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We We are partnering with Southern Piedmont organic and conventional diverse vegetable farmers through an enhanced incentives program. Farmers will be asked to add cover crops to their vegetable rotation. We will monitor greenhouse gas emissions, soil health benefits, economic impacts, and social barriers to the adoption of using cover crops versus not using cover crops on their fields. This ...
What does the future hold? What are the most important enabling conditions for the scaling of regenerative agriculture so that companies hit their 2030 targets and regenerative agriculture becomes ...
One of the key aspects of precision farming is the ability to move from reactive to proactive practices. In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of proactive farming and explore tools and techniques to help growers make the transition from reactive to proactive farming. Precision farming is a modern agricultural technique that uses technology to optimise crop production and ...
Scouting reports hold incredible value if done correctly. Growers, crop advisors and their teams can share relevant information, keep track of important occurrences and make better decisions based on facts. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create the best and most efficient scouting reports. One of the first and oldest field data collection methods is scouting. Farmers would ...
But how did this pest control method get so widely adopted? What can growers of other crops learn from this experience? To discuss this topic, I reached out to Lane Stoeckle, a certified crop advisor and pest control advisor (PCA) based in Southern California. ...
Fertilizer prices are on the rise, which leaves growers seeking to better manage their input costs. When it comes to planning for 2022, you may have a ton of questions rolling in your head such as: How can I manage costs? Is soil sampling actually worth the investment? Does variable rate fertilizer really pay? Our Premier Crop Advisors are here to help you manage all areas of your operation and ...
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), drought cost the world 29 billion USD in 2018; therefore, it is imperative for governments, crop consultants, and farmers to be proactive. Technology is already available for risk assessment, planning, and adapting land to drought. ...
Saskatchewan - a province the size of France Case Study Summary Application Weather Index Insurance Location Saskatchewan, Canada Products deployed A850 Telemetry Gateway A753 addWAVE GPRS A753 addWAVE UHF Participating Organizations SCIC Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation Parameters recorded Precipitation Air Temperature and rel. humidity Participating ...
Farmers understand that soil fertility is a key component of growing healthy and high yielding crops. While there is much debate on how we accomplish soil fertility and health, there are some general items that are helpful to remember. ...
They are absolutely critical for understanding plant or crop yield, environmental effects, the additions of certain chemicals and elements, and greater emphasis has been placed on root study that no longer instruments such as the minirhizotron simply in the domain of scientists, but they’re also being utilized by crop consultants, ...
Moreover, Africa’s highly diverse cropping landscape creates micro-climates that require myriad location-specific varieties. ...