• • • DLG-Feldtage 2018: Crop Production 2030 – Productivity. Innovations. Strategies. German farmers are currently faced with a long list of challenges that are impacting on their businesses, according to the president of the DLG (German Agricultural Society), Hubertus Paetow. Addressing agricultural journalists at Neugattersleben, Germany, he said the…
• • • Cover crop effect on Festulolium for seed production Novel crop, Festulolium, is a hybrid of Festucа spp. and Lolium spp. Hybrids combine traits of both parents. Different varieties resemble morphologically either ryegrass or fescue. Compared to original parental forms — meadow and tall fescues and perennial and…
• • • The French agriculture ministry has slammed proposed cuts to the EU farming budget as “unacceptable” The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a draft budget under which funding for farmers across the bloc via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would fall by around five percent. That amounts to…
• • • Silage making and storing in plastic vacuum containers Paper presents the intensive technology of silage production and storage in plastic vacuum containers. The technology includes green mass preparation by the conventional method, using trivial forage harvesters. The equipment is offered, consisted of special block, bag and container,…
• • • Cargill Soybeans Part of Single Blockchain Transaction In the world of global commodity trading, letters of credit are widely used to finance deals between importers and exporters, which helps guarantee more than $2 trillion in transactions. However, the process creates a long paper trail and can take…
• • • 5th International Zinc Symposium – 5-7 September 2018, Leuven, Belgium The 5th International Zinc Symposium is a scientific conference to review the latest knowledge and best agricultural practices in addressing zinc deficiency and it’s impact on global crop production and human health. The conference will provide new…
• • • Testing oil crop — noog (Guizotia abyssinica Cass.) Niger seed (noog) (Guizotia abyssinica Cass.) is a new oil crop for Russia, having the number of economically important traits. Therefore, cultivation of this poorly studied plant allows increasing biodiversity and improving collection of introduced field crops. Paper deals…
• • • 42nd International Phosphate Fertilizer & Sulfuric Acid Technology Conference Each year for the last 41 years, members of the AIChE Central Florida Section and colleagues from all over the world have gathered at Clearwater Beach to share their ideas concerning Chemical Process Technology, specifically the production of…
• • • Effect of growth regulators on soybean in the South of Ukraine Paper presents the results on field trials related to effectiveness of growth regulators on middle-early soybean varieties “Aratta” and “Sofiya” in the South of Ukraine under irrigation. It was revealed that treating soybean by preparations “Megafol”…
• • • Agricultural grants benefit not only farmers, but everyone who buys foodstuffs as well Ministry of Agriculture The livelihoods of at least one million agricultural producers, employees and their relatives depend on agricultural grants partly or in their entirety, and therefore it is crucial that their current level…
