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Rescuing Kelp Through Science

Civil Eats

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science—and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. The yield is an average of 4 pounds of mature kelp per foot, which nets about 50 cents a pound, according to Lindell. “I

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The Illusion of Precision in Agriculture: Are We Managing Fields or Chasing Noise?

Cropaia

Precision agriculture has enabled unprecedented fine-tuning of crop management from variable-rate fertilization to micro-zone irrigation. This phenomenon is comparable to overfitting in data science, where a model becomes so tailored to the data that it ends up responding to noise rather than meaningful patterns.

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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. Soil Health : Advanced soil sensors can measure critical factors like moisture levels, pH balance, and nutrient content, enabling farmers to fine-tune fertilizer use.

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AgZen Raises $10M in Series A Funding to Enable Feedback Optimized Agriculture

World Agri-Tech

Maximizing yield at minimal input cost is an existential problem in agriculture. Less than 10% of pesticides and 33% of critical fertilizers used in farms actively contribute to crop protection and yield. As exciting as that is, we are more excited about how we can revolutionize the ag inputs industry.

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Pivot Bio Presents Abstracts on Breakthrough Technology at Research Conference

Agwired

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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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. She frames Celiac as an often-invisible disability, and disability itself as a social and political issue that cannot be addressed through science alone.

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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. The reasons vary, but common culprits include excessive N fertilizer use and the loss of organic matter. of new cropland areas produced yields below the national average, with a mean yield deficit of 6.5%.

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