• • • Evaluation of promising red clover tetraploid samples in competitive variety trial The article presents the results of a competitive field trial of new tetraploid varieties of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.). Two cycles of research were carried out according to standard methods in the All-Russian Williams Fodder…
• • • Grassley’s Farm Bill Challenge: Limit Subsidies to Actual Farmers Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to tighten down access to U.S. farm subsidies, a lightning-rod issue as Congress tries to update ag and public nutrition programs this year. “Why can’t we require farmers who collect huge sums of…
• • • Hungary: The current level of support for subsidies for certain sectors is under strain The European Union budget for financing farm subsidies (Common Agricultural Policy – CAP) is too small, especially in light of proposals that would place extra burdens on farmers and introduce greater complexity into…
• • • Mixed swards — resources for feed protein increase Experiment took place on the trial field of the All-Russian Research Institute of Meliorated Lands, located in south-east of the Tver region. It analyzed feed, protein and energy yields of three-component grass mixtures. Grass mixtures included varieties of read…
• • • The French government reiterated to ban glyphosate-based herbicides by 2021 The weedkiller, introduced in the 1970s by US agro-giant Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, is suspected by some scientists of causing cancer, with a 2015 WHO (World Health Organisation) study determining it was “probably carcinogenic”. Last…
• • • Influence of pasture-protective forest belts of black saxaul on natural pasture productivity in the desert The paper deals with development of pasture-protective forest belts of black saxaul and their positive influence on pasture flora, growing in deserts and semi-deserts in Central Asia. Locations, suitable for black saxaul,…
• • • XXIV International Grassland Congress. XI International Rangeland Congress. 25-30 October 2020, Nairobi, Kenya The National Organizing Committee of the Joint International Grasslands Congress/International Rangelands Congress invite abstracts for panels, papers and posters to be presented at this global conference, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 25…
• • • Combination ability of haploid lines of spring rapeseed One of the main goals in rapeseed breeding is obtaining interline hybrids showing high level of heterosis. The first step in breeding heterosis hybrids is developing a bug number of homozygous lines, evaluation of their qualitative and quantitative traits…
• • • ARGERSENS are running virtual rings around the competition with the official commercial launch of the e-Shepherd at Beef 2018 Launched by the former Deputy Prime Minister, the Honourable Tim Fischer AC, the eShepherd is a GPS enabled, solar powered smart collar system which enables producers to ‘virtually’…
• • • 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…
