• • • Australians are being urged to don a green shirt Now in its second year, National Agriculture Day is supported by the National Farmers’ Federation and Fairfax Agricultural Media. NFF president Fiona Simson said Australians were being asked to stop and consider how agriculture makes the world a…
• • • Complex mechanization and machinery in reclamation of degraded forage lands Fundamental improvement of degraded unused lands combines the development of new machines for land reclamation and increase of cultivated land area. This can be achieved through the introduction of modern “Machinery system for complex mechanization of melioration…
• • • Sergey Dankvert Held Talks with Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Republic of Paraguay Denis Lichi The meeting between the Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Paraguay took place in Moscow on October 29 of the current year…
• • • Fodder production in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): state and perspectives Nowadays the main production of Yakutian bulky feeds happens on natural haylands and pastures. Forage security of the republic makes up 60–70%. Main reasons of reduction in forage resources are: poor collection of agricultural equipment, absence…
• • • How will Brexit impact on animal feed? A ‘no-deal’ Brexit would be “an immense political failure on both sides of the equation”. That’s what Prof. Michael Wallace (Republic of Ireland) told delegates at the R&H Hall conference last month. He continued to say that it would result…
• • • A third of French bee colonies died last winter A report published by the French government, based on data gathered from over 13,000 beekeepers, found that nearly 30 per cent of the country’s bee colonies died in the winter of 2017-2018. The death rate jumped to 35…
• • • Evaluation of sweet sorghum resistance to head smut Development and introduction of disease-resistant varieties are economically effective and ecologically safe to increase grain production. Therefore, modern sorghum breeding aims at obtaining of both high-productive and disease-resistant varieties, including tolerance to head smut. The investigation was done to…
• • • IBM Develops Platform to Fulfill on the Promise of Digital Agriculture Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture is a suite of customized, cost-efficient solutions that help stakeholders in agriculture make faster, more informed decisions. This new platform is an innovation that draws on IBM’s most advanced capabilities in…
• • • Evaluation of promising lines of hungarian sainfoin (Оnobrychis arenaria) to be cultivated in the Dagestan arid area This report deals with ecological and biological parameters of hungarian sainfoin in the arid zone of Dagestan. The research aimed at selection of the most productive lines to be grown…
• • • International Forum and Exhibition will be held February 25-27, 2019 in Moscow Forum «Biotechnology: current state and future development. Life Sciences». Research reports, cutting-edge results, research in progress, discoveries and innovations, project presentations. Call for papers. Submission deadline is December 31, 2018. Key topics of the Forum:…
