…advanced mechanization tools to become economically viable for large scale production. “We no longer have the luxury to wait decades for similar innovations, significant investment in plant breeding, mechanical engineering,…
National Weed Your Garden Day
…5 or 10 minutes while weeding their gardens. One of the best gardening tips is to stay in control of your garden. Weeds grow very fast, fast, and can soon…
National Gardening Exercise Day
…physical and mental health. When you think about it, all of that work, whether it’s lifting heavy rocks, weeding, or hauling dirt, it all takes energy and energy means burning…
2016 California Raisin Grape Mechanical Harvest Report
…40 percent of their raisin-type grape acreage by mechanical means, respectively. By variety, Thompson Seedless grape acreage with mechanical harvesting is 33,373 or 24 percent of the total raisin-type grape…
Agri View: Farming Technology
…mechanical devices that are being invented, developed and produced to help farmers produce and harvest a crop. Machine and tools that can replace the human hand. We call it technology….
Agri View: Robot Farming
Everett Griner talks about what the mechanical engineers working on robot farming equipment in today’s Agri View. Download Robot Farming Well mechanical engineers are working right now to give us…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…mechanical thinning with his lettuce and romaine, and looking into mechanically harvesting onions, as he’s already doing with his carrots. “It’s going to push us into mechanization much quicker than…
Environmental Assessment for the Biological Control of Giant Reed
…Grande area of Texas. Giant reed infestations lead to loss of biodiversity, stream bank erosion, altered channel morphology, damage to bridges, increased costs for chemical and mechanical control along transportation…
Smelling Huanglongbing for Early-Detection
…a test that could lead to advances in fighting huanglongbing (HLB) disease in citrus. Researcher and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Christina Davis, said the test looks for a…
Olive Production Shifts as Result of Mechanization
…president and CEO of Chico-based California Olive Ranch, the nation’s largest olive oil producer. “That’s what has enabled us to compete,” he said. “Without mechanical harvesting, we just don’t have…
Forestry Experts Say Tree Mortality Brings Added Risk
…oak species are doing quite well.” Meyer cited mechanical thinning and prescribed burning as treatments used by the Forest Service to improve forest conditions, adding, “Some of these landscapes can…
Support for Minority and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers
…Florida, $148,368 North South Institute, Inc., Florida, $199,507 Global Growers Network Inc., Georgia, $196,698 Lei Ho’olaha, Hawaii, $100,000 The Kohala Center, Hawaii, $200,000 Southern University Agricultural and Mechanical College, Louisiana;…
Experts Interpret Overtime Bill’s Effect on Farms
…trays,” he said. Little said he spoke with a winegrape grower last week who has a large portion of his operation already set up for mechanical harvest, and who intends…
Agri View: More Ag Technology
…And, don’t forget pest control and fertilizer composition. With all of his mechanical advantages, a farmer cannot produce a harvestable crop today if he had to use the seed, fertilizer…