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Benefits of Straw Charcoal Making for Agriculture Improved Soil Health and Fertility One of the primary benefits of using straw charcoal in agriculture is its positive impact on soil health. ...
Learn more about the use of Magnosiet and Kieserit in agriculture. Magnosiet and Kieserit are fertilizers based on sulphur or magnesium and are ideally suited for the use in agriculture. FERRO DUO has had outstanding quality magnosiet and kieserite fertilizers in its range for several years now, which are particularly suitable for use in industrial agriculture. Our high-quality and pure ...
Organic fertilizer production not only requires fermentation equipment, mixers, overturning equipment, belt conveying equipment, cylindrical sieves, pulverizers, organic fertilizer granulator machine, etc. ...
We are heading into what is looking like another typical year in agriculture where the only thing that is constant is change and wondering what the weather will do. This year in many areas of the Prairies had a dry fall, little to zero snowpack and what was there melted and ran off early leaving soil moisture levels at almost drought levels. This is leaving many producers wondering how to take ...
Germination is the period of highest water requirement during plant development, although oilseed rape is very frugal in this respect. ...
CFS's lawsuit cites the federal Organic Foods Production Act, which requires farms to build soil fertility in order to be certified organic. ...
Zhang’s achievements was a national fertilizer database, which helped the government recognise that farmers were applying more mineral fertilizer than was effective, leading to diminished returns and putting additional strain on the environment. ...
Farming can also be dangerously expensive, if a farmer practices conventional agricultural methods that require chemical fertilizers and pesticides. I say ‘dangerous’ because countless Indian farmers have committed suicide since the Green Revolution introduced industrial-style agriculture in the 1960s-70s. ...
This is part of our continuing support of the our Spanish company Engage Agroliner and is part of a promotional campaign to increase awareness that Integrate will reduce water and fertiliser requirement in the Mediterranean by up to 50% without loss of yield or quality. The unique makeup of the polymers involved in Integrate coat every soil particle and allow them to hold more water around their ...
“The sweet potato is a high-yielding crop suited to tropical and subtropical climates that requires minimal fertilization and irrigation, and the CX-1 industrial cultivar offers superior potential for feed and fuel,” Wilkie said. ...
These funds will cover the future closure of and treatment of hazardous wastewater at four Mosaic facilities—the Bartow, New Wales and Riverview plants in Florida and the Uncle Sam plant in Louisiana—as well as the long-term care of those facilities and three additional facilities that are already undergoing closure. The Mosaic Company, Mosaic Fertilizer’s ...
Looking at images of his Hampshire farm, the darker blue pools indicate where there needs to be more fertiliser used, whilst the yellow areas indicate where less fertiliser is required. As a result, yields on the farm are up 3-4 per cent and the farms fertiliser bill is down 5 per cent. ...
Speaking to The Guardian this week, Lord Krebs, an advisor to ministers on how to adapt to climate change, described how organic farming could actually be worse for the climate than conventional farming methods, due to the greater land use required and the methods implemented. Speaking to the Oxford Farming Conference he suggested that agricultural methods known as ‘no till’, which ...
Always a good source of farming related news and information, The Western Morning News reveals how a consortium of British businesses led by GrowHow UK has won funding to support the development of an automated system for the precision application of nitrogen fertiliser and plant growth regulators. The £1 million kitty required to develop the precision technology is funded ...
The Korhonen farm in Tervo, Finland, uses a Valtra N113 HiTech to maintain its forests and fields for game management. Nature is everything to this family’s active hunters, who manage their farm with respect for the environment. In this they rely on their Valtra. Antti Korhonen and his son Mikko are active nature lovers and hunters. Their family farm focuses on game management and ...
Pollination by wild insects and honey bees improves soybean yield by 18%, new research has indicated. This equates to an extra 331.6 kg of seeds per hectare, boosting the value of the global crop by €12.74 billion. Encouraging insect pollination could therefore reduce the destruction of natural ecosystems to make way for soybean cultivation, the researchers say. The soybean is one of the ...
Zeolite based fertilizers are known to be "smart fertilizers" due to the high cation exchange capacity (CEC) and porous crystalline structure. ...
The states will begin accepting June fertilizer tonnage data from fertilizer retailers electronically - a big step in a larger effort to achieve paperless tonnage reporting by the end of 2016. Full implementation of a paperless system will afford cost efficiencies while ensuring greater accuracy in reporting at both the state level and nationally, where the data ...
One problem with natural turf is the maintenance required. Grass playing fields require mowing, fertilizer, pesticides or herbicides, and watering, all of which adds up to significant costs. ...
Soil health has become more topical as some growers perceive a decline in their soil’s fertility and as soil-borne diseases impact on cotton cropping systems. ...