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Syngenta rolls out new corn hybrids

Syngenta Seeds, Inc. has introduced 140 new corn hybrids, including 41 featuring the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack, company officials say.
These new hybrids will be sold by Garst, Golden Harvest and NK Seeds. The new hybrids, available for planting in 2011, offer growers additional choices to maximize yield performance under various growing conditions and soil [...]

Weather forecast favorable for soy harvest

The soybean harvest in the United States is off to a slow start this year. Probably unknown to most is the fact that our five percent completion pace as of this past Sunday was the fourth slowest since 1987, with only 1993, 1996, and 2009 being years with less harvested by September 25.
We are going [...]

Can’t plant? Don’t worry yet

If you’re pacing a trough in your shop or office floor waiting for things to warm up and dry out, all the while worrying about how much corn yield potential you’re losing by not getting your crop planted in the timeframe you had hoped, don’t let it get you too far down. 
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PepsiCo to Apply High-Tech Solutions to Ag Water Conservation

In a striking marriage between the oldest and newest technologies, PepsiCo today unveiled plans to roll out a web-based software tool to help farmers manage and reduce their water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
The food and beverage giant will bring its “i-crop” farming technology to the world, beginning with Europe in 2011, then to the [...]

Global Warming & Agriculture

Today global warming is always discussed heatedly.It has grate impact on a lot of things,such as climate ,environment,agriculture,etc.
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. According to the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), [...]

Something About Strawberries

Unknown to most people, Strawberries is highly nutritious. Strawberries contain high levels of Vitamin C. In fact, a cup satisfies 140% of our required daily dosage of Vitamin C. It also contains significant amounts of vitamins B2, B5, B6, and K, manganese, iodine, potassium, folic acid, omega 3 fatty acids, magnesium, copper and fiber.
Moreover, strawberries contain phytonutrients and [...]

New Research About Rice

PhilRice promotes new rice varieties for adverse environments.
PhilRice advances the use of newly-developed varieties for adverse environments during the Institute’s field day, which was recently participated by more than 1,500 farmers and agriculture college students.
“[Adverse environments] and climate change have direct effects on rice production. Decrease in yield is expected when sea level increases, temperature [...]