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Potato growers on P.E.I. are turning to technology to help them track spores from late blight and other airborne diseases that could damage their crops.  One of the companies doing the monitoring ...

We are continuing our successful Show & Tell sessions on Eleaporation benefits. This time we will focus on the French fries industry. On 14 and 15 July, we are offering the opportunity ...

Key Technology introduces its VERYX belt-fed digital sorters. With sustainable all-sided surface inspection and multi-sensor Pixel Fusion, VERYX maximizes foreign material and defect detection and removal while virtually eliminating false rejects, according to Key. ...

Advances in Pulse Electric Field (PEF) technology in the food processing arena represent both cost savings and increasing measures of sustainability in the fry and chip sectors. PEF was first discovered by ...

The use of drones in the agriculture industry is allows agronomists, agricultural engineers, and farmers to help streamline their operations, using robust data analytics to gain effective insights into their crops.

Key Technology introduces Global View™, a patented new software-driven capability for their VERYX® digital sorters. Global View combines product data collected from multiple sensors with different vantage points around the product stream ...

Nicolás Serna is 74 years old and has been growing potatoes all his life.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an investment of more than $5.2 million to support nanotechnology research at 11 universities. The universities will research ways nanotechnology can be used to improve food safety, enhance ...

The California Avocado Commission began promoting guacamole for its potential as a Super Bowl and Cinco de Mayo staple decades ago, with some success. Today, the popularity of processed fresh guacamole is skyrocketing. It’s ...

Fields and orchards can be wonderful, magical worlds unto themselves. You just don’t want their residents – or invaders – to end up in your salad or bag of frozen strawberries. Nor do ...

Key Technology introduced the VERYX digital sorting platform, a suite of belt-fed and chute-fed sorters that offer high-performance capabilities and share a common user interface. “The platform will include widths ranging from 700 ...

Fields and orchards can be wonderful, magical worlds unto themselves You just don’t want their residents – or invaders – to end up in your salad or bag of frozen strawberries. Nor ...

Recent farmdoc daily articles have discussed the importance of new technologies to crop agriculture, the value and role of information in the adoption of technologies , and possible payoffs for precision farming. ...

Key Technology introduces Global View™, a patented new software-driven capability for their VERYX® digital sorters. Global View combines product data collected from multiple sensors with different vantage points around the product stream and ...

Key Technology introduces its VERYX belt-fed digital sorters to the European food processing industry at Interpom stand #257.  Like the chute-fed VERYX sorters introduced in 2015, the new belt-fed VERYX sorters set new standards of performance. With a ...

Potato Technology Centre, (PTC) Shamgarh, in the district in collaboration with Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) in Shimla and International Potato Centre (CIP), Peru

New sensor technology from Stenon enables soil analysis to be conducted as often as required and with immediate results and with laboratory precision.

PepsiCo Europe, Sean Westcott, discusses sustainable farming, collaboration and why a greater level of co-operation is required between invested parties to make real change happen.

Thus, there is no replacement to directly speaking to growers to understand what they think. Only then can we can tailor technologies we develop to meet their needs and thus create the ...

 GRIMME uses a new single-row control system as the basis for Section Control on the cup planters type GL 420 and GL 430. This new development is a cost-effective alternative to the ...

Techniques that fall into the 'straightforward' category are preferred by arable farmers who want to start with precision farming. So they don't just look at cost savings and the expected increase in revenue. ...

The Claas assistance system Cemos in the tractor guides inexperienced drivers through the correct setting of the automatic plow.  Can the clever technology replace years of experience?  Does it help farmers to ...

One potato is not the other. And bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to seed potatoes. Precision technology is used to optimize yield, both in quality and quantity. Researcher and arable ...

 Farmobile LLC, Agriculture’s Independent Data Company™, today announced that The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the leading voice of the fertilizer industry, is supporting through outreach the advancement of agronomic and machine-collected data for ag ...

Videogame technology will be used to help develop the perfect potato as part of a ground-breaking new project involving Abertay University and a major potato seed supplier. The University has entered into ...