Month: August 2017

Keywords: USA , soybean , production According to the Crop Production report issued today by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. farmers are expected to produce a record-high soybean crop this year. Up 2 percent from 2016, soybean production is forecast at 4.38 billion bushels. However corn growers are expected to decrease their production by… Continue reading USDA forecasts record-high soybean production in 2017

Keywords: Vertical farming , forecast , growth According to a newly published report from Acumen Research and Consulting, the global vertical farming market is projected to grow at a noteworthy CAGR of around 25% during the period from 2016 to 2023. And it will reach the market size of over $6 billion by 2023. Some of… Continue reading Global vertical farming market to grow at significant rate of around 25% in coming years

July 27, Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department organized the Shaanxi Province seed industry science and technology innovation results conference. Since the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, Shaanxi Province has focused on the development of modern agriculture and rural economy with science and technology, organized and implemented a number of major scientific and technological projects with innovation… Continue reading Shaanxi seed industry innovation achievement excellence

Keywords: Performance Plants , Bayer Crop Science , drought tolerant , cotton , collaboration Performance Plants Inc. (PPI) is  a leading developer of agricultural biotechnologies for crop improvement world-wide. It announces that the company has reached an important crop performance target in the development of drought tolerant and high-yielding cotton. The used technology is PPI’s Yield… Continue reading Performance Plants announces key advancement of drought tolerant cotton in Bayer Crop Science product development collaboration

Keywords: Rice , China , U.S. , export U.S. rice exports to China are yet to go through legal procedures, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Wednesday. The first China-U.S. Comprehensive Economic Dialogue (CED) held on July 19, 2017. At that time the two countries reached an agreement on inspection and quarantine protocols for U.S. rice… Continue reading U.S. rice exports to China yet to go through legal procedures

In order to strengthen the unified management of the national maize variety consortium test, standardize the joint test to ensure the overall quality of the national maize variety test, the National Agricultural Technology Center issued a notice from the end of July, the organization of the provincial seed management and experts The supervision and inspection… Continue reading National Corn Consortium Test began

Keywords: Brazil , USA , soybean , production Brazilian farmers have steadily increased their market share in world grain and oilseed production over the last few decades. And in the next decade, they will surpass the United States in soybean production. Brazil is already the world’s largest soybean exporter and they are poised to become the… Continue reading Brazil poised to surpass the U.S. in soybean production

Keywords: India , NGO , farmer , pesticide , fertilizer , farming The government running centres and universities are not helping farmers in addressing their issues. But an NGO dedicated to farmers has come to their rescue from the problems. This NGO is named ‘Dr Surinder Dalal Keet Saksharta Mission’. It is named after a Haryana-based… Continue reading India: NGO educates farmers about good farming practices

According to the provisions of the Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products and the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the Work Arrangement of Food Safety in 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture organized a total of two national and agricultural products in the first half of… Continue reading Ministry of Agriculture released the first half of 2017 national agricultural product quality and safety routine monitoring (risk monitoring) information

Keywords: Wheat , rice , crop , heat-tolerant crop Harkamal Walia is an associate professor of agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been awarded a $5.78 million National Science Foundation grant to explore the affects of high nighttime temperatures on wheat and rice. The stress of high nighttime temperatures can lead to… Continue reading University of Nebraska-Lincoln leads research into heat-tolerant crops