By nurturing watermelon seeds to maturity inside cube-shaped glass boxes Japanese farmers create cube-shaped mature melons that allow for densely-packed shipping and storage of the fruit.
He's planning to adapt his model to predict the movement of plant pathogens which could help farmers preemptively protect their crops by describing where to strategically deploy pesticides.
when the farmer selects his seeds. On the long term this will lead to worsen relation between the bees and the plants.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources.
Like building giant greenhouses to grow food on to help take some strain off earth's resources...
We would have to launch water CO2 soil chemical fertilizers the materials to construct the greenhouses
and Indonesia as growers clear land for palm oil plantations. Major palm oil consumers Asian Agri Cargill Golden Agri-Resources Wilmar along with the Indonesian Chamber of commerce and Industry say they'll work with the government of Indonesia the world's largest palm oil producer to plant new palms
They have pledged also to stop buying palm oil from suppliers that destroy forests for the creation of plantations.
#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.
, farmers. Anaerobic digestion is considered also a less favored way of dealing with excess food. From an environmental standpoint, it's better to chop food up into deli salad,
But in Vietnam, thousands of farmers have turned to weaver ants to help them grow their cashews.
or deterring pests that the farmers'net income jumped 71%.%Curious whether weaver ants might be effective alternatives to pesticides in other situations
Calling this"the best documented case of efficient biocontrol in open agricultural systems, "the researchers think more farmers should make use of ant control.
The idea of using weaver ants is not new they point out. About 1700 years ago, Chinese farmers could buy ants on the market to release in citrus groves,
a practice long forgotten with the invention of chemical pesticides. But now, two European companies are considering how to provide weaver ant nests to farmers,
and a Danish aid project is helping to establish ant nurseries in Africa so as to provide mature colonies to farmers interested in trying out these six-legged pest controllers.
Given that there are 13,000 ant species in the world, the potential may be limitless, the researchers note o
the tobacco industry and companies that are found guilty of violating human rights, causing serious environmental damage, or corruption.
unless we make oilseeds remunerative for farmers by increasing import duty, "he added. Massive imports have driven down Indian soybean prices by 20 per cent in four months, discouraging farmers from expanding oilseed area.
But despite this, local soyoil is still 50 per cent costlier than imported palm oil.""Oilseed cultivation is not profitable.
India has said it plans to spend $1. 5 billion over three years to help farmers grow oil palm trees.
It has already been considering directly buying oilseeds from farmers and boosting state support for rapeseed, soybeans and peanuts.
But as of now, it is a Catch-22 for farmers and millers.""We can't sell edible oils at higher prices due to cheaper imports
and oilseed farmers are not ready to accept lower prices, "said the miller Agrawal l
as precision ag company Farmers Edge, fresh off a Series B from Kleiner Perkins, announced the acquisition of Granduke Geomatics.
Farmers Edge seems to be taking a page out of Climate Corporation playbook, which made several acquisitions in 2014,
and under Byzantine water rights laws that date back to the 1820s there has been little incentive for farmers to manage this resource more sustainably.
It hardware/software solution enables farmers to analyze every drop of water on their property,
and has been on an acquisition spree itself with other Silicon valley startups like Farmers Edge following suit.
Using insecticides is one of the few ways farmers currently have to treat their groves for greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB.
Even though hydrogen-fuelled airliners would not emit greenhouse-increasing gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides or soot like today subsonic airplanes,
"Shrimp farmers have been either legally or illegally cutting down mangroves. Farmed shrimps, or prawns, account for more than half of the global demand for the crustaceans.
Beginning with Scotland prohibition on domestic genetically modified crop cultivation on Aug 9, Europe scientists and farmers watched with mounting dismay as other countries followed suit.
Shielded from the winds of change behind a $50 billion wall of subsidies thanks to the European union Common agricultural policy, farmers in Europe can,
I was interrupted by an organic farmer who said he was determined never to grow biotech crops. His grounds?
