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Photography Competition Highlights Innovation in Farming
2015-09-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - There are only a few days left to enter Elanco's European-wide photography competition, highlighting innovation in farming, which ends at midnight on Sunday 27 September.
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Would you burn working capital to keep farming?
2015-09-22 22:52:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
First, one must consider the producers goals; business, family and personal. Next, look at the current business position. If the business is near the stage of exit perhaps the financial losses and negative margins are not a good use of the excess working capital. Road Warrior read more
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The Future of Vertical Farming
2015-09-19 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Vertical farming has gained much attention in the U.S. in recent years. From only an idea proposed by Professor Dickson Despommier and his class at Columbia University in 1999, it has now been made into a reality (and a profitable one at that). Earlier this summer, construction began on what will be the worlds largest vertical farm in Newark, New Jersey. Initially, the idea was brushed off and deemed infeasible. But breakthroughs in technology, coupled with increasingly unpredictable weather...
Farming for water
2015-09-17 22:43:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Farmer uses cover crops, no-till to handle wet soils, weeds. While many farmers rely on spring tillage to dry out wet soils, Jerry Ackerman goes the other way. His cover crop/no-till program helps him handle heavy rains and wet soils better than tillage and drain tiles. In 2013, it even helped him fight waterhemp thanks to the strips of cereal rye he seeded the previous fall in soybeans and corn. read more
Monitoring Wellbeing of Animals through Precision Livestock Farming
2015-09-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The growth in size of livestock and poultry farms is demanding more dynamic methods to ensure the health, welfare and performance of the individual animals concerned.
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