The source crops could be grown on marginal land, avoiding displacing food production, the team observed. They added the development of renewable liquid fuels was critical to reduce global reliance on petroleum
Prof Bell acknowledged that certain crops as feedstock for the sugar-derived process would be problematic:"
John Burnett writes for West Hawaii Today that Iselle damage to Big Island ag crops is estimated at $53 million.
They got their crops to where they were ready to pick. The plants are snapped off, not too high off the ground,
because it is grown at a higher elevation than the papaya crop. Ross Sibucao, president of Hawaii Papaya Industry Association, said early Tuesday afternoon the association board was about to hold an emergency meeting.
and the rain also damaged the company macadamia nut crop. Wee lost just over 2, 000 trees,
He said three of his four 5-acre greenhouses in Panaewa sustained roof damage which will ultimately have an effect on his crops.
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
when commercial honeybees are pollinating their crops. BIO is a member of Croplife America (CLA),
a crop protection association that represents the companies that develop, manufacture, formulate and distribute crop protection chemicals
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.
Technology is not only helping farmers grow their crops but also aid in monitoring the health of their livestock.
& Farm Crops Created At The Same Timeprofiles Japanese farmer Makoto Takazawa farmland in Chiba Prefecture,
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.
many of the crops grown in the valley are high-value products that are lucrative,
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,
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day to tend to them. e have installed many webcams
#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.
Now Farmlogs has launched the only crop health monitoring service in the industry that can pinpoint the exact location in the part of the field that needs attention.
Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
The crop health is tracked throughout the season against the performance baseline to detect subtle cues
The crop health monitoring imagery utilized by Farmlogs shows information that is actionable and eliminates guesswork
As a gift to its users, Farmlogs is offering the crop monitoring feature for free this year.
so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops and avoids collateral damage to beneficial insects.
Crop protection RNA, ribonucleic acid, is present in all living cells. Mainly, it acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins.
The idea for crop protection was born out of this technology. As part of the study, Scott and Keri San miguel put a film of ds RNA on plate glass
#Crop attack discovery lets team bounce back When disease-causing bacteria invade disease-resistant rice, a small protein produced by the bacteria betrays the invader.
In the long term, the researchers hope to use this information to develop new strategies to prevent infection in various crops.
Bacterial blight, one of the worst bacterial plant diseases in the world, has been found in virtually every crop species including rice.
#"Nemo's Garden"grows terrestrial crops underwater The stand for the region of Liguria at the Milan 2015 Expo features a project as bizarre-sounding as it is intriguing:
an attempt to grow crops underwater, inside air-filled biospheres. It's part of an effort that could prove a low-cost,
lack of fertile land and adverse climate conditions around the world means we've seen several projects involving growing crops creatively,
and the crops are well out of the reach of parasites. The evaporating sea water condenses on the inner walls of the biosphere,
creating a high-humidity environment (up to 85 percent) that favors crop growth. All in all according to its proponents, the system is sustainable
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.
hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
and to control the general condition of their crops. Nowadays Piedmont, in north western Italy, is an open air laboratory where companies
which carry small cameras able to take near infrared images of crops. Healthy plants are rich in chlorophyll a pigment that reflects infrared quite well:
noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing. Moreover, it improves sustainability
The bean was lost almost a crop. About 25 years ago a farmer, named Mario Boggio, gave some kilos of Piattella to the University of Turins germplasm bank,
Countless acres of genetically engineered crops would need to be fed this manmade ingredient, from a crop duster or by some other means.
When a case crops up, the team rushes to scene andgives the vaccine to people who are close to the sick person those who are at high risk of getting the virus."So this can be the neighbors, the family, the coworkers,
instead of the current crop that often just monitor the body's activity.""Wearables currently are centered mostly around monitoring
and preparation-has been designed to produce crops with the least amount of energy expenditure possible. The operators claim the hydroponics
and can produce crops all year round, but perhaps Growing Underground greatest asset when it comes to low-impact farming will be its location.
The depth of the facility now provides some much-needed insulation to help grow crops 52 weeks of the year
unless urgent measures are taken to significantly enhance access to food and safeguard crop and livestock production in these countries
%The novel concept was tested successfully in experiments at the Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ.
Explosive urban growth matched with the steady planting of water-thirsty crops which use the majority of the water don't help.
and federal subsidies encourage farmers to plant some of the crops that use the most water.
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.
and Dairy cows and chickens and other animals eat a lot of crops, which in turn require a lot of water.
Some research has suggested that the country's meat industries create such a high demand for water-thirsty feed crops, that if every American ate meat one less day a week,
Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world, with global production of about 650 million tonnes and consumption in a variety of breads across different countries and cultures. rowing global demand for wheat requires ongoing genetic improvement to adapt to changing environmental conditions,
#Small changes have large benefits for crop breeding Researchers from The University of Western australia have developed a new method for breeding crops that will improve the potential for long-term, sustainable genetic improvement.
and implemented it in self-pollinating crops. Self-pollinating crops, or elfingcrops, are plants that are normally fertilised from their own pollen.
Self-pollinating crops such as rice, wheat and other cereals, soy beans and certain vegetable-derived oils
account for more than 60 per cent of world food calories for human consumption. Farmers are used to saving the seed of wheat and other crops such as lupin,
field pea and chickpea, knowing that the harvested seed is identical to the sown seed as a result of selfing.
as proposed in Professor Cowling model for selfing crops, means there can be more accurate selection and shorter generation intervals with more sustainable long-term genetic improvement.
and recombination in self-pollinating crops normally occurs after selfing and selection of pure lines. n our research we changed the breeding process to allow rossing before selfingrather than elfing before crossing,
killing only that bug species on crops and avoiding collateral damage to beneficial insects caused by today pesticides.
The idea for crop protection was born out of this technology. As part of the study, Scott and San miguel put a film of ds RNA on plate glass
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