Yet from drought tolerant maize to virus-resistant cassava, many biotech traits are being developed that could quickly improve the livelihoods of poorer African farmers.
#Gluten free wheat quest undertaken by farmers Kansas farmers are paying for genetic research to figure out exactly why some people struggle to digest wheat.
and will tap into a Kansas wheat variety repository that dates back to the 1900s in hopes of finding a variety perhaps one that fell out of favour among commercial farmers that might already be low in reactivity for celiac sufferers.
the company works closely with suppliers and farmers to strengthen sustainable farming practices. This work addresses key growing dimensions including GHG emission reduction, water management,
The study was initiated in Japan by a group of geneticists at the Okayama University Institute of Plant science
the Risky Business analysis suggests. ithout significant adaptation by farmers, several regions will likely see yield losses for heat-sensitive commodity crops like cotton and corn, with potentially high economic costs,
Not unlike the other commodities exchange, this platform will allow cannabis farmers to lock in prices for their crops
farmers could send machines into their fields to inspect the crops, said Georgia Tech doctoral candidate Yancy Diaz-Mercado,
which consisted on leaves of"Outredgeous"red romaine lettuce grown in NASA's"Veggie"zero gravity greenhouse, is part of the space agency's effort to find ways to feed tomorrow's deep-space travelers.
"The Veg-01 experiment sees plants grown in zero gravity in a plastic greenhouse that consists of a collapsible plastic tent with a controllable atmosphere that is lit by red, blue,
In addition to the greenhouse the experiment also included two sets of growing pillows with romaine lettuce seeds and one with zinnias.
and help farmers survey their crops more quickly these flying robots have stirred up quite a few problems in recent months.
our calculations of the durations of payback times took account of the entire production chain for fossil fuels and biofuels with the accompanying greenhouse emissions.
"In the future, farmers could send machines into their fields to inspect the crops, "said Georgia Tech Ph d. candidate Yancy Diaz-Mercado."
where farmers are allowed to pump as much as they want. And the Colorado river which waters much of southern California, has been suffering from 14 years of low flow.
exposing it to everyday use with rural farmers in an area where USAID is active. If all goes well,
the system could provide enough water to irrigate a small farm m
#Navy Makes Armor Clear As Clay It a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase lass cannonon its head.
Vinduino As California fourth straight year of drought forces farmers to cut back on water use,
Local farming also means fresher produce. Their products travel only a few miles compared to the thousand-mile journeys most agricultural products make.
baby cabbage and microgreens with up to 15 times as many crop cycles a year compared to traditional farming.
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
"For example, we envision that synthetic fermentation could be used by farmers to generate and identify new antibacterial or antifungal molecules to treat plant diseases."
a farmer could identify a novel combination that treats plant infections. He adds that the next step is to determine the most efficient way to screen the thousands
and have immediate practical application in associations of farmers and agrifood companies m
#Sensor detects spoilage of food VTT has developed a sensor that detects ethanol in the headspace of a food package.
#Agricultural intervention improves HIV outcomes A multifaceted farming intervention can reduce food insecurity while improving HIV outcomes in patients in Kenya, according to a randomized,
"The pumps make it possible for farmers to irrigate year round, which reduced dependence on seasonal rainfalls.
Producing food year round enables farmers to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming and also allows them to capture higher crop prices during the dry season,
Agricultural training included practical demonstrations on sustainable farming techniques, use of the water pump planting soil and water conservation,
so groundbreaking is that these genetic modifications look just like genetic variations resulting from the selective breeding that farmers have been doing for millennia.
between 10 and 17 days after the seed is pollinated. e believe that as early farmers selected larger seeds to eat and plant,
and showed independent signs of selection by farmers and breeders. ur work indicates that SWEET4 could be a promising target for engineering varieties of maize,
and biofuels too by providing information for land managers farmers conservationists and policy makers as the bioenergy industry ramps up particularly in Wisconsin and the central U s as bioenergy production demand increases we should pay attention to the ecological consequences says Turner.
