Lucknow: A 55-year-old farmer, who ran from pillar to post for fertilizer, died of a heart attack on Friday in a queue outside a fertilizer store in Lalitpur district. He would have been waiting for his turn for two days. The late Bhogi Pal, from Nayagaon village in Birdha blockRead More →
Stroll through Daryl Hunter’s apple orchard and walk through history – along an ancient Roman road, through the court of King Louis XIII of France, to the home of the Niagara Peninsula by Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812. In some places in his orchard, you’ll get aRead More →
News 12 Staff 20 Oct 2021, 23:04 Updated: October 21, 2021, 2:41 p.m. There seems to be a competition for just about everything these days. And a man from New Jersey is the reigning corn crop champion. Farmer Sam Santini, of Stewartsville, drives a combine through a field in theRead More →
New Wisconsin farmer satisfied with soybean trial plot and overall yields A Wisconsin farmer who regularly experiments with soybean planting dates and row spacing is very pleased with this year’s yields. Ryan Nell told Brownfield: “Every bean and corn field we have done so far this year has been aRead More →
Gabriel Muteshi, (right) with Sammy Shiroko (left) at a Hass avocado farm in the Luvambo region of Shinyalu sub-county on September 30, 2021. [Nathan Ochunge Standard] After suffering huge losses in tea cultivation, Gabriel Muteshi, an electrical engineer, began to think about venturing into other cultures. The prices offered byRead More →
Express news service MANGALURU: His father wanted him to be an engineer, but this 61-year-old farmer from a village in Dakshina Kannada district had a rather progressive outlook. After completing the pre-university course he chose to be a farmer and now he has gained the attention of many for hisRead More →
The United States imports more fruits and vegetables than ever before as a shortage of farm and farm workers persists, according to a report by the New American Economy (NAE). As the market for fresh fruits and vegetables has grown over the past 30 years, it appears that American consumersRead More →
Nowadays, farmers have more access than ever to all kinds of data on their crops, thanks to the rapid development of sensor and telemetry technologies over the past decades. Yet the adoption rate of sensors for agricultural operations is still low, possibly due to cost, ease of adaptation to sensor-basedRead More →
By Daniel Grant | Farm week The excitement for the start of the harvest ignited within minutes at Ropp Farms near Normal in McLean County. And that left veteran farmer Ken Ropp and his farm manager, Brett Yoder, thankful that there were no injuries or major losses on their farmRead More →
If you step out into the woods today, you might just find the ingredients for a gourmet feast, with the help of a few experts in their field. That’s the premise behind Wild Harvest, the latest offering from documentary filmmaker Les Stroud, whose work over a 30-year career includes theRead More →