Search Result for 'agronomist'

While crop protection products play an important role in vegetable production, poor spray application techniques can lead to ineffective pest control, yield reduction, wasted product and lower returns to the grower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwO6qEM-Vs&feature=youtu.be ...

Farmers who want to keep marestail and other winter annuals like henbit and purple dead nettle from overrunning their 2021 fields can get a head start this fall.  “Marestail is much easier ...

The Bender clan are potato people. From raising tubers especially for potato chips to the everyday table spud, they are experts in growing America’s most popular root vegetable. Given that, it should ...

Herbicide-resistant weeds are being cast into the spotlight, thanks to a Charles Sturt University-led national survey. Backed by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, the survey is encouraging farmers from Australian grain ...

BOONE, Iowa — Data collected from personal information has been called one of the most valuable commodities in the world. With the advent of precision agriculture and advances in farm equipment technology, ...

Andy Robinson Assistant Professor, Extension Potato Agronomist North Dakota State University and University of MinnesotaHarlene Hatterman-Valenti Associate Professor, High Value Crop Production North Dakota State University Potatoes can have reduced yield and ...

Campaign Check uninspiring for producers of potatoes and onions in Emilia-Romagna, conditioned by producer prices which are positioning themselves at very low levels. The tuber collections are practically completed in all the main areas of the Region, while those ...

To help tackle the challenge of sustainable food production, we are developing a digital agronomy system that aims to increase the precision with which agro-chemicals are applied. The tool we are developing ...

Potato growers are at risk of virus and disease threat if they do not follow an integrated approach to new desiccation regimes, say experts working on the third year of desiccation trials ...

Bill Watts has joined AHDB as Arable Knowledge Exchange Manager (Potatoes) for the West Midlands, South West and Wales. Having recently completed his PhD, Bill has extensive research experience in crop management ...

Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World Potato Congress (WPC) and the 28th Congress of the Latin American Potato ...

Resson, a predictive analytics company for the agricultural industry, has announced a $14 million Series C up round of financing that welcomed Mahindra & Mahindra as a strategic partner. The Indian conglomerate ...

Potatoes may, in many ways, be the perfect candidate for precision agriculture.They’re a high-volume, high-value and high-input crop and the industry has already invested more than other sectors in soil and drainage ...

Today, a new potato processing plant was officially opened in Lipetsk by Ivan Lebedev, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, and by Oleg Korolev, head of the ...

The weather has not been kind to potato growers in the United Kingdom. AHDB potatoes offers some helpful tips and guidance to make it a successful potato growing season nevertheless. Patience Claire ...

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm will host the first Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon on August 18 -19, where leading technological companies will demonstrate unmanned aircraft systems, featuring advanced crop sensors and ...