By nurturing watermelon seeds to maturity inside cube-shaped glass boxes Japanese farmers create cube-shaped mature melons that allow for densely-packed shipping and storage of the fruit.
Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.
Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates.
The authors of a report published in Horttechnology said that the use of sensor-based irrigation technology can also accelerate container and greenhouse plant production time.
Local farmers will use the system and provide feedback at a conference organized by Jain Irrigation,
#Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the masses BUENOS AIRES--The new Trakür agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agrobusiness. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,
the Trakür is meant to increase production of vegetables and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals."
"When one applies these chemicals in a confined environment like a greenhouse, one likelihood of intoxication increases notably,
Designed for small farmers who, because of Argentina's regular economic collapses, are not eager or able to make large investments,
Thus, the Trakür could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina but also for those in developing countries around the globe.
Greenhouse robots are generally small wheeled vehicles that carry a tank of pesticide, a sprayer to distribute the liquid,
and the amount of remaining chemical to a computer outside the greenhouse, where an operator directs the Trakür virtually.
A GPS SYSTEM with differential correction would cost an Argentine farmer about $10 000, Masiá said,
which is selling technology that its founder first put to the test in Turkish greenhouses,
-or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field. These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected,
So, for example, a farmer could monitor conditions for his or her field using a mobile phone,
and usually require someone to monitor the soil on an ad hoc basis. Growflex can help farmers watering patterns based on other ambient factors,
since about 2005 in hundred of installations in Turkey focused on growing greenhouse tomatoes. Those systems were sold by Climateminder's predecessor corporation,
Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns. This is a job well-suited to drones,
and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability (see gricultural Drones, although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
#How LEDS Are Set to Revolutionize Hi-tech Greenhouse Farming It won't come as a surprise to discover that consumers all over the developed world are increasingly demanding seasonal vegetables all year round even
Which is why greenhouse farming has become a major factor in the food supply of the developed world.
Consequently the number of commercial greenhouses and the area they occupy is rocketing. In The netherlands for example greenhouses occupy around 0. 25 percent of the land area of the entire country.
And The netherlands isn t even the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in Europe. That position is held by Spain.
And the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in the world is now China. This kind of farming has a significant impact on the environment.
Commercial greenhouses have to be lit and heated in a way that optimizes growth. And up to 35 percent of the cost of greenhouse tomatoes comes from this heating and lighting.
So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.
One obvious answer is to convert greenhouses from the traditional incandescent lighting usually high pressure sodium lamps to more energy-efficient LEDS.
That might seem like an economic no-brainer but the industry has been slow to make this change because of the high initial cost of LEDS.
The question that farmers have pondered over is whether they will ever recoup the upfront cost of a brand-new system of lighting.
These guys have compared the life-cycle costs of traditional high pressure sodium lamps against those of LEDS for greenhouse lighting.
For the moment the strategy for greenhouse farmers seems clear: convert to LED lighting as quickly as possible.
Greenhouses allow for a wider variety of fruit and vegetable for a given climate. LEDS give farmers greater flexibility at a lower cost and a smaller environmental footprint.
These are surely goals worth aiming for r
#Digital Summit: Microsoft s Quantum Search for The next Transistor Microsoft is making a significant investment in creating a practical version of the basic component needed to build a quantum computer,
Today most farmers typically overwater crops by up to 20%just to be on the safe side.
Optimal irrigation can improve quality and quantity of crops and increase farmers incomes and profitability.
Saturas'precision agriculture sensing system comprises of miniature implanted sensors wireless transponders and delivery of information to the farmer's Internet device:
and efficient industrial product to achieve a precise irrigation tool for farmers worldwide. Source: http://trendlines. com/portfolio/saturas s
But in some villages, fires had destroyed even existing oil palm trees that belonged to multinational companies or local farmers.
a farmer in the Riau village of Bungaraya. We were sitting in Riau, at a roadside café flanked by oil palm trees.
