Ever wonder what an Agronomist's role entails at Country Visions Cooperative? Agronomist Conner Geurts shares what his role as an agronomist looks like.
Did you know that soil is the most diverse habitat on earth? It is teeming with life. One small handful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than the entire population of humans on Earth!
This video gives a short explanation of why farmers test their soil and the important information they can gain from these soil samples.
The Dot Power Platform is a mobile diesel-powered platform designed to work autonomously with a wide variety of implements commonly used in agriculture. Its U-shaped frame facilitates the direct loading of implements so that, once loaded, the implement “becomes one” with the mobile-powered platform.
FarmBeats, a new agriculture research project developed by Microsoft, uses solar-powered white space-based Internet connectivity to record soil temperature and moisture levels and track them with cloud-based computing models. FarmBeats enables data-driven farming in remote areas by using inexpensive monitoring equipment, including cameras, to help increase the food yield of farms.
When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's crops. It provides scientists with the tools they need to breed plants able to cope with a changing world.
This video explores the Global Seed Vault and its uses, especially with the threat of climate change for crops.
This video focuses on the functions and features of a John Deere air seeder. It was used to show field crop equipment advances.
Aboriginal farmers in northern Saskatchewan produce one of the world’s most nutritious types of rice. This video explores the traditional crop, wild rice, bringing socioeconomic progress to a small native community in Saskatchewan.
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What do the numbers mean on a fertilizer bag? This video explains what the numbers mean and how many pounds of each nutrient a bag contains.
This video is an interview with an agronomist exploring the role and responsibilities that come with it.