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Deep soil data helps boost productivity
2015-12-17 20:57:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Knowledge of 60 data layers within 4-foot deep soil profile may help fine-tune management zones. As Woodrill Farms looks for ways to boost productivity, it is taking a deep-down look at soils to help drive decisions it hopes will help it maintain or boost its current year-over-year trend-line average corn yield increase. read more
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Best galleries of 2015: New tractors, mobile apps for farming, tillage, land values, soil fertility and more
2015-12-11 23:48:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
As farmers worked hard in 2015 to produce crops, we worked hard to bring you the best stories and information to help you farm smarter, and be more profitable. From new farm equipment to mobile apps to use on the farm, soil fertility tips to land values and other tips to make harvest better, we've offered a plethora of information in our galleries this year. Here are the top galleries for 2015. read more
Vital soil saving techniques being trialled as International Year of Soils comes to end
2015-12-06 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As World Soil Day on 5th December 2015 marks the ending of the International Year of Soils, it is reassuring to know that scientists will still be working to find solutions to protect our soils. 2015 was declared International Year of Soils by the United Nations in order to raise awareness of the profound importance of soil for human life[i]. As well as providing us with food and fibre, soils can also play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon and decreasing greenhouse...
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Battling climate change - with worms and soil conservation
2015-12-06 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown. "That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I'd see anything like that!" said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind. For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and...
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AgriScience Inc. Smart Soil Pilot Demonstration Shows 48% Crop Yield Increase And Nearly 100% Prevention Of Nutrient Pollution
2015-11-30 05:30:37| pollutiononline Home Page
Today AgriScience, Inc. (ASI) released results from a pilot demonstration of its Smart Soil technology for driving increased crop yields by preventing the run-off of fertilizer nutrients
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