Tarsedi told me that oil palm is the crop of choice for Bungaraya farmers because it is more valuable than paddy rice.
typically earns a farmer around 48 million Indonesian rupiah (nearly US$4, 000) per year instead of 40 million rupiah a year for rice.
And they affect both corporate plantations and smallholder farmers. f a fire happens and we can control it,
wel report it, said Maman, a Bungaraya farmer. But sometimes, even helicopters are powerless to stop the burning, he added. nd during the really bad fires,
a lot of the kids cough and end up at the clinic with health problems. In 2009, Indonesia passed a law banning fires on peat plantations.
Farmers in Bungaraya told me that, as a result, they had started to clear peat bogs manually,
without using fire. But Tarsedi said manual clearance is more labour-intensive and requires extra fertilisers.
requires extra time and money that most farmers don want to part with. When the wind blows from the west
-in order to make it available for growing sugar plantations, and you get rid of that vegetation by burning it then you are putting a big pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere."
. and State departments of Agriculture and state Board of Agriculture Chairman Scott Enright met Monday with farmers.
It was pretty clear to us that the papaya farmers took the highest amount of damage.
The farmers went through a tough spot about a year ago, fighting disease. They got their crops to where they were ready to pick.
Ha said a real problem that will hinder papaya farmers in their recovery is most don have credit.
And it not just Puna farmers who sustained damage from Iselle winds and rain. Ka coffee and macadamia nut growers have been impacted
as well. e had a USDA (Farm Service agency) meeting (Tuesday) morning down here with some of the farmers.
Stevens said, o some of the smaller farmers, 100 to 200 trees is huge damage,
which we hosted for the smaller farmers, he said. e probably don qualify for any type of aid,
He said three of his four 5-acre greenhouses in Panaewa sustained roof damage which will ultimately have an effect on his crops.
he said. ee trying to call a meeting where all the farmers and ranchers can get accurate information on the process we can use to follow to get some help for our farmers and ranchers. n
#Decoding Genes to find Breast cancer Today, August 7, 2014, researchers at the University Medical center Utrecht announced that they have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk for breast cancer.
and impose new restrictions on what pesticides farmers can use when commercial honeybees are pollinating their crops.
and plant science solutions for agriculture and pest management in the United states. CLA welcomed today release of the White house National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators.
and computational technologies are giving farmers the ability to monitor their land better, to make decisions that can lower costs and increase crop yields,
farmers could find ways to use water, seed, and fertilizer more efficiently, lowering their costs enough to more than pay for the technology investment
Technology is not only helping farmers grow their crops but also aid in monitoring the health of their livestock.
which help farmers, like Keith Larrabee, make effective decisions. In her second article, Brynes tells Larrabee narrative,
and companies hope their technologies will positively influence a farmer experience: hen Larrabee began using such sensors,
It is nearly common knowledge that by 2050 farmers will struggle to feed the massive growing population;
Farmers now have the ability to make choices that are affordable, effective, and based on fact. arming is moving from being an act of intuitive decision making to an act of analytical decision making,
Modern farming is becoming dual purpose. Simultaneous farming and olar farmingresults in ecological and economic benefits.
Farmers can have a continual olar harvestwith a solar farm. olar Power & Farm Crops Created At The Same Timeprofiles Japanese farmer Makoto Takazawa farmland in Chiba Prefecture,
where he has both solar PV and crops. e has nearly 350 kw of solar panels mounted on poles 3 meters above ground
and has grown crops like cabbages, eggplants, cucumber, taro, peanuts and yams underneath them. Both the solar panels and the food-bearing plants receive enough sunlight to be productive.
and the region conservative bent leads farmers and ranchers to stick to the crops, trees, and animals they know.
and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops. The by-product that remains at the end of the process,
Italy. he main target of this project is to create alternative sources of plant production in areas where environmental conditions make it extremely difficult to grow crops through conventional farming,
The final product, WISERGANIC fertilizer, is sold both to farmers and to consumers at the stores that scrapped the leftover potato salad in the first place.
