New technology protects crops by testing the air for the DNA of plant diseases
Plant infections can now be detected in our crops before they're even visible.
Biotechnology
Aug 6, 2024
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News tagged with farmer
How a mix of old and new techniques produced a superior maize harvest in a dry part of South Africa
New research into rural small-scale farms in South Africa's North West province has found that climate-smart farming techniques lead to a better maize yield, a more regular supply of food for the farmers, and a wider variety ...
Agriculture
Aug 19, 2024
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How farmers and tech teamed up to better test crops
For over a decade, farmers across the world have been working hand-in-hand with researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and their collaborators to develop a better way to test new crop varieties and ...
Agriculture
Aug 9, 2024
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How media impacts digital technology adoption in US and Brazilian agriculture
Digital technologies on the farm improve efficiency, productivity, and profits, but few farmers are taking full advantage of available tools. According to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers, communication ...
Agriculture
Aug 7, 2024
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Shaping dairy farm vaccination decisions: Social pressure and vet influence
A new study by Prof. Eyal Klement and Ph.D. Student Michal Morgenstern from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at the Hebrew University, in collaboration with Dr. Jaap Sok from the Business Economics Department at Wageningen ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 6, 2024
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Farmer-led badger vaccination could revolutionize mission to tackle bovine TB
A new study highlights the need for government support for large-scale badger vaccination to eradicate bovine tuberculosis.
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2024
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Bluetongue anguish for Dutch farmers
One sheep dribbles, another limps, a third can barely stand: the bluetongue virus is causing havoc for Dutch farmer Erik van Norel, who thought he had seen the back of it.
Agriculture
Aug 30, 2024
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'Five years of fire': Romanian farms wilt in drought
Desiccated leaves crackled underfoot as Romanian farmer Iulia Blagu walked through her scorched cornfield, devastated by one of the country's worst droughts in recent years.
Environment
Aug 15, 2024
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A rare aid success story has brought riches to a hardscrabble corner of the Pacific. Will it last?
There is so much money sloshing around these days in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, the stores are running short of goods and some locals are partying until dawn.
Agriculture
Aug 8, 2024
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Wasps help farmers fight mealybug pest in Kenya
Papaya farmers in Kenya are turning to a novel solution to combat the devastating papaya mealybug pest—parasitic wasps.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2024
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Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are farm workers, farmhands, etc.
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