Cropaia

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Potassium and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Water use efficiency is defined as the ratio of biomass or yield produced per unit of water consumed. This mechanism helps plants retain more water during dry periods, improving overall WUE. Helps sustain photosynthesis and reduce stress-induced yield losses. Efficient irrigation (e.g.,

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Providing examples for promising agri-tech solutions in the current investment climate, Mark Brooks, Managing Partner at FMC Ventures, highlights the rapid growth of robotics start-ups: The pace and size of recent fundraises for mechanical and laser weeding start-ups like Carbon Robotics have been surprising.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. Utilizing certified seeds offers tangible benefits, such as increased yields—often by 10-15% compared to non-certified seed. Overwatering can lead to disease issues and reduce yield.

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Food Tank

JULY 28, 2023

When managed successfully, they believe that markets can yield many benefits including preserving biodiversity, empowering women, providing agency to consumers, and mitigating risks for farmers. Farmers markets do not just happen,” said Richard McCarthy, President of the World Farmers Markets Coalition during a plenary session.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Women have continued farming in small-scale and traditional systems that involve a lot of manual labor and require physical strength.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our current extractive and yield-driven approach—fueled in part by the Green Revolution—has come at a significant cost to our climate, soil, biodiversity, water, and even our long-term health. The urgency created by myriad crises cannot be overstated.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In Mexico, climate change has caused a decline in yields—including a 35 percent reduction in the bean crop while increasingly ferocious hurricanes have wiped out fruit crops. Backed by scientists, social movements, farmers and governments, agroecology is already providing solutions across the world.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The climate crisis could depress growth in global agricultural yields up to 30 percent by 2050, Codex Planetarius finds. The goal is to create a market mechanism to generate the funding needed to reduce key impacts in the global food systems while making it more sustainable and resilient.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

So, we metaphorically waged war against the weeds for about eight weeks, using mainly mechanical methods and also some hand weeding, not wanting to eliminate them, but to make sure that the crop predominated. If you are a carrot grower, the biggest challenge that needs to be overcome is weed control.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

BioLumic offers UV technology to trigger biological mechanisms that increase plant growth and yields, and recently announced a partnership with GroAlliance to utilize ultraviolet (UV) light seed treatment technology for corn and soybean seed production.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that. In addition, ammonium sulfate is broken down into sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ), a strong acid.

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Cropaia

APRIL 7, 2023

It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields. In addition to the challenges of measurement and verification, there may be limitations in the market for carbon credits, as well as potential issues with the fairness and equity of carbon pricing mechanisms.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

There are no mechanical interventions or engineering fixes that allow humans to replicate this process. In Part 2 of this series, we will investigate some tools and techniques for minimizing damage and yield loss from compaction while you work to build a healthy, resilient soil. We can beat compaction naturally when we “stick” with it.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Making a right decision is crucial in securing high yields and maximize farms profitability. Farm Management Software implemented in an agricultural operation leads to reduced expenses, increased yields, better yield quality, higher profitability and lower operational risk. But lets delve into details.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

Here, there are no electric pumps, plastic tanks, antibiotics, mechanical agitators, recirculated water, chemical additives or computer monitoring. Walker appreciates sustainability and historic novelty—and leverages both to market and tell the story of his trout—but he’s more concerned with the quality of product the method yields.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Oftentimes, companies seeking investment in technology that is at a pretty early stage are unclear how their systems can be integrated with existing automation and mechanization systems. Competitive advantage also extends beyond yield rates. However, that type of wand-waving does not work.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

The covering serves as both a protective layer against predators and adverse weather conditions, as well as a defense mechanism against some insecticides. Infestations on fruit trees can lead to reduced fruit quality and yield. and pear trees (Pyrus spp.) are highly vulnerable to woolly aphids. Rose Bushes Roses (Rosa spp.)

