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Agriculture is quietly transforming across rural India — and women are at its heart. As men migrate in search of work due to climate stress, shrinking farm returns and industrial jobs, women are stepping in to manage farms, livestock and households. This feminization of agriculture has been unfolding for years yet remains largely invisible in policy and undercounted in data. Women now make ...
Many farmers are already diligent about planning their crop nutrition at the beginning of the season, but few revisit and adjust those plans as the season progresses. ...
With the news just in that crops in England are already starting to fail because of drought conditions seen over the last few weeks, amid what is being described as the warmest start to spring on record, it’s more important now than ever for farmers around the country to prioritise sustainable water management. ...
Tell us how you make nutrient management planning decisions following catch or cover crops As part of the new Cover crop decision support tool (DST) scoping project funded by AHDB, Anglian Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, ADAS is carrying out a survey to understand nutrient management planning decisions ...
In a year marked by abnormally early crop disease pressures, over 880 British farmers, agronomists, and advisors have made use of the free IPM Tool to create over 1200 bespoke IPM cropping plans online. ...
Years with lower corn prices lead to many farmers making soybeans a bigger part of their crop plan. The Maximum Farming System® can help make the most of such changes and provide optimal fertilizer management, which varies by crop. ...
Horticulture and agriculture students will plant crops to study how they perform under solar arrays of various heights and configurations. ...
Initially registered and announced by the company in April 2022, biotrinsic X19 is the first fungicide in Indigo’s line of biological seed treatments, which offers farmers the flexibility to design effective crop protection plans based on their specific field conditions. The product establishes Indigo’s biotrinsic portfolio as one of the few in the ...
With the Manna solution, hundreds of corn seed growers improved their crop management practices, boosting seed production metrics and promoting sustainability. Manna’s software-only solution leads the trend in crop management decision-making driven by virtual sensors. It provides growers with actionable insights on how much and when to irrigate, based on a ...
IGS has secured a partnership with Eden Towers, the hyper-efficient vertical farming business, to power a commercial scale vertical farm in Western Australia to grow leafy greens, specialty crops and begin the development of indigenous crops to support the local indigenous community and enter new markets. ...
The Farming Rules for Water require that applications of organic manures (which includes composts and digestates) are planned and matched to soil and crop nutrient requirements and to manage any potential risk to water quality. Those that follow the conditions of this RPS can have a plan to apply organic manure to agricultural land that may ...
Planning is something we all do. As individuals, we may be planning for next weekend or our future retirement. Farmers and plant breeders are also planning for a future. The crops we currently depend on will need grow under different conditions – due to climate change. ...
Similarly, a sustainable farm operates on a balanced plan of soil, crop, and water management techniques. The western United States is a region with scarce water resources. In this case, water management techniques make up a larger piece of a sustainability plan. There is mounting concern around the globe about water scarcity. ...
The NCC questionnaire, mailed in mid-December 2016 to producers across the 17-state Cotton Belt, asked producers for the number of acres devoted to cotton and other crops in 2016 and the acres planned for the coming season. Survey responses were collected through mid-January. ...
For more than 40 years agronomists and scientists have used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess the health of crops and plants. But what is NDVI? And how do you know you’re getting the real deal? ...
The aim of the project is to identify and validate biological fungicides to control one or more of three major crop diseases of importance in Sub-Saharan Africa: sorghum anthracnose, black Sigatoka in banana, and aflatoxin contamination in maize. AgBiome’s proprietary Genesis discovery platform has already successfully identified multiple field-usable microbes that target ...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that amends current pesticide tolerance crop grouping (Crop Group) regulations. Crop groupings allow petitioners to request a tolerance for multiple related commodities based on research data for one or more representative crops. This final rule is the fourth amendment in ...
Most of the teams’ site selections are available in a Facebook album. The second webinar on crop selection was hosted by Gordon-Smith including Jasper Den Besten, a professor at HAS University and judge of the AVF award, and Illumitex Regional Sales Manager Dennis Riling. The lesson covered what to look for, different methods for growing crops and how ...
AgWeather helps them to better assess risks associated with weather conditions, pesticide use, outbreak of pests, crop planning and marketing. Quick facts The project is funded through the AgriRisk initiatives, established under the Canada-Quebec Growing Forward 2 agreement. ...
Platform with all field information FarmMaps, the Dutch name is Akkerweb, is the first platform that brings all field information together in one central geo-platform. The ‘cropping plan’ application, based on geo-data within FarmMaps, is the center of all functionalities with added value for operational management, such as fertilisation and ...