• • • Will animal feed supply be affected by Brexit? The Irish Grain and Feed Association (IGFA) is one of organisations that being proactive ahead of the Brexit. Our high livestock population and a declining tillage area means this country imports a large amount of ingredients for animal feed.…
• • • New clover species (Trifolium pannonicum Jacq.) for feed production of the Kaliningrad region A new species — perennial Hungarian clover (Trifolium pannonicum Jacq.) variety ‘Premier’ — supplemented feed reserve of the Kaliningrad region. A clover is early ripening; 52–65 days elapsed from spring aftergrowing till mowing mature,…
• • • Big savings with in-furrow nitrogen use A Kalannie continuous cropping family has reduced its urea and ammonium nitrate (UAN) usage by up to 30 per cent thanks to direct injection equipment from Liquid Systems (SA). It has been achieved with nitrogen delivered directly to the seed bed…
• • • Legume-gramineous silage in milking cow diet Mixtures of legumes and gramineous, growing under sufficient water availability, provide more high-quality fodder, balanced in all the basic nutrition elements. The report specifies cutting periods of mixtures. Introduction of perennial bastard alfalfa “Vega 87” into legume-gramineous mixtures increased their productive…
• • • Improved crops can double European agriculture production Ensuring sufficient food to feed the global population in 2050 requires a major rise in agricultural production – the equivalent of a yield growth of between 70% and 100%. Wageningen University & Research is working within the CropBooster-P EU project…
• • • Dmitry Patrushev to head Russian delegation at the International Green Week exhibition in Berlin From January 18 to January 27, Berlin will host the 84th International Green Week exhibition, which is one of the largest global events in agriculture. About 1,700 exhibitors from more than 60 countries…
• • • Festulolium as grass mixture with red clover Three field experiments in 2012, 2014 and 2015 showed Festulolium, cultivated with red clover varieties of different ripening rate, to compete effectively with common timothy mixtures in dry matted (DM) yield. Festulolium mixtures with clovers (long-season “Kirovskiy 159” and ultra…
• • • Biotech and Seed Industry Groups Form Agricultural Innovation Initiative The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) have launched Innovature, a new platform that will focus on food and agricultural innovation. The aim of Innovature is to be a resource for those interested…
• • • Continuous cultivation of spring wheat on the Trans-Ural chernozem The paper reports on long-term field trial, comparing the effectiveness of continuous cropping to fallow-wheat rotation in the forest steppe of Trans-Urals. Continuous growing of spring wheat were similar to the second and third wheat cultivation after the…
• • • The Conference “Where the margin is 2019” will be held on February 6-7, 2019, in the Radisson Slavianskaya Hotel in Moscow 10-th International Conference for agricultural producers and suppliers of agricultural inputs and services is meant for agricultural producers, farm land investors, inputs manufacturers, dealers and distributors, financiers,…
