Agrologist Rob Saik and Maverick Ag's Taylor Phillips say AI's present value on Canadian farms is in gathering information, playing devil's advocate and clearing administration, one producer cut chemical costs by nearly $1 million this year, even though an FCC/Deloitte report found only 1.8% of ag
AgrotechAgriScience Program funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership will adapt the Toronto company's computer-vision system, built for apple growers, to estimate crop load, spot disease early and forecast yield in grape vineyards.
AgribusinessAnnounced by trade minister Maninder Sidhu, the agreement routes Canpotex potash to the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation through the Canadian Commercial Corporation; twelve such contracts since 2014 have delivered more than 3.5 million tonnes, and Canada's fertiliser exports rose 13.2
A month-long drive across ten char unions in three upazilas, funded by the district council and run with the Faridpur Environment Development Forum, plants palmyra palms as natural lightning arresters.
Vantara in Jamnagar, Gujarat, has promised full cooperation with any lawful request, including DNA testing, after reports that two lemurs stolen from Gazipur Safari Park ended up there.
A capped langur hit while crossing the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sreemangal died despite efforts by a CNG driver and wildlife workers to save it.
The administration in Dinajpur's Khansama upazila seized about 1,600 sacks of illegally stocked chemical fertiliser, fined two dealers a total of Tk 90,000 and ordered a case against a third trader.
Two InnerPlant scientists argue that drones, cameras and AI all detect fungal disease in soybeans only after symptoms appear, when the spray window has passed, and make the case for plants engineered to signal infection about ten days earlier.
EnvironmentThe new state budget gives the farmland preservation programme almost half as much in a single year as it has spent in two decades, but Commissioner Steve Troxler says the state is still not protecting land as fast as development takes it.
CropsThe federal order of 21 August takes 760,000 acre-feet a year from Arizona through 2028, but senior water rights spare the Yuma growers who supply about 90 per cent of North America's winter leafy greens, unless another poor snowpack brings deeper cuts.
Kansas State doctoral student Kelechi Igwe combines drone imagery, air temperature and soil moisture to estimate stomatal conductance across whole fields; his machine-learning model, about 50% accurate, flagged stressed patches that still looked green.
EnvironmentThe Weather Network's fall forecast says Canada will be spared the worst of an El Nino expected to rank among the strongest on record: fewer October and November storms, a late start to winter, above-normal Prairie temperatures and near- to below-normal precipitation for most growing areas.
Visiting the government fish seed farm at Atpukur Par in Tangail Sadar, Sultan Salauddin Tuku said better management and maintenance of existing infrastructure can lift fish seed output while saving power.
Sirajnagar tea garden in Moulvibazar started a Tk 12 lakh trial in 2024; the Thai Red, Jumbo Red and White Pink varieties fruited in the second year, are grown without chemical pesticides, and the estate now plans to export.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Md Abdul Latif hoisted the flags, released balloons and doves and led the procession on Friday, 11 September; students dressed as farmers, fishers and veterinarians presented Bangladesh's farming culture, and a discussion recalled Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq.
IFPRI modelling finds that a very strong El Niño arriving alongside war-driven fuel and fertiliser price rises could push nearly 500,000 more Malawians into poverty and leave about 4.6 million more undernourished in 2027.
A mobile court jailed a man for a year after the coast guard and forest department seized 350 kg of deer meat, three skins and a head from a boat in Patharghata, Barguna.
Residents say several hundred trees were cut on the hills of Sabajpur tea garden over two months and hauled out by elephant; the estate could show no approval from the Tea Board or the forest department, and 130 stumps were counted.
Between 100 and 150 maunds a day change hands at the Boro Station landing centre, yet a one-kilogram fish costs over Tk 3,000; a researcher blames silted chars in the Meghna estuary, pollution and current nets for the fish's retreat from fresh water.
The chair of NFU Scotland's pigs committee, who shut units of 650 and 900 sows three years ago, will empty his final unit by February 2027 after losing £100,000 a month; he is keeping three staff to finish bought-in weaners and urges independent producers to stand behind their marketing co-operative
