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Source: HD.com As we provide the news for free, we are relying on revenues from our banners. The recent reform of the National Water Law marks a significant shift, introducing stricter controls and redefining how water is allocated, monitored, and reused across sectors, including protected horticulture. According to legal
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Source: HD.com As we provide the news for free, we are relying on revenues from our banners. This initiative, driven by collaboration between commercial growers and technical teams, represents a shift toward precision pest management tools in both greenhouse and open-field production systems. © Woolworths A decade of innovation Tom
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Source: AgFunderNews Key to financing a regenerative food system is getting more capital into the “missing middle”: the processing and distribution infrastructure needed to take regeneratively grown goods from field to consumer. This is a major challenge right now, as mills and storage facilities don’t fit neatly into any
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Source: Instrumentation and Control Engineering Their main purpose is to detect hazardous process conditions and drive the plant to a safe state before a serious incident occurs. Even a well-funded project can fail if the SIS is designed poorly, tested inadequately, or maintained without discipline. Safety Instrumented System design mistakes
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Source: HD.com As we provide the news for free, we are relying on revenues from our banners. "The decision by Biosecurity New Zealand to end the controls operation is great news for growers," said Kate Scott, chief executive of HortNZ. "We're pleased with the
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Source: AgFunderNews Rising costs and fertilizer shortages —turbocharged by war in the Persian Gulf—are already reshaping planting decisions for US farmers, says one record-holding farmer growing corn and soybeans, along with barley, oats, triticale, and wheat on 650-acres in Hickory, North Carolina. Russell Hedrick holds his state’s record
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Source: Instrumentation and Control Engineering Impact of Valve Selection on Energy Efficiency and System Stability Valves are more than just mechanical parts; they have a direct effect on: The stability and reaction time of process control loops. How often maintenance is done and how long the plant is down. Overview
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Source: AgFunderNews The crop protection industry urgently needs new solutions to combat herbicide and insecticide resistance and unlock new modes of action. Targeted protein degradation—which hijacks the internal “waste disposal” systems in pests and weeds to destroy proteins essential to their survival— is being pitched as a potential breakthrough,
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Source: VFD.com As we provide the news for free, we are relying on revenues from our banners. Vertical growing towers bring hydroponics into Dutch primary schools A "vertical kitchen garden on wheels" may sound elaborate, but in practice it is a tower of stacked plastic trays with
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Source: HD.com As we provide the news for free, we are relying on revenues from our banners. Hortiplan brings automated growing solutions to growers worldwide Belgian company Hortiplan, based in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, designs and installs automated cultivation systems for professional growers around the world. "We want to use our
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Source: AgFunderNews As resistance to legacy chemical herbicides spreads and biologicals struggle to scale, a new class of crop protection tools is emerging that aims to combine the best of both worlds. Quercus Biosolutions is designing “mini proteins” from scratch—leveraging AI tools first developed in drug discovery—to target
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Source: AgFunderNews Can tiny biological production factories ever give petrochemicals or animals a run for their money? And do we need cheaper feedstocks to unlock the next generation of bioproducts? AgFunderNews (AFN) caught up with Henrik Geertz-Hansen (HGH) at 21st Bio at Future Food-Tech in San Francisco to discuss the