Author name: Direct Driller

Nutritional Benefits Of Regeneratively Grown Crops

A new American study shows how regenerative farming practices — soil-building techniques that minimise ploughing, the use of cover crops, plant diverse rotations etc — affect the nutritional content of the food Everyone knows fruit and vegetable are good for your health says the University of Washington News, but which of the dizzying array of …

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The 8TH World Congress On Conservation Agriculture

The Future of Farming: Profitable and Sustainable Farming with Conservation Agriculture Held virtually in June 2021 in Switzerland and attended by 783 participants from farmer associations, international organisations, scientific institutions, private sector, non-governmental and civil society organizations, from more than 108 countries, from the developed and developing world. The main objective of the 8WCCA was …

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Welcome To The 8TH World Congress On Conservation Agriculture

Speech given by Professor Amir Kassam Friends, This is an historic day for the CA movement. It was twenty years ago that ECAF, the European Conservation Agriculture Federation, organized the First World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in partnership with FAO. Today, thanks to continued support from FAO and ECAF as well as other sponsors and …

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Soil Farmer Of The Year

The Soil Farmer of the Year competition has been running since 2015, providing a platform for individuals andbusinesses to demonstrate how soil management can build environmental and economic resilience. The competition aims to recognise, promote and champion farmers who are passionate about safeguarding their soils and demonstrates how despite the vast variation across the agricultural …

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Autonomous Agricultural Machinery, Precision Technologies And Controlled Row Farming

At Amazone, the topic of autonomous agricultural machinery has been at the forefront ever since the BoniRob project was launched together with Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Robert Bosch GmbH in 2008. The BoniRob field robot was a milestone in robotics and way ahead of its time. Many technological and legal questions still had …

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