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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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DPH Biologicals and UIUC Partner to Manage Crop Residue

Agwired

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.

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Young Farmers Dig Into Land

Modern Farmer

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. Their efforts have yielded varying degrees of success.

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Our Agronomist Bestows Helpful Growing Tips

Agriculture for Life

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.

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The Top 10 Careers in Agriculture

Farmbrite

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.

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

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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

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Closing the Loop on Poop

Modern Farmer

Unlike wildlife scat , which spreads seeds and returns nature’s nutrients in a balanced way, most conventional pet diets yield large amounts of waste. Mingchu Zhang, professor of soil science and agronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, cautions in an email about infectious organisms in dog poop that might survive composting.

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