Precision equipment showcased at CropTec 2013 As well as invaluable agronomy advice and knowledge sharing, the inaugural CropTec event also offered a platform for manufacturers wanting to show off their kit. James Rickard rounds up some of the precision equipment. Using technology taken from its mechanical weeder, such as its Robo Crop camera guidance, Garford […]
Rotary cultivator 2FK160 (Agribusiness Farm Machinery) Robust and solid PTO driven rotary ridger, for making nice and firm potato ridges. The machine is equipped with a 1000 rpm PTO gearbox and can be used for potato ridges as well as carrot rows can be formed. The machine is equipped with a chain drive from one […]
Computer vision based, guidance system for non-chemical weed control This project was concerned with reducing agrochemical inputs through the use of inter-row cultivation to control weeds. This practice goes back to Jethro Tull’s invention of the seed drill in the 18th Century. However, the advent of herbicides all but eliminated inter-row hoeing in the UK. […]
Autonomous Crop Treatment Vehicle One way to reduce agrochemical use is through spatially selective operation; a map of the variability within a field is used to decide how to selectively treat areas of typically 5 m by 5 m resolution from a tractor equipped with GPS. We proposed an alternative but complementary approach based upon […]
Civics Turn Out To Honoure Gardford Farm Machinery In Agribusiness Garford Farm Machinery were officially honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category, on Tuesday this week (7th September) in a full civic ceremony at their premises in Deeping St James. Garford were independently judged a worthy winner of the award, which […]
Gujarat farmers set to go Hi-Tech with the help of Israeli Green tech A world-class agriculture research and high-tech farming training institute is to be set up in Gujarat in collaboration with Israel government. This was stated by chief minister Narendra Modi while inaugurating a national convention on ‘The next frontier of agri-business and technology’ at Mahatma Mandir […]
Garford InRow Robocrop Machinery In Agribusiness Garford Farm Machinery is a manufacturing and distribution supply high quality products in the UK and the world agricultural market.
Robocrop: on-farm robots AS Andrew Bate’s farm machinery got bigger and bigger over the past decade, the machines that occupied his thoughts in the tractor cab got smaller and smaller. As a result, the Queensland farmer, “Bendee”, Emerald, is now talking with some confidence of a future broadacre farming system run by “swarms” of robotic […]
King of the Cotton Pickers You’re probably wearing something cotton-y right now. Cotton is fairly annoying to harvest. Mechanization was a quantum leap for the cotton industry, moving it away from archaic methods used since the days of slavery. This machine is the next step forward. Up until World War II, cotton harvesting in the […]
Wall-E-Like Farming Robots Could Replace Undocumented Workers and Save the US Billions Despite advancements in mechanization within US agriculture, some menial jobs are still best left to human workers. Problem is, federal crackdowns on undocumented laborers have decimated that workforce. The Harvester automaton could provide a cheap, readily available labor force without the threat of […]
Lettuce Gaze Upon the Future of Agriculture Florida has its oranges, Georgia has its peaches, and California has its lettuce. These leafy greens are the Golden State’s biggest vegetable crop, bringing in $1.6 billion annually. Problem is, they require a lot of attention to raise properly. Historically, California has relied of its abundant, affordable work […]
Agribusiness Sector and its Support Institutions The Agribusiness Sector The nature and character of farm agribusiness linkages in Nigeria can best be understood within the context of the Nigerian economy. Obviously, the supply of raw materials to the agro-industrial processing and manufacturing sector is a primary role of agriculture. This role also facilitates the other […]
Agribusiness Is Forcing Factory Dairy Farms Down Our Throats The current move to drive milk prices down in the UK is sinister. If allowed to continued, dairy farmers will go out of business, leaving a vacuum that can only be filled with CAFOs. by Heidi Stevenson Concentrated Animal Feed Operations – CAFOs – are one […]
Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit Bonanza for US Agribusiness Look to the giant ‘chicken jails’ or chicken factory farms around the world as a more likely source for emerging Bird Flu viruses, not to small peasant chicken farmers, and we might be closer to the truth Clouds can have ‘silver linings’ the adage […]
Globalization of Agribusiness and Developing World Food Systems The issue of the global concentration of agribusiness is crucial to the future of the food systems of developing (and poor, non-developing) countries. These countries have been a target of corporate investments from the outset of the industrial food system. This process has been uneven—at different times […]
Agaricus bisporus var bisporus Agaricus bisporus is a terricolous secondary decomposer fungus, which plays an ecologically significant role in the degradation of leaf and needle litter in temperate forests. Soils contain humic compounds derived from modified lignin and other recalcitrant aromatic compounds, presenting a different catabolic challenge to intact woody resources. Thus, A. bisporus forms […]
What’s wrong with a factory farm? I love a good steak. Most of us love a good steak. In fact, we love meat so much that consumption of beef, pork, chicken, veal and other animal protein is increasing at breakneck speeds all over the world. As developing nations like China and Brazil grow, their appetite […]
Factory Farms :Taxpayers Pay, Politicians Take, Agribusiness Profits The agribusiness giants would have us believe that our inherently unsustainable and morally reprehensible factory farming system is the only way to feed the world’s burgeoning population. But the facts prove otherwise. Factory farming is all about maximizing profits for a handful of the world’s largest corporations. […]
Engro Fertilizer earns Rs 3.2 billion profit Engro Fertilizers, an unlisted company, announced 9M2013 profits of Rs 3.23 billion (EPS Rs 2.77) as compared to loss of Rs 2.98 billion (LPS Rs 2.62) in the same period last year. This translates into EPS of Rs 6.33 as against LPS of Rs 5.83 on Engro Corp […]
Seafood exports surge by $85.2 million Pakistan’s seafood export surged by $85.202 million or over 34 percent during July-September period of the current fiscal year for a better global demand, exporters said on Tuesday. The country exported $85.202 million in July-September period of the current fiscal year as compared to the commodity’s export of $63.422 […]