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Maine State Prison: A History of Agriculture
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Great to see my friend Jon Collison featured in this Yara video. Jon and I attended Iowa State University together. Awesome to see him making a difference!
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“Fear memes, GMOs are dangerous, GMOs are poisoning your children, so the memes kept continuing. Then I saw more illustrations of fearmongering, especially against the seed companies. But our papaya is GMO. And sure enough, they came after us.”
Want to learn more? Read about the man behind the virus-resistant papaya variety called Rainbow here.
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The farming of sugar beets — a 27,000-acre crop in Colorado — has changed dramatically and become more sustainable in the last decade.
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Aerial application using drones.
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Digital Farming -
I believe the whole technology of image science is very much at the beginning. Recognizing environmental parameters remotely, without human interference, and interpreting them will lead to whole new data sources, which will transform how we look at agriculture.
Now that cameras are becoming more intelligent and can build on individual spectrum bands, we might be able to recognize the nutritional status of a plant or diseases with optics before the human eye can see a change.
The above is an excerpt from an interview with Bayer´s Head of Digital Farming, Tobias Menne.
Full interview available here: http://4-advice.net/blog/2016/08/18/digital-farming/
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Monsanto & Snapchat. Very cool. Follow Nick on twitter https://twitter.com/n_web.
Read about the Monsanto-Snapchat love affair here.
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I’m a big fan of Yara videos. They are beautifully produced and informative. In this recent video, Yara takes a look at agricultural sustainability in Latin America.
