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John Deere Introduces New 5R Series Tractors and New 540R Loader
John Deere introduces its new 5R Series Tractors that leverage existing technologies normally found in large tractors, to provide customers with unrivaled maneuverability, an easy-to-use transmission, increased visibility, loader integration, and operator comfort. A 7.4-foot wheelbase paired with a 60-degree steering angle, provides a tight turning radius of 12.1 feet. Customers working in ...
By John Deere
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A Big Future For Biologicals
Major investments are bringing more products to the field Is the wind in the sails of biological products? Current trends say yes. Biological sales hit $2 billion in 2012 and jumped to $7 billion in 2021, according to DunhamTrimmer, a market research group focused on global biological markets. In row crops, annual sales of biological products were estimated at $400 million in 2020 but will ...
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Crop Growers Told to Prepare for Low Price Era
Following some of the best years ever for growing row crops, an agricultural economist advised farmers to prepare for several years of lower prices, at a workshop at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 95th Annual Convention. “The last six years have been extraordinary years if you are a row crop producer,” said Matthew Roberts, an associate professor at Ohio State ...
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Specialty Crop Tractor Coming Soon
Spirit of Innovation at LEE Historically, our goal at LEE is to produce innovative tractors to address numerous crop production issues like escape weeds, variety improvements, and chemical efficacy for researchers and row crop producers world-wide. We continuously pursue that goal by listening to current and prospective customers. We take lots of notes, conduct research, design ...
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AgBiome Receives Inaugural 2016 Innovation Award
AgBiome was recently named a most innovative startup by AgFunder as part of its Innovation Awards, a program created to recognize companies introducing transformative technology to drive agriculture forward. The awards are the first of their kind to recognize leadership in agri-tech innovation from around the globe. AgFunder, a leading online ag investment platform, introduced the inaugural ...
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Kubota Set to Compete in New Market Segment with Introduction of Highly Anticipated M7-Series Tractor Line
Kubota introduces the highly anticipated M7-Series Tractor Line – Kubota's mid-range tractor entry into the commercial livestock and row-crop production markets. From the floor of its 2014 Dealer Meeting in Nashville, Kubota Tractor Corporation today introduced its M7-Series tractor line, three new mid-range tractors in the 130 to 170 horsepower range. This is the largest horsepower ...
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Carbon Robotics Disrupts Farming Industry with Autonomous Weeders
Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, today unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to safely and effectively drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds. Unlike other weeding technologies, the robots utilize high-power lasers to eradicate weeds ...
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Grass-based farming systems: Soil conservation and environmental quality
Crop selection and sequence can have a profound effect on the environment and on farm profitability. According to Chapter 7, “Grass-based Farming Systems: Soil Conservation and Environmental Quality” by Jeremy W. Singer, Alan J. Franzluebbers, and Douglas L. Karlen in the book, Grassland Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture, the basis for a productive agricultural system should ...
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ROSPHERE: a spherical robot for exploration missions
Researchers at the UPM have developed a robot prototype by using an unconventional motion mode to conduct missions on wild environments. The Robotics and Cybernetics Research Group from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has special interest in developing robots able to live in environments where the motion can be a difficulty due to uneven ground. They studied, designed and built a ...
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Pivot App update: Water allocation, NDVI and much more
Our Pivot App has been recently upgraded, giving row crops growers even better visibility of their plants, soil and irrigation status to support their decision making. Let's see what's new. NDVI inside NDVI maps have been added without additional cost to all our customers. With Sentinel-2 NDVI images for each plot, every 5 days (depending on cloud cover) growers have another significant data ...
By Phytech
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Ag Leader Technology and Kinze Manufacturing Introduce New High-Speed Planting Technology
Today, Ag Leader announced its high-speed planting system SureSpeed, to serve row crop farmers with accurate seed placement at speeds up to 12 miles per hour. The meter with integrated delivery system was developed in collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing. Introduction is planned for the 2021 planting season through each company’s respective dealer networks. “Working with ...
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For Soybean Insect-Pest Management, There’s No Substitute for Scouting a Field, Says Researcher
The weather in the Mid-South region causes intense pest pressure for row-crop farmers. To maintain yields, farmers in this area must treat numerous insect pests, more so than farmers in other areas of the country, according to Mississippi Extension entomologist Angus Catchot, Ph.D. In a new Focus on Soybean webcast, Catchot outlines best-management practices to treat pests common to the region. ...
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BioConsortia Finalist in Agrow Crop Science Award for Best R & D Pipeline
BioConsortia, Inc., innovator of microbial solutions for natural plant trait enhancement and yield improvement, has been named a “Finalist” in the coveted Agrow Crop Science Awards 2020 in the category of “Best R & D Pipeline”. Over 100 entries were received for the 13 categories being run this year. Each application was scored by Agrow’s panel of 10 judges, ...
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BIOCONSORTIA Announces Two New Nematicides
BioConsortia, Inc. has moved two new nematicides into its development and registration phase following excellent field trial results in corn and other important food crops. The new products control nematode pests and increase crop yields. Plant parasitic nematodes are tiny, ubiquitous roundworms that feed from plants. They directly target roots of major production crops and prevent water and ...
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AgBiome Granted Multi-year Award to Discover Biological Solutions to Diseases Affecting Subsistence Crops of Sub-Saharan Africa
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded AgBiome a new multi-year grant, entitled “Broad-Spectrum Biological Control of Fungal Diseases,” which will fund the evaluation and development of lead, proprietary biological fungicides in the fields of African smallholder farmers. The aim of the project is to identify and validate biological fungicides to control one or more of ...
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Fish farming finds its way to land-locked Midwest
The latest of five generations who have worked the same ground in northeastern Nebraska, 52-year-old Scott Garwood, isn't growing corn or cattle - it's fish. Specifically, thousands of an Australian freshwater species called barramundi - often dubbed Asian sea bass because of its similar sweet, white flaky flesh - in large tanks inside a warehouse. With global consumption of seafood outpacing ...
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BioConsortia moves multiple products into registration phase
BioConsortia, a developer of microbial solutions for plant trait enhancement and yield improvement, has moved multiple new products into the registration phase. BioConsortia has a R&D platform for the discovery of beneficial microbes and a development model to produce agricultural products with superior efficacy and higher consistency in three areas of research: Biopesticides: a pipeline ...
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Insect-eating bats save global maize farmers €0.91 billion a year from crop damage
Insect-eating bats are estimated to be worth US$ 1 billion (€0.91 billion) a year to maize farmers around the world, a new study has revealed. Not only do bats reduce crop damage by eating adult corn earworm crop pests, they also suppress fungal infections in maize ears. Bats and their habitats need to be better protected for their ecological and economic contributions, say the study’s ...
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M&C Anderson Pullets Recognized for Environmental Excellence by USPOULTRY
M&C Anderson Pullets ofSioux Rapids, Iowa,was one of sixfarms across the United States to receive U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’sFamily Farm Environmental Excellence Award during the 2020International Production & Processing Expoin Atlanta. U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) sponsors the annual awards in recognition of exemplary environmental stewardship by family ...
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Chevrolet supports grassland preservation program
Chevrolet has become the first corporate participant in a public-private initiative that pays farmers not to convert natural prairie to large-scale agriculture, which would release gases that are warming the planet, officials said Monday. The automaker, a division of General Motors, said it has bought more than 39,000 metric tons of carbon credits from North Dakota ranchers in the prairie ...
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