Disease in the field: The dilemma of choosing between fast and accurate tests
Drought, severe weather, fire - they all reduce yields, but disease is far and away the biggest barrier to achieving a more bountiful harvest. Worldwide, plant diseases and pests account for up to 40% of the yield losses in key crops.
Wind Energy v. Solar Energy: Which is a Better Renewable for Your Commercial Farm?
While both technologies offer their own advantages, specific factors like your budget, land availability, and available financial incentives, will determine which solution is more advantageous to you.
How AI Is Used for Crop Disease Diagnosis
Incorporating AI is one of the most effective ways to tackle a top farming fear - crop disease. How is the tech capable of accurately diagnosing sick crops?
How Can We Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable?
Urban farmers face unique challenges, from limited space to logistical hurdles, making the dream of a greener cityscape both a necessity and a challenge. As such, sustainable practices in urban agriculture are not just beneficial but essential for the future of city living.
Every week is harvest season in Western-designed hybrid farm
The year-round farming system, as conceived, can be attached to retail locations like grocery stores to provide zero-mile food supply, nearly anywhere in Canada.
Know Your Pests to Grow Your Best | How Automated Pest Monitoring is Transforming Farming
A beacon of innovation in a field ripe for technological infusion, this modern solution doesn't just aim to replace the old guard of pest detection; it seeks to revolutionize it, turning what was once a reactive measure into a proactive, real-time strategy.
Managing a busy multi-point wireless network
Here Matthew Youngs, marketing manager at wireless telemetry specialist Mantracourt, shares some advice on how to manage traffic on a busy wireless network.
Fluence Drives Improved Yields with Cannabis Cultivator Clade9
In the first grow cycle since installing Fluence's RAPTR LED light fixtures, California-based specialty grower Clade9 experienced 70% higher yields while maintaining product quality
Gocious aids AGCO in their mission to help farmers feed the world through product roadmap innovation
Across ACGO, all team members now have real-time transparency into dynamic product roadmaps. By increasing collaboration among AGCO brands and departments, teams can now focus more on product management and less on project management.
Emerging Solutions for 5 Persistent Agricultural Equipment Issues
Agricultural equipment has come a long way over the industry's history, but machine-related problems remain prominent. Addressing these issues is becoming increasingly crucial as a growing population demands higher farm productivity.
Solar + Sheep = Success! Renewable ways to live off the land
The success of "solar grazing" programs at Arnprior and other facilities across Canada
and the U.S. has garnered attention from landowners, sheep farmers and solar
developers alike.
How to Secure Your Farm Surveillance Cameras
The presence of surveillance cameras may often be enough to deter potential crime. However, these systems also need protection from both physical threats and cyberattacks.
FIELDS AND THE SUN: AGRICULTURAL PV, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ENERGY AND THE FARMING INDUSTRY
Shading and wind protection provided by solar panels reduces evaporation, and innovative solar panels have been developed that also collect rainwater for irrigation. This can benefit farming operations by boosting their resilience against crop failure.
Improving Water Use Efficiency in Pepper Cultivation: Collaborative Efforts by Gardin Agritech and Bayer Crop Science
Utilising Gardin's advanced phenotyping technologies, the collaboration aims to optimize water management strategies while maintaining crop productivity in protected cultivation under plastic cover.
Purdue-USDA team develops fast-track process for genetic improvement of plant traits
The Purdue-USDA team sought to build a resource that learns, from large amounts of publicly available data, to quickly identify what special genes called transcription factors regulate the expression of a given trait in various plant species.
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