The Government of Peru has made it clear that it is not in favour of giving subsidies for cotton farming, and instead it is willing to promote growing of other crops to remain competitive in the market. The Government cannot persist ...
Tags: Peruvian Govt, Cotton Farming, Subsidies
Prepping propane equipment after a long winter will be crucial this spring before planting begins. More than 856,000 farms in the U.S. are using propane for running engines, heating buildings, running pumps and to dry and process crops. The ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Propane-Fueled Equipment
Centrifugal pump is an essential device in your commercial establishment. This device moves any type of liquid, like water, through an acceleration mechanism. It moves the water in a radial direction outward to an adjacent volute casing. It ...
High Density Polyethylene Pipes or HDPE pipes are widely used pipes for irrigation, residential and industrial applications. HDPE is made from petroleum and possess very high strength to density ratio. High density polyethylene piping has a ...
Tags: Pipes, Hdpe Pipes, High Density Polyethylene Pipes, PVC pipes
As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program, the 2014 Fix a Leak Week campaign encourages Americans to help put a stop to the more than 1 trillion gallons of water wasted from household leaks each year. The ...
Tags: Certification, CQC, CCC
A hefty snowpack in most parts of Colorado heading into spring is good news for state hay growers, says Tess Norvell, reporter with USDA-Colorado Department of Agriculture Market News in Greeley. “We’ll get river run-off and ...
Tags: enough irrigation water, mountain snowpack, average precipitation
How people care for urban, suburban and rural lawns – the nation's second biggest crop behind corn – is less consistent than believed, according to scientists with the U.S. Forest Service, Clark University, the Cary Institute of ...
Levi Strauss & Co. announced its first annual grant in support of causes important to the company founder. Company celebrates 185th birthday of blue jean inventor by continuing his philanthropic legacy. One of the earliest corporate ...
Henkel recently launched Loctite Safe Coat an anti-corrosion coating for the agricultural Sector in India. Henkel said that it launched Loctite Safe Coat to address the problem of corrosion of the rotors of submersible pumps used for water ...
What’s keeping large farmers up at night? Labor shortages, for one, says David Hollinrake, vice president of agricultural commercial operations marketing for Bayer Crop Science. Hollinrake told about a group of large farmers he ...
Tags: Agriculture, herbicide mode, shortages of irrigation water
India’s government wants to replace 26 million groundwater pumps for irrigation with more efficient pumps that run on solar power, in an effort to relieve farmers of high costs of diesel fuel. Diesel generators are commonly used when ...
Tags: groundwater pumps, solar power, Diesel generators, irrigation
In 2012-13 we evaluated 24 cultivars of bicolor and white synergistic cultivars of sweet corn in 3 locations across Pennsylvania. This article presents our methods and results. To provide growers with information for successful, region ...
Tags: Sweet Corn
It is indeed becoming curiouser and curiouser (to quote Alice in Wonderland) that this discussion should focus so one-sidedly on our lowly alfalfa crop. Even the National Geographic article implies that the quantity of 'water' exported with ...
Tags: Fresh lettuce, spinach, onions, broccoli and cauliflower
Valves are commonly used in the industry to stop or open the flow of gas, liquid or fuel. With the addition of the solenoid, valves can be operated by an electrical signal, which can immediately open or close the flow of water or air. A ...
The Fleurette Group announces a further financial commitment of $1.5 million for 2014 to Kitoko Food, bringing the total investment made by Fleurette in the project to $14 million since it was established in June 2012. Kitoko Food is an ...