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DuPont, with Deere & Co, to roll out precision farming program
2013-11-08 11:36:28| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
DuPont Pioneer, the agricultural seed unit of DuPont , said Friday that it has aligned with farm machinery company Deere & Co in a race against rival Monsanto Co to provide farmers with enhanced "precision agriculture" analyses aimed at maximizing crop production.
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DuPont, with Deere & Co, to roll out precision farming program
2013-11-08 10:21:35| Chemicals - Topix.net
DuPont Pioneer, the agricultural seed unit of DuPont , said Friday that it has aligned with farm machinery company Deere & Co in a race against rival Monsanto Co to provide farmers with enhanced "precision agriculture" analyses aimed at maximizing crop production.
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UN highlights role of farming in closing emissions gap
2013-11-06 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Changing farming practices could play an important role in averting dangerous climate change says the UN. In their annual emissions report, they measure the difference between the pledges that countries have made to cut warming gases and the targets required to keep temperatures below 2C. On present trends there is likely to be an annual excess of 8 to 12 gigatonnes of these gases by 2020. Agriculture, they say, could make a significant difference to the gap. This is the fourth such report,...
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Carbon farming: it's a nice theory, but don't get your hopes up
2013-10-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the Blue Mountains burned last week, a grumble of local farmers gathered in Harden, on the south-west slopes of New South Wales. I met them in the middle of a wheat crop, hunched against the cold wind. It had been snowing in the ski fields as the state's rural fire service chief, Shane Fitzsimmons, predicted catastrophic bushfire conditions in greater Sydney area. While Tony Abbott and Christiana Figueres traded blows about the origins of the early bushfire season, I joined the farmers to...
Resilient crop farming urged in South Asia
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: Farming of resilient and mixed crops can help mitigate food scarcity in South Asia`s coastal areas and fight against the adverse impacts of climate change, speakers told the inauguration of a workshop yesterday. They also emphasised conserving soil nutrition and harvesting rainwater to combat challenges of irregular rainfall which has detrimental effects on crop productivity. As South Asia is known for its problems centring hunger and malnutrition, there is no alternative to adopting resilient...
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