KEY POINTS: Five years after acquiring the technology, Deere’s method of using machine vision and machine learning to identify individual plants will be tested on farms in summer 2021.The goal: ...
The white areas in this North Dakota field are not snow — they are areas with high salinity, which can ultimately cause low crop yields. Farming requires a high tolerance ...
A fertiliser program for potatoes growing in sandy soils must balance environmental risk with maximising returns. Coastal sands are naturally infertile and require higher rates of nutrients than loams. Efficient ...
With last year's harvest just off the field, it is also time to look at the coming growing season. An important part of the crop preparation is the fertilization plan. Naturally, the ...
To equip farmers with this critical knowledge, at the Isinya forum, farmers were taken through crop husbandry practices that guarantees high yields. Potato farming has traditionally been done in areas ...
A sequenced approach using a liquid nematicide with a new mode of action along with an existing granular product is the best strategy for tackling potato cyst nematode, according to trials ...
Two researchers at the University of Maine have partnered with a team of plant geneticists and breeders to develop tools which will help Maine scientists and farmers become more efficient ...
A database has been developed for nematode and fungus control within the European Best4soil network, of which WUR is also a part. The database makes scientific information about nematodes and soil ...
Much has been said and written about it in recent years, but experts expect that the ancient rain reel will disappear from the landscape in the coming years. Reason? The emergence of ...
Potato tubers are the result of the plant genetics and the environmental conditions in which they are grown. Potato varieties are selected carefully for tubers that have desirable appearance to ...
Pepsico UK has joined forces with British clean-tech firm CCm Technologies to reduce their carbon footprint by turning their potato waste into fertiliser.Using CCm Technologies’ innovative carbon-capture technology, potato peelings ...
A custom-built potato grading and washing solution from Tong Engineering has enabled a leading US potato processor to increase sizing potential of both dirty and washed crop, whilst maximizing efficiency ...
The smile, even if it’s subtle, rarely leaves its home directly below Ed Starkel’s snow-white mustache, which is somehow both bushy and immaculately groomed. He is a man who takes ...
As the holiday season gets closer, demand for Wisconsin potatoes is stronger than last year. “We have a good supply of Wisconsin red and gold potatoes from this year’s crop ...
In the current period, preventing the price increase in food prices and the full and effective use of production capacity will be a very serious test for the whole world.In ...
With the Calibrator Totz, Bogballe shows that precision agriculture is also their specialty. The Totz computer is aimed at farmers who want to use all disciplines within precision agriculture. Fully automatic calibration, ...
Ortofrutticola Parma has been operating a TOMRA sorting machine since 2008 on its potato selection line, where it has processed about 180,000 tons of the company’s flagship product every year. When ...
The first field inspection of seed potatoes is no longer indicative of viruses from the 2021 cultivation season. Seed potato growers are strongly divided about the importance of this, according to ...
Teralytic is a soil analytics company which enables farmers to grow more, using less product/enhancement/applications whilst reducing the environmental impact of agriculture. Teralytic’s wireless probe contains 26 sensors which provide the most detailed soil quality data available, reporting soil moisture, ...
Whether it is leaves or soils, the lab-in-a-box solution puts portable testing in hands of farmers and agrologists The METOS MobiLab provides soil and sap nutrient measurement in less than ...
Growers can lend a helping hand to soil life in favor of the crop. With the combination of crop plan, green manures, soil tillage and control on a C: N ratio, ...
If you talk to a group of potato growers, one issue is almost certain to come up: how to find seed potatoes free of disease. The U.S. potato seed industry ...
The two are set to bring the industry one step closer to autonomy and refined sustainable practices by homing in on the pivot market. Leading irrigation intelligence software company Manna, ...
Control. Efficiency. Sustainability. Technology. All are shaping the future of production agriculture. With low margins, shrinking water resources and increasing regulation, the future is, in fact, here.This combination of forces ...
It had been several years since the Huron ravine, which ends in Costa Teguise, had been seen running, running as it did in the early afternoon yesterday. It only took ...