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Utilizing Liquid Petroleum Gas in Farming
Selecting the most suitable energy source, like biogas, is critical. With the right system in place, farmers can benefit from a powerful and cost-effective fuel supply to run a multitude of operations, no matter how energy-intensive their processes may be.
How the Ag Industry Can Use Technology to Navigate Labor Management
COVID-19 is forcing the agriculture industry to re-examine long-held practices and bringing new regulations for safety. Farms that made the move to digital are better equipped to efficiently communicate and work with their labor force, but it's not too late to catch up.
Patented Lighting System Installs in a Fraction of The Time at a Fraction of the Cost
By removing LED drivers from individual light fixtures, the new MegaDrive™ eliminates the need for electrical power connections throughout the greenhouse or grow room while significantly reducing up-front costs.
Agricultural Waste into Biopolymers?
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are also responsible for producing more than 90 per cent of global palm oil, which consequently causes 27 million tonnes of waste per annum from fruit bunches (EFBs), fibres, shells and liquid effluent.
Synthetic Biology in Agriculture
There are ways to improve the carbon efficiency of plants, while increasing production. By making use of diversified cropping systems growers can reduce the carbon footprint up to 300 %.
How Colleges Around the Country Use Container Farms
Colleges around the country have found a way to add new educational programs while becoming more sustainable: Container farms. These farms are made from repurposed shipping containers and allow students and faculty to grow food all year long, without any soil.
Enhanced Zoning Using Multiple Sources of Data
With advancements in satellite technology, imagery can be taken from peak biomass to create a zone map based on how the crop performs out in the field. These maps generally look very close to how the yield map will look after harvest.
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BrightFarms Secures $100 Million Series E Round of Funding to Expand High-Tech Indoor Farming Across the U.S.
BrightFarms currently distributes its products to more than 2,000 stores in the U.S. and expects to expand its distribution to more than 15,000 stores by 2025
Perfecting IPM: Going beyond the crop walk and sticky cards
One company iUNU, has a system that uses AI to help with early pest detection. The system “learns” what healthy crops and plants look like, recognizes when anomalies occur, and then sends an alert when something is amiss.
Rise Gardens Secures Investment from Amazon Alexa Fund to Help Bring the Best of Indoor Farming to the Consumer Market
Extension of seed financing enables Rise Gardens to expand reach and offerings for popular indoor garden system that enables people to grow their own food year-round
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Whole Foods Market partners with Infarm to offer a more sustainable way to shop
Whole Foods Market becomes the third major retailer in the UK to install vertical farms to grow produce in store
Lavie Bio Announces Positive Results for LAV311 and LAV312 in its Bio-Fungicide Program
Positive results were achieved in a series of vineyard trials for bunch rot diseases conducted in Europe and the United States
ONDO customer Otbrani saves 30% of water and increases crop yield with 20% thanks to ONDO
ONDO has announced the results achieved by yet another customer using ONDO precision irrigation and fertigation solutions.
FarmVisionAI™ Releases Mobile App for Powerful In-field Artificial Intelligence
Illumitex adds a mobile app for real-time engagement between horticultural AI and indoor growers
KNOW HOW TO CHECK ADULTERATED FERTILIZERS.
In today's era, we have to take care of adulteration while buying everything, how to identify adulterated goods is a big problem. But if these adulteration is done in fertilizers then the problem becomes very serious for the farmers. Farmers know that most of the investment in farming has to be made for fertilizers and their utility is also very high because they have the potential to increase crop yields by up to 50%.
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Next Generation of Precision Motion Controllers - V3.0
FAULHABER MICROMO launches the new MC3/MCS motion control family. The new high performance, intelligent controllers are optimized for use with FAULHABER motors, offer electronics for simple operation with state-of-the-art interfaces for multi-axis applications, and provide a motion control system solution with the most compact integration into industrial grade housing.
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