Agric4profits

MARCH 22, 2025

Tillage is the mechanical manipulation of soil to provide favorable conditions for crop growth or production. This can be achieved by the use of certain specialized machines or implements.

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Agri-tech

JANUARY 29, 2024

If we can unravel the mechanisms underlying the shapes of leaves, petals, or the complex reproductive parts of plants, then it may be possible to fine tune this physiology to make our crops. For plants, the symmetrical shapes of organs are a matter of survival because the form directly impacts the function.

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Agric4profits

APRIL 1, 2025

In consequence, manual clearing should be preferred to mechanical deforestation because bulldozers always remove topsoil with the important organic matter and compact the remaining soil. When… Read More » Methods of Field Preparation for Plantain Farming

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

Kent has you covered: To begin with, we have been able to set up fully functional mechanisms out of the text of the Treaty. We have established a multilateral system for access and benefit-sharing, which is like the global pool of genetic material and seeds that facilitates the breeding of new varieties of crops, and it has enabled over 6.9

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), Crop diversity has decreased by 75% since 1950. and various production technologies.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. Processing the crops in the Delta would funnel even more money into the regional economy. For years, a few people in the region have preached the gospel of specialty crops. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi. food system more resilient.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This process is particularly crucial in leguminous crops such as soybeans, peas, and alfalfa, which heavily rely on molybdenum for efficient nitrogen fixation. This antagonistic effect of sulfur on molybdenum uptake can result in impaired nitrogen fixation in leguminous crops and other metabolic imbalances in plants.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. in some spots.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Precision agriculture has enabled unprecedented fine-tuning of crop management from variable-rate fertilization to micro-zone irrigation. What looks like precision quickly turns into pseudo-precision – a detailed map that appears sophisticated but delivers little or no improvement in crop performance.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Providing examples for promising agri-tech solutions in the current investment climate, Mark Brooks, Managing Partner at FMC Ventures, highlights the rapid growth of robotics start-ups: The pace and size of recent fundraises for mechanical and laser weeding start-ups like Carbon Robotics have been surprising.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

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NASDA

MAY 24, 2024

There are many nutritious crops vulnerable to this issue in many growing regions of this country, and while understanding every crop in every growing region of concern is not practical, an effective triage plan could identify the most critical crops to conduct research on and for which regions of the country they are grown.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We wanted to stop the fires and decided to introduce crops that would help us do so,” Garcia Martinez remembers. “We Just like Indigenous people in Oaxaca, and beyond, grow their main crops—corn, beans, and zucchini together on one plot called milpa —they often do the same with other plants, including vanilla. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area. This way, soils store more organic carbon especially when cover crops are combined with no-till management.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

I want to grow crops that are calorie- and nutrient-dense, and store well, like beans, winter squash, sweet potatoes, and dent cornbut these require a lot of land. With these crops in mind, my farming partner and I have started the journey to transition part of our land to tractor farming.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Industrial agriculture refers to the large-scale, mechanized production of crops and livestock, employing modern technology and techniques to maximize efficiency.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harvesting salad greens can be a slow and labor-intensive process. With recent innovations that include the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester and the Baby Greens Harvester (a scaled up option not shown in this video) by Terrateck, small farms can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of their harvest.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity. Let me give an example.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This is yet another reason to prioritize diversity of species in cash crop rotations, cover crop mixes and pasture composition.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Scientists say that two-thirds of global food production is based on just nine crop species, so it’s in the interest of global food security to identify other reliable food sources that can perform well in changing climatic conditions. They published their work in The Plant Biotechnology.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2024

These fungi form a symbiotic relationship with the roots of many crops, a relationship that is especially valuable for improving phosphate uptake. This direct transfer mechanism bypasses the soil solution, which can be inefficient due to the binding of phosphate to soil particles.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction to crop irrigation systems Irrigation systems are an important part of growing crops, and they can be crucial when it comes to crop yields. Without proper irrigation, many crops would not be able to grow at all. Drip irrigation Drip irrigation is one the most popular types of crop irrigation systems.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

We often hear about vertical farms using water sustainably, 95% less than traditional open field harvesting, to provide superior tasting crops. The key here is the freshness of the crops. This time saved in travel is also nutritional value preserved in the crops.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. The field had an overwintering cover crop in 2021 and was planted no-till in 2022. Due to an equipment breakdown, there was no overwintering cover crop planted in the fall of 2022 and it was tilled in the spring of 2023.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Therefore, improving WUE is critical for sustainable crop production, especially in water-scarce environments. This mechanism helps plants retain more water during dry periods, improving overall WUE. Potassium influences WUE through Photosynthesis optimization, reduced non-stomatal water loss, and improved drought recovery.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At Berry Patch Farm in Central Iowa, three consecutive years of drought plus water restrictions led to crop failure that left the U-pick operation struggling. They invested in a mechanical harvester a few years ago. “In The farm added flowers and a few other last-minute crops for people to enjoy.

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Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

Farmers have long used Bt as a spray to kill pests but the Bt toxins in GM crops are different from this natural Bt in structure, function, and biological effects. To add to these results, a number of animal feeding trials also find that Bt toxins and GM Bt crops could have toxic effects on mammals.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as a cover crop, sharing what he’s learned with a crowd of 20 farmers, textile artists, designers, and educators. Other parts of the crop are used for rope, paper, mulch, and animal bedding. Growers hope other states will follow with that designation.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, it advocates for more capital-intensive automation and mechanization in line with the longstanding “bigger is better” agriculture policy of the past fifty years. He found that the cover crop method increased active carbon in the soil — a key indicator of soil health and regeneration potential.

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Agwired

JANUARY 13, 2025

This combination will provide California growers remarkable disease control from nine powerful mechanisms of activity, with only one MRL. Regev is approved for use on a broad number of crops, including grapes, almonds, brassica leafy vegetables, fruiting vegetables and berries.

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Cropaia

APRIL 7, 2023

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields. Such techniques aim to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The entire production chain of the feedstuffs going into modern confinement dairies and feedlots involves the burning of fossil fuels to produce the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides necessary for large-scale, mono-crop, industrial production of corn and soy. follow the laws of thermodynamics, and B.)

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

BioLumic offers UV technology to trigger biological mechanisms that increase plant growth and yields, and recently announced a partnership with GroAlliance to utilize ultraviolet (UV) light seed treatment technology for corn and soybean seed production. “BioLumic works across twelve crops,” said Sibulkin.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Record Any Issues: Use video or add notes to record any unusual noises, vibrations, or leaks for reference or when consulting mechanics. Clean Equipment Thoroughly Before storing, clean your equipment thoroughly to remove dirt, mud, crop residue, and any chemical residues. Store this with your vehicle maintenance records.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

For example, it can assist in monitoring crops, optimizing irrigation, and even predicting weather patterns to make farming more efficient and productive. After the shift to mechanized milking, farmers quickly adopted other technologies, like smart collars, activity trackers, and ear tag sensors. AI and agriculture are a powerful duo.

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