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While still in their industrial infancy, fields like hydroponics and aquaculture are posed to feed future generations in the face of ever-increasing resource scarcity. Hydroponic and aquaculture farming practices are solutions rooted in sustainability, but a different type of scarcity — i.e., financial constraints – may bar small-scale ...
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Their adaptability makes them suitable for a wide range of irrigation systems, from small-scale farms to large agricultural operations. 5. Improved Water Flow: The open area design allows for optimal water flow, preventing pressure drops in the irrigation system. ...
In a pioneering initiative, Iowa State University (ISU) is embarking on a research project to explore the combination of crops and solar power. The Alliant Solar Farm at Iowa State University is a groundbreaking agrivoltaics research project merging solar power generation and agriculture to study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. ...
IGS has secured a partnership with Eden Towers, the hyper-efficient vertical farming business, to power a commercial scale vertical farm in Western Australia to grow leafy greens, specialty crops and begin the development of indigenous crops to support the local indigenous community and enter new markets. ...
Generally, flat die feed pellet mill is suitable for household, farm, mini or small scale feed pellet production. It is usually designed with electrical engine, diesel engine, PTO engine, and gasoline engine. Small electric animal feed pellets machine is the most widely used in many poultry farms, livestock breeding farms or ...
Autogrow has unveiled a corporate reorganization as part of a long-term business strategy which will see the organization split into two separate entities with the launch of digital farming company WayBeyond. WayBeyond Limited (WayBeyond) led by CEO and Founder Darryn Keiller, will focus on the global expansion of digital farm solutions for large ...
The LEAC's Model Zoning Task Force, led by Marcus Zbinden, a member and award-winning regulator from Carver County, MN, has spent the past year focusing on zoning ordinances from around the country in the areas of commercial, on-farm and community-scale composting and pulled the best and most common issues and definitions from all of them for our draft template. ...
Our Grow Back Better road map sets out the urgent tasks ahead of us all to ensure food, farming and land use becomes a major part of the solution, rather than the huge problem it is often perceived as. ...
Advocacy groups have long been seeking loan-related records to understand how taxpayer dollars are propping up industrial animal agriculture operations at the expense of small family farms. FSA's illegal practices violate FOIA, and obscure FSA's funding of factory farms over independent farms. ...
Vertical feed mixer, which is a small-scale feed processing equipment designed for rural farmers, small-scale farms, small and medium-sized cooperative feed plants, and also has good effects in mixing powder and chemical raw materials. ...
The Manure Management Market Leader We have had a very busy few days in a snowy Ukraine this weekend where Rick was completing three Dairypower Smart Manure Aeration installations for large scale pig farms. The system is now established as being the most cost effective and environmentally friendly method of keeping manure in a homogeneous pumpable state that is ...
This method is not accurate or consistent for modern markets, so producers now use single farm animal scales for more accurate readings. Using scales to weigh market animals is ideal, but weighing one animal at a time requires substantial labor and time. The use of a single pig scale is simply too slow to be cost effective. ...
(TruLeaf), the indoor, multi-level farming company from Bible Hill, Nova Scotia has closed an $8.5-million equity-finance round. ...
The first-ever federal regulations for large-scale fish farming in the ocean were issued Monday, opening a new frontier in the harvesting of popular seafood species such as red drum, tuna and red snapper. ...
AGRI-IT company FarmWizard is launching a new cloud based dairy parlour control system (PCS) which enables management of multiple milking parlour systems across multiple farm sites. FarmWizard, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies and the company who provide software for Cogent PD+ , will unveil the PCS at the Northern Ireland ...
The FIGARO (Flexible and Precise Irrigation Platform to Improve Farm Scale Water Productivity) platform acts as an SAAS platform. It periodically runs leading and approved crop models to provide farmers with on-line recommendations regarding the best irrigation and fertilization schedules for their farms. ...
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The FIGARO platform V1, a decision support system for water and fertilizer irrigation, acts as a SaaS platform, periodically running leading and approved crop models to provide farmers with on-line recommendations regarding the best irrigation and fertilization schedules for their farms. Data is provided for specific crops and soils, water and climate conditions. ...
ByFIGARO
The arguments about GM continue to rage in farming, research and development communities across the world. Some declare the technology to be an environmental hazard and a threat to smallholder farmers. ...
These include: developing technological and professional competence; upgrading technology infrastructure; stimulating collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship; and providing an enabling science, technology and innovation environment. Similar farming systems As a partner, India is “handy because of the similarities in our farming systems”, ...
During the meeting, which will be held at the Scientific Park of the University Politécnica de Valencia from January 20–24, 2014, the first annual results of all field tests will be evaluated in order to optimize the FIGARO (Flexible and Precise Irrigation Platform to Improve Farm Scale Water Productivity) system. In the coming months, the FIGARO ...
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