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Free Webinar: Optimizing Soil Health by Managing Nutrients
With today's challenges, it's becoming increasingly important to practice land stewardship, protect water quality, and ensure food security. Maintaining soil health is crucial for increased crop productivity, preventing nutrient runoff, and decreasing costs of crop inputs. One of the first steps in managing soil health is knowing current nutrient levels in the soil. During this free webinar, ...
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Technika Introduces Digital Soil Moisture Pen
Probe your soil (or similar material) with the simple-to-use Digital Soil Moisture Pen – LUPMS714. The pen has a large 1.25” digital display that enables highly accurate, high resolution readings. It also features a hold and min-max function, and indicates when the batteries need to be replaced. The Digital Soil Moisture Pen comes in a portable and durable water resistant ABS-plastic housing. ...
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Fantastic day at Technova in Spain, proving Integrate is the best water saving technology in the world
The surfactant Integrate by Agroliner Engage will save up to 50% water On the 25 September, the Tecnova building in the PITA of Almeria, filled with professionals who wanted to know the results of tests conducted in this technological center with a unique product like Integrate, a surfactant patented by Engage Agro and distributed by the almeriense Agroliner, with which it is achieved to ...
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Soil moisture monitoring for better irrigation and crop nutrition in Cucumbers
Soil moisture monitoring is often thought of as a water saving technology. While this is true, there are other significant benefits from soil moisture monitoring. Crop nutrition is intrinsically linked to crop irrigation. Many nutrients move quickly with water or only move through plants when water is available. Nitrogen (N) is released in water and too much irrigation can result in nitrogen ...
By Wildeye
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IAgrE Fellow & CEnv Jane Rickson Honoured
Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) Fellow and Chartered Environmentalist Professor Jane Rickson wins a 2021 Top 50 Women in Engineering Award. IAgrE Fellow Jane Rickson, Professor of Soil Erosion and Conservation at Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield University, has been honoured with a Top 50 Women in Engineering Award from the Women’s Engineering Society. The ...
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Iowa’s Corn Farmers Celebrate Soil & Water Conservation Week
Iowa has 71,665 miles of streams and more than 11,000 different types of soil. Both resources are precious to the productivity of our state. Farmers celebrate soil and water every day but, Soil and Water Conservation Week April 28 to May 2, is a good time to recognize Iowa’s innovations to conserve both soil and water resources. “We haven’t reached perfection, yet” said ...
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Crop water use efficiency
Crop water use efficiency (WUE), or yield per unit of water used, can be improved through irrigation management and methods, including deficit irrigation (irrigating less than is required for maximum yields) and supplemental irrigation (irrigating to supplement precipitation so as to avoid crop failure or severe yield decline). Thus, WUE is key for agricultural production with limited water ...
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Measuring calcium in serpentine soils
Serpentine soils contain highly variable amounts of calcium, making them marginal lands for farming. Successful management of serpentine soils requires accurate measurement of the calcium they hold. Research published this month in the Soil Science Society of America Journal shows that multiple measurement techniques are needed to accurately measure calcium content in serpentine soils. To make ...
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Rhododendrons and how to use Oenosan
Transplanting Rhododendrons and Oenosan The name rhododendron is related to the antique Greek language ??δον (rhódon) = “rose”; δ?νδρον (dendron) = “tree”. It produces beautiful long lasting flowers providing that you select the correct soil and environment. Plant your ‘rhodo’ ...
By Oenosan
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UF/IFAS avocado irrigation app should save money, water
Avocado growers now know that a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences mobile irrigation app works well to save money while maintaining crop yields. This data, reported in a new study, is critical for an industry that has a $100 million a year economic impact on Florida. It’s also important because agriculture uses about 70 percent of the world’s water, the ...
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CAP post 2013 - last call for sustainability?
On September 23rd an informal Agriculture Council meeting will be held in Annecy, dedicated to the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013. BirdLife International, EEB and Pesticide Action Network warned Ministers that the issue of food and energy security - and prices - can only be addressed effectively through a new model of agriculture that emits less greenhouse gases, ...
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Asia–Pacific Analysis: Launching a second Green Revolution
Feeding South-East Asia's rapidly growing population requires a second Green Revolution, says Crispin Maslog. The Day of Seven Billion was proclaimed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on 31 October 2011 as a historic milestone — the day the world's population reached seven billion people. And the world is on a steep growth curve for the rest of this century. More than half ...
By SciDev.Net
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Super absorbent technology for horticulture on display in Essen
In January, UK-based Super Absorbent Fibre (SAF) manufacturer Technical Absorbents (TAL) will join over 1500 exhibitors at international trade fair for plants (IPM Essen) as it displays an array of innovative fibre and fabric technologies from its Agrotas product range that aid efficient water management. IPM Essen is the world’s leading trade fair for horticulture. It is the only ...
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Study shows potential for sweetpotato production in Pacific Northwest
Sweetpotato, a warm-season root crop grown across the world, needs heat and humidity to flourish. In the United States, commercial sweetpotato production occurs predominantly in the southeastern states and California, while production farther north is limited. Recently, Oregon State University researchers discovered cultural practices that could help to increase sweetpotato production in the ...
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Alterra and partners to demonstrate the use of brackish water for potato cultivation in Egypt
A consortium led by Alterra has recently started a project called “Salt TOlerant Potatoes improve water and food security - STOP”. Together with our partners we will extend and test the existing Dacom soil moisture monitoring system with a new salinity sensor. Use of this advisory system will prevent both crop drought and salinity stress, while minimizing water losses. It will enable ...
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Workshop Discusses Whether Agriculture Can Significantly Reduce Off-Site Movement of Soluble Nutrients
Growers who plant cover crops and vegetative systems in agriculture will find that it can tie up phosphorus in a stable phosphorus form that remains in the soil which can increase phosphorus use efficiency, according to a soil researcher from Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. The question of whether agriculture can significantly reduce off-site ...
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Produce Safety Rule to Change the Way Fresh Fruit, Vegetables Are Grown and Handled
Ever since the Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law in January 2011 and the act’s Produce Safety Rule was proposed two years later, fruit and vegetable growers have waited for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to finalize the regulations they will be expected to follow on the farm. Now that the FDA has done so — the final Produce Safety rule was printed in the ...
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GM crops can thrive as climate warms
Genetically engineering photosynthesis in plants could take advantage of rising global temperatures and increased levels of carbon dioxide, US scientists say. They believe this could achieve much higher yields on the same amount of land and help to stave off the prospect of widespread hunger as human populations increase. Researchers at the University of Illinois report in the journal ...
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