Western FarmPress

JUNE 17, 2024

Getting young people excited about diesel mechanics is one step to refill the pipeline, but other challenges persist.

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Mechanics 98

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Research in New York targets orchard mechanization for cider-makers.

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Mechanics Orchard 98

AgWeb Farm Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2023

8 Lessons Learned As a Farm Mechanic on a Sunny Fall Day apiuser Fri, 10/13/2023 - 12:48

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Global Agtech Initiative

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The post FarmWise Thrusts AI Into Spotlight With Mechanical Weed Management appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. FarmWise CEO Tjarko Leifer shares more about the company’s commercial agreement with RDO and future growth plans.

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Mechanics Marketing Farming Farming 99

AgWeb Farm Journal

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the case of this photo, the damage is obvious while the mind is left to wonder what the mechanic on his cell phone is saying to the person on the other end. They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Mechanics 112

Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The mechanisms of absorption of nutrient ions into the root cells continue to be a subject of research by plant nutritionists. Nutrients move into the cortex

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Mechanics Agriculture Agriculture 96

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Farmers Weekly Creating an autonomous vehicle for farm fieldwork is a relatively straightforward task from a mechanical engineering perspective. Choose a powertrain suited to the vehicle’s intended applications, decide between tracks and wheels, and build a chassis to accommodate it all.

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Manufacturing Tractor Mechanics Farming 279

Agwired

JULY 23, 2024

In November 2023, the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute announced a new USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Irrigation and Mechanization Systems (ILIMS).

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Agri-tech

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Epigenetic silencing, which involves the suppression of gene activity, is a fascinating and increasingly influential branch of biological sciences. It allows cells to remember and maintain specific gene expression patterns throughout development and respond to environmental cues such as winter cold in the case of vernalization in plants.

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Mechanics Science 134

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mechanics who once charged $60 an hour now charge $95. Since then, many of his expenses have doubled or tripled. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Peter says, his costs soared, and they still haven’t come down. Fuel-tank fittings that cost him about $2,000 in 2014 now run $13,000.

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Mechanics Tractor Food Farming 189

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

See also: Video: Mechanical […] The post Natural bioherbicides show promise in tackling weeds appeared first on Farmers Weekly That’s what a US-based start-up company, Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions, is hoping as it develops natural bioherbicides based on plant extracts, primarily from the menthus or mint family.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Company demonstrated its new line in a romaine field at FIRA-USA ag robotics event.

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Mechanics 121

Food Politics

MARCH 21, 2025

It provides an easy mechanism for immediate feedback. The United Nations has issued a digital Food Systems Thinking Guide for UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams with tools and information for working collectively towards food system transformation. It is intended as a working draft. You have to do a lot of scrolling.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2023

But with costs for used equipment higher than ever, expectations for its appearance and mechanical condition are, rightly, far higher. Farmers Weekly When second-hand machinery comes with a bargainous price tag, one can overlook the odd ding, oil leak or patch of flaky paint.

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Mechanics Agriculture Agriculture 217

Agric4profits

AUGUST 2, 2024

Plant growth is a process that is highly relevant in a range of contexts. The ability of an individual plant to grow and achieve a certain size in a given envir

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Mechanics Processing Agriculture Agriculture 97

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Farmers Weekly A consortium of German farmers and mechanical engineers has developed a novel low-disturbance mechanical weed killer as part of its 2019-launched 4Disc business. The ActiCut has three banks of sharp-edged and ultra-flat 350mm horizontal discs designed to work between 10mm and 120mm deep.

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Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Fixed action patterns are invariant and are produced by a neural network known as the innate releasing mechanism. In ethology, a fixed action pattern (FAP) is an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion.

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Mechanics 87

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

You’ll remember that … [h]istorically, parties have been divided between creating a subscription-only system of payment upon registration, and maintaining a single-access option along the lines of the benefit-sharing payments under the current SMTA.

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Mechanics Production 202

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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Mechanics Farming Farming Seeding 60

Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a sustainable approach to managing pests that threaten agricultural productivity. It combines various strategies and

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Mechanics Production Agriculture Agriculture 105

Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Insurance, an effective mechanism of transferring large risks to someone else, has been in use in developed countries for more than one hundred years.

