These devices collect information about livestock, crops, soil, water and machinery, and other field management variables. These data points are stored in a cloud-based farm management platform where they can be analyzed for areas of improvement. They also can be used to set up an alert and ...
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LIVESTOCK productivityFORAGE plantsSPRINGAUTUMNCROPSExtending the grazing season, and thereby reducing reliance on harvested and stored forages, positively affects the economics of grazing livestock. In the Southern Great Plains and Southeastern regions of the U. S., grazing systems are ...
Including corn in your diet can lower the risk of diabetes and hypertension. The antioxidants present in corn are believed to improve eye health. Corn can be made into flour or syrup and it is also commonly used to feed livestock. Corn can also be transformed into ethanol, which can be ...
Corn and soybeans, for example, can be repurposed as livestock feed or sold to secondary markets like the biofuel industry. The markets for these crops have also gone global, and much of the harvest even in big producing countries like the US and China is ultimately sold for export. ...
Meanwhile, the livestock commodities sector has faced growing calls to address sustainability and environmental concerns.12Consumers are increasingly interested in knowing, e.g., the industry’s carbon footprint and are looking for protein from more sustainable farming sources.13 ...
What Are the Three Main Categories of Agribusiness? Agribusiness can be split into three major categories—agriculture, livestock, and forestry.1 Agriculture includes activities like planting and harvesting crops. Livestock concerns raising animals for products like milk, eggs, or meat. Forestry involves...
In Italy, agroforestry has traditionally been a key component of landscape management. Complex systems, based on the integration among crops–livestock–fruit/forest trees, provided a wide variety of products (e.g. food, feed, fibers, fuelwood and timber) and other ecosystem services (e.g. ...
China, the high level of human activities and the strength of the associated impacts result from cultivation, grazing, destruction or harvesting of herbaceous vegetation and logging forests to produce firewood and rural construction materials. The local crops are mainly wheat, potato and cotton and ...
Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. As important as crops,metalsandenergyare to the planet, none of them matter without water. Every agricultural crop that feeds the planet needs it to grow. Farmers couldn’t raise chickens,cows,pigs, or any livestock without massive quanti...