El biólogo Mohamed Híjri saca a la luz una crisis agrícola de la cual nadie está hablando: Nos estamos quedando sin fósforo, un elemento esencial que es un componente clave del ADN y la base de la comunicación celular. Todos esta crisis nos lleva a mirar como cosechamos - con fertilizantes químicos hasta los topes del elemento, que las plantas no son capaces de absorber. ¿Una solución? Tal vez ... un hongo microscópico.
Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus, an essential element that's a key component of DNA and the basis of cellular communication. All roads of this crisis lead back to how we farm — with chemical fertilizers chock-full of the element, which plants are not efficient at absorbing. One solution? Perhaps … a microscopic mushroom...
By:Gene Johnston Agclimate4U.org is a new one-stop website for weather and crop data to help you make agronomic and marketing decisions.Here’s a website that all farm weather junkies will want to bookmark: agclimate4U.org.The site is a project of state and agricultural university climatologists, agronomists, and marketing experts. Built with USDA funding, they say it’s a one-stop shop for useful and interactive weather tools that can help with decisions involving crop insurance, fertilizer timing, and even marketing. “It’s all been out there [...]
By: Jodie Wehrspann Top executives from leading farm machinery manufacturers met onstage earlier this month to discuss their thoughts on what’s next in agriculture and the issues that will affect the farming industry. The AEM Ag Executive Outlook was hosted by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers during the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville, Ky. Max Armstrong broadcast director, Penton Agriculture and host of ‘This Week In AgriBusiness’ moderated the two-hour event. Panelists included the following: • Todd Stucke, vice president, sales, marketing & product [...]
Some jobs are so mind-numbing and backbreaking that no one with other options wants to do them. Cue the robots. Harvest Automation, a 31-employee startup in Billerica, Massachusetts, designs robots that arrange pots in nurseries and greenhouses. It's a monotonous task, and the associated labor represents 40 percent of growers' costs in a $17 billion market. So far, Harvest Automation has about $25 million in funding and 29 customers, most of which start out with four of the $30,000 [...]
Los avances en la robótica están revolucionando industrias por todo el mundo. Pero no todos los robots parecen arañas con ojos de Wall-E. También existen robots que retiran las plantas no deseadas de los cultivos y robots encargados de mantener la temperatura o la hidratación de los cultivos bajo control. Harvest Automation, una empresa australiana, le cuenta a New Scientist como ha logrado desarrollar robots para la agricultura desde hace muchos años. La escasez de la mano de obra agrícola y los [...]
By: Laurie Bedord WinField is teaming up with Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Technology Partners to build it’s Data Silo. This cloud-based data-management system helps farmers work with their retail partners to optimize the value of their agronomic tools and make data-driven decisions. “In order to see revolutionary progress in agriculture technology, we must make it easy for the industry to widely adopt and use it,” says Teddy Bekele, vice president of IT, WinField. “We’re finding the right people to help us [...]
By: Laurie Bedord U.S. retail sales of farm tractors under 40 hp. were up 33.2% for March 2016 and up 26.1% year-to-date, compared with the same time periods last year. The 2WD category of 40- to 100-hp. tractors saw retail sales increase 10.1% in March compared with last year. This brings year-to-date growth to 3.2%. Higher horsepower tractors didn’t fair as well. Two-wheel-drive tractors over 100 hp. declined 32.9%, and January to March 2016 sales of 4WD tractors dropped 38.2% compared with the first quarter [...]
Confianza: ¿Cómo se puede ganar? Los bancos utilizan las puntuaciones de crédito para determinar si una persona es digna de confianza, sin embargo hay alrededor de 2,5 millones de personas de todo el mundo que no puntuacion de crédito y no pueden obtener un préstamo para iniciar un negocio, comprar una casa o de otro tipo de inversion para mejorar sus vidas. Escucha cómo TED Fellow Shivani Siroya esta desbloqueando el acceso a poder adquisitivo en paises en via [...]
Trust: How do you earn it? Banks use credit scores to determine if you're trustworthy, but there are about 2.5 billion people around the world who don't have one to begin with — and who can't get a loan to start a business, buy a home or otherwise improve their lives. Hear how TED Fellow Shivani Siroya is unlocking untapped purchasing power in the developing world with InVenture, a start-up that uses mobile data to create a financial identity. [...]
