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Crop scouting with satellites and smartphones
2016-01-29 22:14:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Zachary Yoder got a jump-start on treating grasshoppers from a smartphone alert. In late July, Zachary Yoder trudged into tasseling 8-foot tall corn to ground-truth his first-ever smartphone message alerting him that satellite imagery had detected an unusual area in the irrigated field. read more
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Boosting food crop yields 'can protect biodiversity'
2016-01-29 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Increasing crop yields could help meet the rising global demand for more food while sparing land to protect biodiversity, a study has suggested. The expansion of agriculture is deemed to be one of the main drivers for global habitat and biodiversity loss. Researchers from the UK and Brazil say that boosting yields could help - but only if policies such as incentives or land-zoning are implemented as well. Their findings have been published in the journal Science. "The least bad way we...
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Deere Launches New XUV590i Gator For Crop, Livestock Producers
2016-01-28 20:08:35| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
With a top speed over 45 mph, the Gator XUV590i is ideal for getting more chores done in less time. John Deere introduces the Gator XUV590i and XUV590i S4 Crossover Utility Vehicles, designed for crop and livestock producers who desire performance, comfort and customization.
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Will low crop prices increase CRP acres?
2016-01-27 19:21:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
There appears to be more interest in the CRP enrollment in 2016, due to the current lower crop prices and reduced farm profitability. FSA will rank all bid offers for the General CRP enrollment on the basis of the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) to determine which CRP bids are accepted. Focus on Ag read more
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Drought drying up crop
2016-01-25 10:36:38| Sugar Industry News
Chairman of the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited, Patrick Bethell, also estimated there will be a drastically reduced yield for the 2017 and 2018 harvests.
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