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Pivot Bio Presents Abstracts on Breakthrough Technology at Research Conference

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).

Technology

Technology Soil Science Science Mechanics

The Sustainable Soil-ution Beneath Your Feet

Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

Compost

Compost Fertilizer Crop Food

Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

Grain

Grain Farming Farming Food

DPH Biologicals and UIUC Partner to Manage Crop Residue

Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

First-year results were unveiled this week by UIUC graduate student Darby Danzl at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting , held jointly by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America.

Crop

Crop Soil Science Science Technology

Our Agronomist Bestows Helpful Growing Tips

Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (TNAU, Coimbatore INDIA) Hi, this is Dr. Marco Thiruselvam with Green Wave Products and I am going to talk about growing tips with AgriPOWER HGDF. Before I get into the actual usage tips, I would like to cover some basics on plants’ need for fertilizer.

Fertilizer

Fertilizer Production Soil Science Yield

Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Nov. 16

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We can no longer clear all the trees, cannot allow our soils to degrade, cannot fertilize without care.” Powerful Quotes From Recent Discussions “The soil health in a place determines the health of the people that live there. The soil health is a perfect mirror of the people. We can no longer take food for granted.

Finance

Finance Food Agroecology Agriculture

Back to School with Nice Roots Farm: Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System

Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. Seeds, fertilizer, farmed animals, trucks used for transportation, packaging operations and grocery stores are all parts of our food system. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

Food

Food Farming Farming Soil Science

Start-Up Journeys after World Agri-Tech

World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal. Nitricity has hit multiple significant milestones.

Production

Production Science Acre Soil Science

The Top 10 Careers in Agriculture

Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agricultural engineers must be skilled in soil science, physics and chemistry as well as computer modeling techniques. They may also be involved in planning and implementing food processing facilities, ensuring that crops meet certain chemical requirements, or developing new technologies for farming equipment.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Science Livestock

This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. billion in 2012 to $51.7

Pesticide

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture

Closing the Loop on Poop

Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Lessons From Mushers and Others Composting is the controlled breakdown of organic matter into humus, a rich soil amendment many prefer over chemical fertilizers. Mississauga, Ontario, which in 2019 began processing dog poop at waste-to-energy facilities, turns some into fertilizer.

Compost

Compost Manure Processing Fertilizer

Producing the Perfect Potato and Soil Health to Handle Environmental Stress—The Perry Farm—Chin, Alberta

RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. They produce over 18,000 tonnes of pathogen free organic fertilizer. “We We can fertilize between two to three fields with 10,000 gallons of the byproduct, which is rich in nutrients,” explains Harry.

Farming

Farming Farming Crop Manure

Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Then one day in 1995, while packing his cattle into a double-decker semi-truck bound for a slaughterhouse several states away, he recalls that something suddenly felt wrong.