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More California winemakers using less water to grow grapes

The grape vines that grower Frank Leeds tends in Napa Valley stand among the unheralded heroes of California's drought, producing decade after decade of respected Cabernets and other wines without a drop of added water. In a state where farms and dairies take the biggest gulp of the water supply, Leeds and the owners of his Frog's Leap Winery are among a minority - but a growing minority - of ...

Oct. 3, 2015

By Associated Press

Farmers Journal Cyclone Test

Manufactured in Co Mayo, the heartbeat of machinery engineering in the west, we recently got our hands on a Major Cyclone rotary mower. With the prolonged spell of dry weather, farmers all over the country have been very busy draining and reclaiming land. Often such land may have a layering of rushes or scrub. With Major claiming to offer a machine with similar capabilities to a mulcher, but with ...

May 14, 2020

By Major Equipment

The Bumper Apple Harvest Continues – Dry Weather and Cone Bottom Tanks Needed!

With so many varieties grown across the UK, it’s no wonder that the apple harvest continues as winter approaches. The Worcester News reports how the ideal summer for apple growing is still resulting in an on-going record harvest which is great news for the growing number of cider producers across the country and for the expanding and varying cider market. Although the summer might not have ...

Oct. 16, 2015

By ENDURAMAXX Storage Tanks

A Break in the Weather – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks

Although we’ve written a great deal about the extremely wet weather lately and how farmers can exploit this free resource through the installation of rainwater harvesting tanks, according to Herald Scotland, farmers in the west of Scotland have experienced a spate of dry weather that they have used to their advantage. Recent dry weather has allowed farmers to get their spring crops sown ...

May 1, 2014

By ENDURAMAXX Storage Tanks

Better milk production and stronger piglets

Challenges with too many weak sucklings and not enough milk were turned around after many years of trying to come up with a solution. Poul Grøntved is a Danish pig producer. He owns a farm with 800 sows producing seven-kilo piglets. Like many other farms, Poul Grøntved has a growing litter size but struggled to increase the sows’ milk yielding to feed the growing litter. Lack ...

Sep. 30, 2019

By European Protein AS

Motorizing Sudanese crop irrigation

The parched landscape of Sudan, on the southern edge of the Sahara desert, is among the world's driest regions, with a nine-month dry season and a highly unreliable rainy season. Large-scale farmers there manage to grow about half of the impoverished nation's food production with the help of motorized irrigation pumps, but for individual subsistence farmers and their families--about two-thirds of ...

Jan. 24, 2008

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Global recognition for traditional farming systems in China, Iran and South Korea

Six traditional farming systems in China, Iran and South Korea known for their unique characteristics and approaches to sustainability have been designated Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) by FAO. They include Iran’s Qanat Irrigation system, an ancient network of farms that have survived for nearly three millennia; a 22-thousand-kilometer system of black stone walls ...

May 1, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

`Push–pull` pest control to reach more African farmers

A farming technology that uses intercropping to repel insect pests from food crops has been given a new lease of life by a programme to expand its uptake. The 'push–pull' strategy intercrops cereals with a repellent plant bordered by an attractive trap plant. For example, maize can be intercropped with desmodium, which repels ('pushes') pests such as the maize stem borer away from the ...

Apr. 26, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Product Launch: Heat-X

Following the co-operation agreement with Winterwarm we can now present the extended offering on gas heaters with two new series (indirect and direct) and six new models providing the farmer with energy savings and lower cost of ownership. The Heat-X series are suitable for Layer, Broiler and Greenhouse applications. The Heat-X indirect has a closed combustion chamber and a chimney that exits ...

Oct. 23, 2017

By Munters

Pasture trials harvest rewards

Western Dairy’s latest independent pasture trials and demonstrations are bigger than ever and helping inform the seed choices of Western Australia’s dairy farmers. The WA Seed Performance Trial (WASP), Grazing Management Demonstration ‘Goldilocks Grazing’ and the Seed Mix Trial all offer independent analysis of pasture varieties and management techniques tailored ...

Aug. 13, 2019

By Dairy Australia

Portuguese potato trader Oliveira improves quality and productivity with the TOMRA Sentinel II

Last June, Oliveira Pinho & Filhos, a family business located in the municipality of Mira (Portugal) dedicated to the trade of bagged potatoes and onions, purchased a Sentinel II optical food sorter from TOMRA. This machine is equipped with the latest pulsed LED technology for sorting food at a higher speed than earlier models. "Some farmers in France spoke very highly of the TOMRA ...

Oct. 30, 2017

By TOMRA Sorting GmbH

Mobile app for rain forecasts raising farmers’ yields

A mobile phone-based innovation that can predict rain is helping farmers in six Sub-Saharan Africa countries sow, fertilise and harvest crops at the optimum time. The innovation is being used in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal to improve crop yields and optimise food production throughinformation and communication technology (ICT) weather forecasting model that produces ...

Jul. 12, 2016

By SciDev.Net

Major crop losses in Central America due to El Niño

Prolonged dry weather associated with the El Niño phenomenon has severely reduced this year’s cereal outputs in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, putting a large numbers of farmers in need of agricultural assistance as the subregion tries to recover amidst ongoing dryness, FAO said today. This is the second consecutive year that the region's main season cereal harvest ...

Sep. 14, 2015

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

One herd test can help cut antibiotic use on-farm

That was the message from Dr John Penry who spoke to the Herd ’19 conference in Bendigo, recently, about ways dairy farmers can reduce the use of antibiotics on-farm. The newly appointed Dairy Australia manager of technical and innovation, Dr Penry outlined four management methods for dairy farmers to replace blanket dry cow therapy which involves treating the entire herd with ...

Apr. 29, 2019

By Dairy News Australia

Bhutan faces crop losses from erratic climate

Agricultural experts in the Himalayan country of Bhutan — a least developed country — are concerned at increasing crop losses in recent years, attributable to global warming. The losses, which began around 2004, are the direct result of increasing pest attacks and disease, erratic rainfall, windstorms, droughts, flash floods and landslides, officials said. The country’s latest ...

Sep. 9, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Israeli know-how helping to combat hunger in Africa

Israel has been a leader in developing innovative drip-irrigation systems that reduce the amount of water needed for farming. Most of Israel is arid, with the Negev Desert spanning 60 percent of the country. Desertification, water scarcity and soil erosion makes it increasingly difficult to farm, endangering the livelihoods of those who depend on agriculture for both food and income. But Israel ...

Nov. 8, 2010

By Worldwatch Institute

New Chickpea Helps Turkish Farmers Adapt to Global Warming

ALEPPO, Syria, September 4, 2007 (ENS) - The chickpea, one of the plants with the highest amount of protein, is a staple of Turkish food - enjoyed as a dip called hummus, roasted as a snack food called leblebi, often thrown into a soup or tossed onto a salad. But Turkish farmers have been enduring a severe drought for several years, which has caused their crops to fail. Now a new chickpea ...

Sep. 5, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Algae Producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil Announce Joint Commercial Agreement

Algae producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced that Aquaviridis has signed a commercial agreement with OriginOil to help develop the multi-phase algae production rollout at its Mexicali, ...

Feb. 3, 2012

By OriginClear Inc.

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