and amount of irrigation water used, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. ...