2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (269+ words) Since the second week of Bhadau (late August), the rice has started ripening, and women here are increasingly worried about how they will bring the harvested rice home. They are also concerned about how to protect the rice from pests…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (479+ words) Besides chronic wasting disease, blue tongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease, white-tailed deer in Arkansas might face a new threat in the form of New World screwworm. At the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's monthly committee meetings on Aug. 19, Catherine Love,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (479+ words) Besides chronic wasting disease, blue tongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease, white-tailed deer in Arkansas might face a new threat in the form of New World screwworm. At the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's monthly committee meetings on Aug. 19, Catherine Love,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (479+ words) Besides chronic wasting disease, blue tongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease, white-tailed deer in Arkansas might face a new threat in the form of New World screwworm. At the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's monthly committee meetings on Aug. 19, Catherine Love,…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (112+ words) CBC Manitoba 'flying farmhand' turns to drones to spray crops Zack Wiebe, who farms near the southern Manitoba city of Morden, is using a drone, rather than a traditional plane sprayer, to dust his crops. The technology can help reduce…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (196+ words) Drought conditions continue to affect everyone in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, and that includes farmers. A majority of the viewing area is experiencing "severe" or "extreme" drought conditions according to the most recent update from the US Drought…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (132+ words) The technology, called BioDrop, helps increase the biological efficiency of crop protection. Drones release capsules along a pre-programmed route; once on the ground, insects gradually emerge and begin targeting pests. Drone distribution is four to six times faster than manual…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (355+ words) USDA Opens Public Comment on Pioneer’s Insect-Resistant Biotech Soybean global-agriculture.com The soybean has been engineered to express three insecticidal proteins, Cry1B.34.1, Cry1B.61.1, and IPD083Cb, intended to protect the plant against susceptible lepidopteran pests, the insect order that includes moths and their larvae,…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (306+ words) Saharanpur: Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane department has deployed 36 drones across Saharanpur division to help farmers spray pesticides, medicines and nutrients on sugarcane crops during the monsoon, when waterlogging often makes it difficult to enter fields, News 18 reported. The drones have been…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (417+ words) Whangamarino is an internationally significant Ramsar wetland and faces a range of threats from invasive plants and animals. DOC Technical Advisor Susan Emmitt says the trial project, undertaken by specialist contractor Fabian Döweler (Bushcraft Analytics), has used machine learning to…...