#Farmlogs Is Now Able To Alert Farmers About Crop Threats Farm management software company Farmlogs is used by over 20%of the farms in the U s. with over $15 billion in crops under management.
so that farmers can fix problems before yield is reduced. If Farmlogs detects crop health anomalies, then it will alert farmers by pinpointing the exact location of the threats.
Farmlogsmobile app will even guide farmers to the location that needs to be monitored. As a gift to its users, Farmlogs is offering the crop monitoring feature for free this year.
Based in Ann arbor, Michigan Farmlogs launched about three years ago and participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program.
Farmlogs is used by farmers in all 50 states and internationally in over 130 countries across six continents.
ee seen how impactful data can be in helping farmers optimize their production. At the same time, we are always looking for ways to minimize the work our users have said to do
a leading potato pest that costs North american farmers $100 million per year and also damages tomato and other plants.
including underground, inside a skyscraper, in a tiny greenhouse and even in the cloud, to try and deal with the issue.
in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.
Local farmers will use the system and provide feedback at a conference organized by Jain Irrigation,
hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
which helps agronomists to verify in real time if plants are enjoying good health. Infrared imagine of an experimental field of wheat in Cigliano, near Vercelli.
Agronomists need to verify if a poor state of health is caused by disease or a lack of water anyway,
Connecting these results with those gathered by agronomists and sensors on the ground, the farmer can have a complete overview of
what is going on. Even the Piattella bean, cultivated in Cortereggio, a small town in the Canavese area, has benefited from this technology.
About 25 years ago a farmer, named Mario Boggio, gave some kilos of Piattella to the University of Turins germplasm bank,
allowing agronomists and farmers to check the results in real time. Despite the strict parameters that define a Slow food presidium,
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Farmers that are able to identify viruses affecting the health or yields of their herds might be able to halt the spread of those viruses,
sustainable farming business. rowing Underground (love the name!)uses hydroponics systems and LED lighting to produce a range of vegetables
but it also provides the latest glimpse of how farming is moving into the 21st Century thanks to some pioneering high-tech agriculture ideas.
Many farmers have abandoned their fields and harvests for fear of the disease. In Sierra leone for instance it is reported that up to 40%of farms were abandoned in the worst affected areas.
and technologies available to farmers enhance rice quality and develop a critical mass of scientists technicians extension workers and seed producers.
and WFP have called for urgent action to reestablish the farming system in the three countries. Measures should enable most vulnerable people to access agricultural inputs such as seeds
and planning strategies to make improved rice seed available to farmers with strong support from donors such as the Government of Japan the African Development bank FAO the International Fund for Agricultural development the United states Agency for International Development
#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police, accused of environmental crimes. t was a radical operation,
Greenhouse gases released by farming, such as methane from livestock and rice paddies, and nitrous oxides from fertilizers and other soil treatments rose 13 percent after 1990, the study concluded.
as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws. Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.
state officials the first cutback to farmers'water rights since 1977, and ordered cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36 percent.
but some farmers are already ignoring the new rules, or challenging them in court. The drought shows no sign of letting up any time soon,
Arcane laws actually encourage farmers to take even more water from the Colorado river and from California's rivers than they actually need,
and federal subsidies encourage farmers to plant some of the crops that use the most water.
Farming and agriculture use more than 70 percent of the water that flows from the Colorado river to the seven river basin states.
In addition to those crops, cotton is one of the thirstiest crops a farmer can grow, especially in a desert.
many of the crops that use less water entitle farmers to fewer federal subsidies, and so farmers don't have much of an incentive to switch crops.
Though cotton production has dropped steeply in California since 1995, California farmers have gotten $3 billion in federal subsidies to grow it.
On top of subsidies,"Use it or Lose it"clauses in state water laws actually encourage farmers to flood their fields with much more water than they need
lest they lose the right to that amount of water in the future. Urban development is also a big factor.
and creative ad campaigns are finding varying degrees of success. The state has cut deliveries of water to farmers through the state and federal aqueduct systems,
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