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ADM to Use Drones for Crop Insurance Claims After FAA Approval
2015-04-22 20:50:08| Agriculture - Topix.net
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the world's largest corn processor, received regulatory approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones that will locate and assess crop damage. 'We are on track to have this technology in the air for our customers next year,' Greg Mills, president of ADM's Crop Risk Services unit, which offers Drones are one of the latest tools in precision agriculture, in which data is collected by satellites and sensors and analyzed to maximize farm yields.
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Keeping up climate: efforts reduce African crop losses face extra hurdle of climate change
2015-04-21 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to mount. To start with, they tend to lack storage and processing tools that industrialized countries take for granted -- things like refrigeration, ovens, and grain elevators. On top of that, they're working the land in places where climate change may already be wielding its effects, making disease, rainfall patterns, and crop yields less predictable. Africa, Latin America,...
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UK acorn crop 'being hit by climate change'
2015-04-17 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change could be affecting the quality of acorn crops from the UKs oak trees, the Woodland Trust has said. Research using data recorded by members of the public for the trusts Natures Calendar survey of the changing seasons has found that warmer years tend to lead to less synchronised flowering of oak trees, and as a result smaller crops. Professor Tim Sparks, from Coventry University, analysed more than 160,000 pieces of data and found that the more first flowering dates varied,...
NexSteppe producing dedicated biomass crop at commercial scale
2015-04-16 12:55:30| Green Car Congress
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Micro Irrigation Systems Market 2015-2019 - Type, Crop Type & by Region - Global Trends & Forecasts
2015-04-08 13:59:49| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Micro Irrigation Systems Market by Type , Crop Type & by Region - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019" report to their offering. The micro irrigation systems market has grown exponentially in the last few years and this trend is projected to continue.
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