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Pivot Bio Presents Abstracts on Breakthrough Technology at Research Conference

Agwired

The week-long event served as a platform for sharing research studies demonstrating the efficacy of Pivot Bio’s PROVEN ® 40 in enhancing nitrogen fixation in plants during critical growth phases, maintaining yield, and reducing environmental impacts – crucial metrics in today’s agricultural landscape.

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Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Cropaia

Sandy loams tend to produce smooth, well-shaped tubers, while clay-heavy soils increase the likelihood of misshapen tubers due to mechanical resistance. Ease of harvest: Sandy loam soils make harvest operations easier and reduce the risk of mechanical damage to tubers during lifting.

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Regenerative Food Certification: Gold Standard or Greenwashing?

Modern Farmer

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification. Kerston, however, insists that bad practices such as using synthetic fertilizer consistently show up in the data. “If

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Theyre as fertile as can be. flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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Start-Up Success: Switch Bioworks

World Agri-Tech

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. What is your value proposition? Be specific. What are your company’s recent key milestones? and internationally.

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Managing Dairy Slurry to Maximize Nutrient Capture

UnderstandingAg

Some farms have limited acres to apply manure and feel forced to apply at maximum regulatory rates to get the pits emptied. With the current high cost of synthetic fertilizers, and even supply chain disruptions, managing the manure resource properly becomes a critical farm task. And, “If a little is good, more should be better, right?”

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Understanding pH Part One:

UnderstandingAg

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. 2 Nitrogen Source Fertilizer Analysis (N-P-K) Lime Required (lb CaCO 3 /lb N) Anhydrous ammonia 82-0-0 1.8 Its much more complex than that. Urea 46-0-0 1.8