Perdue, Vilsack and leading agricultural groups gathered in a Maryland barn to talk about the farm-country issue that dare not speak its name.he meeting last June in a wood-beamed barn in Newburg, Md., an hour due south of Washington, had all the makings of a secret conclave. The guest list...
With involvement from World Wildlife Fund and The Yield Lab Institute, The Manure Challenge is exploring how technology can help us find an expedited pathway to making better use of manure.@f3techMD #agritech #manure @world_wildlife @theyieldlab #manurechallenge Source: Make Manure Great Again: New Tech Challenge Aims to Put Animal Waste to Work...
Home > OneNOAA Science SeminarsOneNOAA Science Seminars A joint effort by several NOAA seminar partners to help share science and climate seminars and information across NOAA and our constituents. To hear about upcoming OneNOAA Science seminars you can join our weekly e-mail of OneNOAA seminars (anyone can join the list) bySending an email...
Alexandria LaunchLabs® will be awarding a cash and membership prize to one incredible startup. Located at the Alexandria Center® for AgTech in the heart of Research Triangle, North Carolina’s dense agtech cluster, LaunchLabs offers early-stage companies a world-class home with state-of-the-art amenities and company-building support. Sectors of interest include crop enhancement...
Food companies and farmers must adapt and adopt to purpose-driven purchasers.A two-headed consumer strolls around today’s grocery stores, confusing producers and retailers. One day a consumer searches out food products that are local, organic and welfare-friendly. The next week, that very same consumer chooses food items that are cheap, affordable...
In 2013, Barstow’s began using an anaerobic digester, which processes manure and food waste into electricity and creates a nutrient-rich fertilizer for the farm.@f3techMD #methane #soil #agritech #digester #fertilizerSource: Raising green beef: How cattle, dairy farmers are becoming environmentally friendly...
Kevin McClarren, of Choptank Oyster Company, is interviewed by Maryland Public Television's "Maryland Farm & Harvest" for an episode, which featured Eastern Shore farms in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and Somerset counties. The episode will air at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3. It will be rebroadcast at 11:30 p.m....
The Wellfleet Shellfish Advisory Board and the shellfishing community are seeking ideas for alternative materials and innovative technology to reduce plastics in aquaculture. We are looking to either replace or find less impactful plastic materials in these common aquaculture products:Zip ties Grow bags Plastic trays Tags Clam netting Market...
The stormwater management technology is designed to address pollution and flooding. Through a partnership between state and private entities, it's being rolled out in four sites in Maryland. Maryland is piloting new technology that’s designed to help curb pollution and flooding: Its transportation and environment departments are contributing $4 million to...
Across the American Midwest and Plains, small groups of farmers are looking at their most important resource – the soil – and contemplating big change. Their grandfathers and great grandfathers planted trees for windbreaks and planted along the contours of the slopes rather than up and down them to reduce soil erosion....
