The pump price of hydrous ethanol in Southeastern Brazil averaged 60.31% of gasoline for July 8-14, compared with 60.81% the week before, data from the National Petroleum Agency showed Tuesday.[…]
Equipment · General · News · Precision farming · Technologies
Farming, as a human activity, is thought to be the basis for civilisations and societies dating back 15,000 years, possibly even further back if you believe the ancient alien astronaut[…]
General · Seed · Technologies
Researchers Monday expanded the testing of rice growing with saline-alkali soil across China to choose breeds with quality and optimum yield. According to Zhang Guodong, deputy director of Qingdao’s saline-alkali[…]
Founders of a new UK farmer-to-farmer online payment system say it will help producers claw back value lost in the supply chain while ensuring buyers and sellers’ transaction monies are[…]
U.S. tariffs could raise steel prices by 30 percent and may prompt the company to switch materials, Deere & Co CEO Samuel Allen said on Wednesday. “The near-term impact financially we don’t like,[…]
Chinese seed firm Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture on Tuesday said it is setting up a corn seed joint venture with China National Agrochemical Co Ltd, a unit of state-owned chemicals[…]
Crop protection · General · Technologies
Scientists tracking reported dicamba damage released new data Monday that show the controversial weedkiller’s suspected footprint widening significantly, as numbers of investigations and estimated acres of soybeans injured spiral ever[…]
Equipment · General · Precision farming · Technologies
To begin with, Variable rate technology (VRT) is any tool or system that allows a farmer to vary the rate of crop inputs. It is the cornerstone of precision farming[…]
General · Precision farming · Technologies
There are simple management practices that farms can implement to optimize nitrogen applications, as well as protect groundwater from nitrogen leaching. One of the easiest practices, though not often done,[…]
Trimble announced today that it has launched a world-first, patent-pending VerticalPoint RTK™ system for grade control in agriculture. VerticalPoint RTK provides significantly enhanced vertical accuracy and stability of standard single-baseline RTK[…]
