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Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry – each animal genetically identical to the next – ...Read more -
Integrated pest management a focus at 2017 Greenhouse Growers Expo
Education sessions at the 2017 Michigan Greenhouse Growers Expo offer updates and emerging techniques for producing greenhouse crops that satisfy consumer interest. Over the last decade or so, there has been a steady surge of public interest in how and where our agricultural commodities are produ...Read more -
Insecticide Chalk
Insecticide Chalk by Donald Lewis, Department of Entomology “It’s d j vu all over again.” In the Horticulture and Home Pest News, April 3, 1991, we included an article about the hazards of using illegal “insecticide chalk” for household pest control. The p...Read more -
The assessment of herbicides application with biostimulants and adjuvants in carrot
The studies were conducted in 2010–2011 at the Research Institute of Horticulture in Skierniewice. The aim of the research was to determine the impact of separate and combined application of biostimulants Asahi SL and AlfaMax, adjuvants Olbras 88 EC and Protector on efficacy of metribuzin and lin...Read more -
How does artificial intelligence affect agricultural development?
Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy and the top priority in the economic and social development. Since the reform and opening up, China’s agricultural development level has been greatly improved, but at the same time, it is also facing such problems as the shortage of land...Read more -
Development direction and future trend of pesticide preparation industry
In the made in China 2025 plan, intelligent manufacturing is the major trend and core content of the future development of manufacturing industry, and also the fundamental way to solve the problem of China’s manufacturing industry from a big country to a powerful country. In the 1970s and 1...Read more -
Amazon admits there was a miscarriage in the “pesticide storm”
This kind of attack is always nerve wracking, but the seller reported that in some cases, the products identified by Amazon as insecticides can’t compete with insecticides, which is ridiculous. For example, a seller received relevant notice for a second-hand book sold last year, which is no...Read more