“Past governments have allocated serious money to encourage freight off our roads, but unlike the national highway network, rail freight services are still hampered by state differences, and safety, signalling and regulatory restrictions, which discourage their use and further investment. Click to check the original article.
“Past governments have allocated serious money to encourage freight off our roads, but unlike the national highway network, rail freight services are still hampered by state differences, and safety, signalling and regulatory restrictions, which discourage their use and further investment. Click to check the original article.
CNH, through its investment arm CNH Ventures, is supporting the scientific development of the first viable compostable net wrap for bales in agriculture. “Our investment in the Canadian start-up Nature’s Net Wrap aims to accelerate their mission to eliminate waste from the process of collecting and storing crops,” CNH says. Shifting to compostable net wraps […]
Stephanie Trethewey, 34, experienced that crippling isolation herself when she moved from Melbourne to a beef farm in Tasmania’s central north with her husband and first baby. So, in 2019, the former TV journalist set up national charity Motherland to connect mothers raising children on the land, along with her podcast, Motherland Australia. Click to […]
Sorghum harvest kicked off last week in the Darling Downs adding further pressure to the already soft grain prices. Click to check the original article.
A collaborative study between animal agtech startup MyAnIML and the USDA successfully corroborated the technology’s predictive ability to proactively manage devastating disease outbreaks in cattle production. MyAnIML used proprietary facial recognition and deep learning technology to accurately predict Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), or bovine pinkeye, 99.4% of the time and several days before veterinarians were […]
Vineyards fight disease brought on by unpredicted conditions. Click to check the original article.
By Lawton Stewart, University of Georgia Extension Many beef cattle producers are about to start their calving season. Forage availability in many regions is variable. Some places saw severe drought in late summer/early fall, causing producers to feed more hay and deplete their winter hay supply. Other producers were able to put up plenty of […]
You may not know it, but cows share information every time they burp, moo, and chew that speaks volumes about their health and welfare. Through the work of researchers in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, more may soon be known about what cows are “telling” us through those vocalizations. James Chen, an […]
Precision Livestock Technologies (PLT), a leading provider of software and hardware solutions related to livestock feeding and health, has introduced the first system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict cattle feed intake and make feeding recommendations. The system generates daily quantitative feeding predictions based on hundreds of data points gathered from PLT’s machine vision […]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack dropped into the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention in Salt Lake City on Monday to talk farm policy. During remarks at the convention’s general session, he said he considered conserving the land and conserving the right to farm a “sacred responsibility.” He noted that since 1981, the nation lost more […]
Storms spark blazes and knock out all communication. Click to check the original article.