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Agriculture Agriculture Mechanics Finance 71

Agric4profits

JULY 7, 2023

Animals living in different ecologies of the world have for several decades and for every moment of the day developed means for coping with their environment as

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Mechanics Ecology Production Agriculture 96

Agric4profits

MARCH 11, 2025

These sediments act as repositories of valuable historical information, shedding light on transport mechanisms… Read More » Understanding the Connection Between Paleolimnology, Sediments, and Agriculture

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Agriculture Agriculture Mechanics 64

Food Politics

MAY 8, 2024

The nuts are removed from the tree using a mechanical shaker, a machine that grasps the trunk and shakes the whole tree. Whatever it did, the company should have been following a food safety plan mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act, which requires prevention controls and testing to make sure things like this donn’t happen.

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Harvest Harvester Harvesting Food 278

Far Eastern Agriculture

MARCH 24, 2025

This technology sprays directly onto the undersides of the agitator blades while ensuring that the agitator mechanics remain unaffected. The mechanically powerful full-cone spray targets the undersides of the agitators and efficiently removes residues. This is where the Direct Sprayer DS 25 comes into picture.

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Beverage Mechanics Technology Production 59

Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

coli] can survive in the air and that dust can act as a transfer mechanism for both pathogens and indicator organisms (e.g. For example, there is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) with more than 80,000 head of cattle and an associated compost operation in proximity to some of the produce production areas studied. [ generic E.

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Compost Mechanics Food Production 299

Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Objectives A project has a set of… Read More » Characteristics of an Agricultural Project

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Agriculture Agriculture Mechanics 66

Agri-tech

AUGUST 23, 2024

Less is known about how these biological timing mechanisms operate in the more unpredictable natural world where they evolved to align living things to daily and seasonal cycles. Much of what we know about plant circadian rhythms is the result of laboratory experiments where inputs such as light and temperature can be tightly controlled.

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Mechanics 133

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Data collection and sharing mechanisms to track the progress and impact of diversification initiatives can be used to refine strategies and measure success. Fostering collaboration between governments, research institutions, NGOs, and private sector actors will help create a comprehensive support ecosystem for diversification efforts.

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Food Crop Marketing Production 141

Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Biological clocks are internal mechanisms within animals that influence their physiology and behavior, synchronizing them with cyclic changes in the environment. These clocks operate on various time periods, such as several hours, a day, or even a year. The circadian clock runs on a cycle of approximately 24 hours.

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Mechanics Agriculture Agriculture 59

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. Humans are attracted to symmetry: in our buildings, our gardens, in our potential partners.

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Mechanics Crop 140

Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 27, 2024

The initiative empowers farmers to integrate microbial fertilizers, organic matter, biological pest control, mechanized harvesting, and efficient water use to enhance soil health. The post Biome Makers Partners in Groundbreaking Sugarcane Sustainability Initiative appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 29, 2024

From mechanical swarm robots to autonomous sprayers, these machines might be what the future looks like.

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Mechanics Farming Farming 105

AgriLife Today

APRIL 10, 2024

New study details long-sought mechanisms and structures Bacterial infections pose significant challenges to agriculture and medicine, especially as cases of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to rise.

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Mechanics Agriculture Agriculture Science 130

Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Demand and supply are fundamental elements of the market mechanism in agricultural marketing. They determine both the price structure and the movements in a free market. Demand is not merely the desire to possess a product but also the ability to afford it.

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Marketing Agriculture Agriculture Mechanics 52

Agri-tech

JULY 6, 2023

A discovery first made in plants has inspired an important insight into the mechanism by which the malaria parasite can infect humans and animals. The research, a collaboration between Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagasaki University, and the John Innes Centre, offers a future target for malaria drug discovery.

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Mechanics Technology 52

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. As the International Plant Treaty celebrates its 20th birthday , here’s a nice interview with the current Secretary, Kent Nnadozie. Want a quick summary of the Treaty’s achievements?

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