Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The few farmers who planted pearl millet, finger millet, or sorghum had better yields. Improvements in technology have also made a difference for farmers, processors, and food manufacturers,” she says. . “Last summer season, we experienced the worst drought ever. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. The seedballs contain a dense powerhouse of nutrients and protective elements that give the enclosed seeds a greater chance to flourish in a challenging climate. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2025

It is applied as a seed treatment as well as in-furrow, drip or sub irrigation. According to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) , U.S. Stine Seed Company is proud to announce the launch of its new lineup of soybean blends. The active ingredient is Trichoderma atroviride strain K5.

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

PPNs are roundworms that feed on the roots of plants, sapping the plants’ energy and reducing yield. The pheromone mixture will be used for seed treatments, in-furrow applications, or in irrigation water to protect plant roots from infection.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Cheap and easy to make, it’s still the fastest-growing group of fibers used to manufacture garments. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. What’s the solution? Cotton, the most used natural fiber, occupies 2.4

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The shoots come from plant scientist Sathish Ponniahs lab, which certifies them to be free of yield-depressing viruses. It had giant combines, chemicals stored in one-ton plastic tanks, and a 12-row planter drilling rice seeds into a field by an oxbow lake. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For one, USDA is leveraging its funding and research capacity, as well as interagency partnerships, to increase transparency and improve researcher access to seed germplasm, the starting materials plant breeders need to create diverse, resilient, and competitive seed varieties. 31 and takes about 15 minutes to complete.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The data can be visualised and used to create maps for variable rate application of seeding, fertigation, and irrigation, and harvest yield maps can be added for planning future seasons. In addition, users can import data from the world's most popular agricultural machinery brands, of which CLAAS is the latest.

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Agwired

MARCH 27, 2024

In a move to bolster safety by users of off-highway equipment in the agriculture, construction, utility, forestry and mining industries, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) introduces a free online safety toolkit tailored to promote safety awareness, education, and training for operators of the equipment.

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Agwired

MARCH 6, 2024

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) presented the seventh-annual Davidson Prize to the top three innovative products, selected from the AE50 honorees on Friday, March 1, at Commodity Classic in Houston, TX. The new versatile solution received U.S.

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Agwired

APRIL 17, 2024

Biolevel and My Yield announced that My Yield will distribute Biolevel bionutrition products for use in My Yield’s customized treatment solutions. The partnership expands the availability of Biolevel products to farmers and seed dealers across the U.S. March sales jumped 3.2 percent compared to 2023. Tractors are down 13.3

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Agwired

AUGUST 15, 2024

percent year-to-date according to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). Registration for 2024 the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) Field Crop Seed Convention is open! sales of 4-wheel-drive tractors increased 18.6 percent in July 2024 compared to the year before and are up 5.2 bushels per acre.

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Agwired

AUGUST 21, 2024

Scouts are traveling across the Corn Belt to measure this year’s corn and soybean yield potential during the 32nd annual Pro Farmer Crop Tour. Beck’s and the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) announce the election of Scott Beck as the central regional vice president. The tour runs Aug.19-22,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. A fast-growing and high-yield plant, hemp suppresses weeds, thrives without fertilizer and pesticides, and requires less water than many other crops.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 24, 2023

Phosphate rock is a popular material for the manufacturing of this fertiliser. Phosphorus is responsible for this, and it also allows for better seed growth. In addition, another inorganic type for fertilising plants is phosphorus fertiliser. This is responsible for cell growth and expansion.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Agwired

APRIL 25, 2024

The ASTA Leadership Summit , held this June 15-19 in Nashville, provides a crucial opportunity for mid- to senior-level seed company leadership. Register today!

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Agwired

MARCH 14, 2024

according to new data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. Newly released third-party data from the 2023 growing season is showcasing unprecedented yield increases in row and specialty crops across the United States. Unit sales of 100+ horsepower ag tractors increased slightly in February 2024 in the U.S.,

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Agwired

AUGUST 16, 2023

As harvest begins across the country, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) reminds farmers about the importance of taking the appropriate precautions to ensure treated seed does not enter the grain supply. To learn more, visit: seed-treatment-guide.com. To learn more, visit: seed-treatment-guide.com.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

during the first month of 2024, according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). This revolutionary concave system sets a new standard in harvesting efficiency and yield optimization, providing farmers with unprecedented performance and profitability. In the U.S., a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd.,

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

turned positive for the first time in 2023, led by continued strength in large tractors and combines according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). But in both scenarios, the Syngenta Cleaner & Greener fungicide portfolio still showed excellent performance and improved yields over untreated acres.

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Agwired

MARCH 28, 2025

Reinke Manufacturing , a global leader in irrigation systems and technology, today announced the general availability of its most advanced remote irrigation management solution to date, ReinCloud 3 , to drive operational savings and yield increases for growers tasked with managing water efficiency. Sakata Seed America, Inc.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

In other words, bigger is better and yield is king. In 2021, we were awarded a grant to work with Czech farmers on ways to combine Internet of Things technologies (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help hop farmers adapt to climate-related volatility in yields and quality.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. One stop showed off a soybean yield trial. It’s kind of a win-win: Get a farmer in the program, get the information, and get to sell them seeds or pest control.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their use has helped Plantix’s AI grow more accurate while collecting information that could prove invaluable to crop buyers, seed sellers, tool manufacturers, loan lenders, insurance providers, and pesticide sellers. During pitches, Strey told me, she saw how investors lit up at just the mention of data. “[The

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But the myth has never been aimed at farmers, who aren’t particularly susceptible to it anyway: It doesn’t help them pay for seed and fertilizer, it doesn’t help them pay workers, it doesn’t help them heat curing barns, it doesn’t help them get a good price from the companies that have locked them into contracts.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

BASF is introducing xarvio SeedSelect, a novel seed variety placement technology based on an algorithm derived from plot trial field research, local topographic and soil attributes, and variety-specific yield building characteristics. Unit sales of 4WD ag tractors continued growing in both the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

In this open-access e-book, Kathryn Barr looks at The Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan as a model that yields economic and cultural benefits and contributes to the resilience of producers and their communities. And throughout the book, Kelly underscores the effects of policy on traditional life and resource conservation.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Rob-See-Co , an independent seed company located in Elkhorn, Neb. and Canada declined in August, according to the latest data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The soybean cyst nematode (SCN) can be a similar drain on your finances, flying under the radar and chipping away yield potential as years pass.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds. As a result of this tech boom, yields the amount of corn and soybeans produced per acre increased steadily.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 24, 2025

Rollins recent pick for chief of staff, Kailee Tkacz Buller, was most recently the CEO of the National Oilseed Processors Association, a trade association representing seed oil manufacturers. Seed oils are also one of the most frequent targets of ire for Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement followers.

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Agwired

MARCH 5, 2025

American Seed Trade Association President & CEO Andy LaVigne issued a statement on the news of additional tariffs imposed between the United States and its trading partners. This award is a collaboration between ASABE and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers to recognize outstanding achievements in agricultural engineering.

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