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Potato processing is a balance of competing priorities. Processors must maximise throughput while protecting product quality. They must reduce labour and operational costs while meeting increasingly strict retailer specifications. And they must do all of this while handling a natural, variable product that changes daily. The difference between a good processing line and a great one often comes ...
When calves are born within a defined, predictable period, uniformity improves, marketing options expand, and the production cycle becomes easier to manage. ...
Every Crop Is Different, and So Is Our Approach No two harvests are ever the same. Soil types, climate, and storage conditions vary, retail standards evolve, and sustainability expectations are rising. For processors, these shifts can mean fluctuating crop size, shape, density, and finish, all of which impact line performance. We design equipment that doesn’t just perform; it adapts. ...
Physical purity testing is a fundamental part of seed quality assessment, ensuring that seed lots meet established purity standards before planting or marketing. As a core component of seed certification programs, it verifies the proportion of pure seeds in a given sample and detects contamination by other crop seeds, weed seeds, and inert material. ...
The market is segmented into fertilizers, pesticides, adjuvants, and plant growth regulators, with key applications in crop-based and non-crop-based sectors. ...
In the past, founder Maarten Bloemen focused mainly on acid-loving crops. But that market proved too small for the ambitions of Father Maarten and now also Son Merijn Bloemen. ...
Heritage Farms, led by manager Allan Smirl for over a decade, has continuously sought innovative ways to improve their operations. In 2014, the farm began a partnership with Decisive Farming to enhance decision-making processes impacting the farm’s ...
A review of various surveys on the state of agriculture revealed a connection between low crop yields, reduced incomes, and soil fertility constraints, particularly soil acidity. ...
Central to climate-smart agriculture is the use of weather stations, which provide valuable data on weather patterns, soil conditions, and crop health. This article explores the critical role of weather stations as a key tool for advancing climate-smart agriculture practices. ...
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However, putting carbon farming into practice to achieve that frequently, requires further investments; such as buying new equipment, devoting time and resources to soil analysis followed by strict protocols, or diversifying crops. As the market leader in organic carbon measurement on-the-spot, AgroCares strives to innovate solutions to ...
Here are four tips to help set you up for a successful crop scout. 1. Seeing the big picture First and foremost, especially when on a general scout try and keep an open mind. ...
Alistair Neill, a Prime Agriculture potato agronomist based in Norfolk, shares his four essential tips on getting potato crops off to the best start possible, beginning with ensuring good crop establishment.1. ...
Sustainability and efficiency are Curtis Kornelson’s goals for his farming operation as he hopes to one day hand the farm down to his son. That’s why he adopted variable rate technology on his farm more than ten years ago. Curtis Kornelson is a third generation farmer – he grows green lentils, canola, durum and barley on just over 8,000 acres northwest of Kindersley, ...
It tailors seed rates to customer requirement, planting date and proposed burndown and harvest date, and growers can also model several scenarios to see what affect altering seed rate or planting date will have on yield and size distribution of tubers in their ware crops. Produce Solutions potato specialist Jamie Lee says it helps growers lay a solid foundation on which to build ...
CEA production systems are currently producing just a fraction of our food crops, but certain high-value specialty crops like fresh herbs, tomatoes, salad greens and strawberries are now being produced via CEA production systems or hybrid greenhouse and CEA systems. CEA also has an advantage in that farmland isn’t needed, so this type of farming can be ...
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The days of sifting through multiple files and places in search of field data, crop and marketing plans and financial statements is simply no longer a viable or time efficient option for today’s farmer. ...
The project site is divided into eight separate subsurface drip irrigated blocks consisting of three banana plots, two papaya plots, two bermuda turf grass plots, and one giant bermuda pasture grass plot. The banana and papaya crops were selected on the basis of marketability, the bermuda grass turf for use in landscape applications and giant bermuda grass as a ...
From this point of view, the organic fertilizer manufacturing process to process raw materials into pellets is a general trend. Compared with powders, the market for pellets is broader and the price is more advantageous. But for investors, whether to choose powder organic fertilizer equipment or granular organic fertilizer equipment, they must make a conclusion based on their own ...
More often than not, the vegetable grower is only paid for the yield and improvements in crop quality are not regarded as important. This line of thinking however has been challenged by local producers such as vertical farmers. Using modern cultivation techniques they manage to locally produce high quality crop and bring it to the ...
These foods are convenient, affordable, highly profitable, strongly flavoured, aggressively marketed – and on sale in supermarkets everywhere.” Why does ultra-processed food matter for the climate and nature? ...