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 29, 2024

To achieve this, the coulter system is available in a hydraulic version (up to 70 kg coulter pressure) and a mechanical version (up to 45 kg coulter pressure). A hydraulic tramline mechanism can be added as an option. The Solitair MR is equipped with the maintenance-free OptiDisc coulter bar with row spacings of 12.5

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

They gather fresh chestnuts in the autumn, then, in a small building made of stone and chestnut wood that acts as a smoker, the chestnuts are preserved through desiccation by heat and smoke, and by burning the husks of the previous year’s yield.

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Cropaia

MARCH 14, 2023

Organisms like bacteria, fungi, and earthworms can help to stabilize soil aggregates through various mechanisms. Such mechanisms include secretion of polysaccharides that glue soil particles together, or formation organic matter that helps to bind soil particles together.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Mechanization is the primary reason why hedgerows have disappeared in North America,” says Jones. Our research shows that if you have flowering plants around fields, they attract pollinators and predators like ladybugs that are then exported into adjacent crops, resulting in increased yields and lower insecticide use.”

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. Rodents serve as mechanical and biological vectors for several diseases such as Cryptosporidium parvum , Salmonellosis , and Leptospirosis. (

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A review paper published last month by researchers working on the Rurban Revolution project surveyed previous studies and determined that on average, urban agricultural yields (including both outdoor and indoor growing operations) were on par or higher than those of typical farms. That requires human labor instead of a machine.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 30, 2023

Inherent Problems Even though we can see tremendous crop yields with high rates of slurry, this comes with some soil health issues, which may include soil surface crusting, collapsed soil aggregates, impaired water infiltration rates, mortality of soil invertebrates, and excessive soil phosphorus levels.

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Cropaia

APRIL 29, 2023

However, resistance to pesticides is a significant problem in agriculture, resulting in lower crop yields and increased pesticide use, which can have negative environmental and health impacts. link] [link] Modes of Action Modes of action refer to the mechanism by which a pesticide controls pests.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

It is an aquaponic-related growing technique for cultivating plants that utilize sand as a primary medium for mechanical filtration, biofilter, and crop-growing media. The main difference when compared to aquaponics is that it does not require separate mechanical and biofilters as the sand acts as both. Credit: Kiwa Farms.

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Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier. a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Their unique row-by-row hyper-controlled technology creates optimal growing conditions, produces more reliable results, and dramatically improves crop yields, in virtually any environment, and for even the most complex plants.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

and we see increased crop yields. It’s a “big savings for us … and we see increased crop yields. Co-digesters help keep food waste out of landfills and incinerators and reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers, yielding potentially significant GHG emissions reductions. It’s a “big savings for us.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Control mechanisms are also utilized to balance temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels in the grow facility and deliver the optimal combination of these factors for the specific crop or crops being grown. . #3: 3: Tailoring The Development Of Genetic Varieties Vindara argues that the difference is in the seeds.

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Farmbrite

APRIL 25, 2023

Introduction to crop irrigation systems Irrigation systems are an important part of growing crops, and they can be crucial when it comes to crop yields. With changing climate patterns and increasing water scarcity, farmers need to use water more efficiently to ensure maximum crop yield.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 14, 2023

Physical control A method of pest management that involves using physical barriers or mechanical methods to eliminate or reduce pest populations. By using yieldsApp, farmers can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their IPM program and make smarter crop management decisions, ultimately resulting in optimal crop yields.

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 1, 2023

The covering serves as both a protective layer against predators and adverse weather conditions, as well as a defense mechanism against some insecticides. Infestations on fruit trees can lead to reduced fruit quality and yield. and pear trees (Pyrus spp.) are highly vulnerable to woolly aphids. Rose Bushes Roses (Rosa spp.)

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Mitigation Methods Defensible Space Use targeted/prescribed grazing, beneficial fire, and mechanical methods to maintain vegetation buffers around sensitive structures, access roads, and containment areas. Consider installing windbreaks and hedgerows to help block airborne particles before they reach crops.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to Compson, “Organic certification provides a market mechanism for farmers to be rewarded and recognised for their positive efforts towards tackling the climate and ecological crisis.” Others do it so they can charge a higher price and make more profit. For most, it is a combination of the two.

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