• • • Retaliatory Tariffs Bite U.S. Farmers, Not the Importers For nine of the 11 commodities examined by ag lender CoBank, “U.S. producers – not the importing country or its consumers – paid the cost” of retaliatory tariffs. “U.S. farms are taking the brunt of the retaliatory tariffs placed…
• • • Efficiency of crop rotations with different proportions of red clover, silage and grain forage crops in the forest-steppe of the Irkutsk region Field forage production of the Irkutsk region provides Animal Husbandry with up to 80% of all the fodder. Most forage crops are integrated into field…
• • • Development of new cytogenetic markers for Thinopyrum ponticum Russian scientist Pavel Yu. Kroupin, Victoria M. Kuznetsova, Ekaterina A. Nikitina, Yury Ts. Martirosyan, Gennady I. Karlov, Mikhail G. Divashuk published materials about Thinopyrum ponticum (Podpěra, 1902) Z.-W. Liu & R.-C.Wang, 1993 is an important polyploid wild perennial Triticeae…
• • • Current state of forage production in Karelia and ways improving its effectiveness Progress in dairy farming directly depends on availability of forage resources. Balanced feeding (mostly by bulky feed) significantly affects productive longevity of livestock. Current state of forage production in Karelia was analyzed using statistical data…
• • • Russian Regions Purchase 9.5K Tractors & Harvesters The country passes through the active harvesting and crops sales period and agricultural equipment procurement has spiked. It is expected that in 2019 more equipment will be purchased compared to the previous year. Agricultural producers of the Russian Federation acquired…
• • • Eye on France: To bee or not to bee Over the past three decades, since the introduction of the family of insecticides known as neonicotinoids, Europe’s flying insect population has declined by three-quarters. That’s an awful lot of dead creatures. And think of the impact on the…
• • • Seed productivity of Isatis costata L. in the steppe zone of Khakassia According to their height plats were divided into three groups. Experiment tested potential and actual seed productivity, seed percentage, size and mass of 1000 fruits. Plants of all the groups significantly varied in height, number…
• • • Farm minister opened Farmer Expo in East Hungary Farm minister István Nagy opened Farmer Expo, an exhibition of farming and food products in eastern Hungary’s Debrecen which drew some 300 exhibitors. In his opening address, the minister highlighted the importance of developing irrigation technology, and said that…
• • • Preliminary trial of cocksfoot genotype SN-1/2 as a carrier of economically important traits Early maturing line of cocksfoot SN-1/2 was obtained through mass selection. Genotypic traits of SN-1/2 are: high productivity (49.3 and 8.7 t ha-1 of green and dry mass in total for two cuts, respectively),…
• • • «The mouse ran up the clock»… In the nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock, the worst that happened was “the mouse ran up the clock,” only to be scared away when “the clock struck one.” Mice and rodents aren’t so shy when they’re climbing around on machinery. Today,…
