Crops can be classified in a variety of ways. Understanding the peculiarities of different types of crops is essential for successful farming.
Normally, farming businesses of this type raise the livestock for eventual slaughter and processing to supply meats in supermarkets. Depending on the prevailing culture in a given country, this type of farm may be referred to as a ranch, with the owners known as ranchers rather than farmers. ...
Reasons for converting to organic farming have been studied in a number of instances. However, the underlying rationale that motivates the behavior is not always made clear. This study aims to provide a detailed picture of farmers' decision-making and illustrate the choice between organic and ...
People who work on farms are called farmers. A farm can also be called an agricultural holding, a ranch, or an orchard. There are over 570 million farms in the world, most of which are fairly small and family-operated. Small farms with a land area of less than 2 hectares make up ...
thus the impacts of farmland transfers on the farmland investment are different;(2)if the market competition level of the farmers' agricultural production is higher then the impacts of farmland transfer on the farmland investment will be greater,and also the scale effect of agricultural production ...
Using our crop monitoring system for agricultural fields, farmers can get data on field elevation and how the productivity of the field has changed over time. It shows the trend of how the vegetation was developing over a selected period. With this information, a farmer can decide on ...
It’s really best to prepare the soil a few months in advance with lots of rich organic matter such as compost so that the soil settles down by spring planting. If you do use a synthetic fertilizer, use a slow-release fertilizer.
About 25% of US farmers (250,000+ farms) are using smart farming technologies at the moment. That’s not a lot, but smart agriculture will become more important than ever before in just several decades. We need smart farming to:
Fungi belong to their own kingdom. Compared to higher plants and animals, they obtain their nutrition through a range of ways including degradation of organic material and symbiosis (as lichen) among others. As such, they are categorized as heterotrophic because they are unable to synthesize ...
Other types of Plant Nutrition A wide range of so called fertilizing products can help farmers to adapt their fertilization practices to their environmental and farm conditions: organic fertilizer, organo-mineral fertilizer, mineral fertilizer incl. inhibitors, liming material, growing media, plant biosti...