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eco-friendly aquaponics system

a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic animals supplies nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water.

using a water-based system

show you could grow a high-density amount of food in a small carbon footprint

thanks to its automatic recirculating system, aquaponics does not require much monitoring or measuring”

High rice flats

Cutting-edge agriculture

High rice flats: Overcrowded China solves space shortage issues by building 187-metre-high vertical farms.

• A network of huge 187-metre-high vertical farms would be used to grow vegetables and fruit

• The skyscrapers would be constructed on the outskirts of big cities

• China has seen much of its farmland disappear in recent years because of the rapid growth of its cities and industry

Not only will the towers provide food but also spectacular 360 degree viewing platforms and spaces to research on farming techniques

It's a difficult dilemma faced by many countries around the world - how to produce enough food for an ever-increasing population when land and space is rapidly running out.

Naflaa Aldosari

Precision planting

(global positioning satellites)

Precision planting, or planting seeds for crops via a GPS satellite system, is one farm technology that is spreading across the nation and slowly seeping into Northern New York. Precision planting systems can go so far as steering planters around the fields to place each seed in its intended spot. The advanced systems allow the computer to take over steering a giant tractor around the field, leaving the driver to monitor seed output and placement.

many precision planting machines can plant six rows of seeds at a time and the computer will tell the operator if a tube is plugged or if any irregularities arise. Being aware of the problems immediately not only saves the farm operation the time it takes to fix it, but money as well

Robotics: A new generation of agricultural equipment

robots can work all day without a break, they have one advantage over manual labour and potential for accurate information-gathering

robots that use vision systems, laser sensors, satellite positioning and instruments to measure things like humidity can build up a database of information about each plant. This can be used to detect the onset of disease. A “smart sprayer” can then delivers precise amounts of chemical to only those plants that require attention instead of spraying an entire field

How does this growing technique make us different?

  • 100% pesticide free.
  • growing an acre worth of crops equal just 400 square feet of hydroponic system.
  • plants use less than 1% of the water of even organic soil farms.
  • closed-loop system means that no fertilizer runs off either into our atmosphere or our rivers.
  • Growing in the same city that plants are sold in allows to cut over 95% of the emissions associated with transportation.
  • growing any kinds of plants at any time of year.
  • the deliver the same day that plants are harvested

References

The Met Office’s new supercomputer

it will be able to process 16,000 trillion calculations every second

it will harness its extraordinary processing power to use the wealth of environmental data available to provide ever more accurate weather forecasting

it is developing systems to predict the spread of pests and diseases like potato blight and leaf blotch.

http://therivardreport.com/localsprout-just-add-water/

http://www.localsprout.com/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372117/High-rice-flats-Overcrowded-China-solves-space-shortage-issues-building-187-metre-high-vertical-farms-grow-fruit-veg.html

http://arizonaexperience.org/innovate/energy-farming-sweet-sorghum-and-algae

Energy Farming

farming sorghum and algae is literally growing energy

http://arizonaexperience.org/innovate/energy-farming-sweet-sorghum-and-algae

City farmer commits to cutting edge agriculture

Seeds germinate and sprout in trays before placed in vertical columns within the shipping container.

http://www.kens5.com/videos/life/2015/03/26/-growing-a-different-san-antonio/25224719/

Sweet sorghum

  • a drought tolerant
  • salt-tolerant
  • generally tough crop
  • a biofuel potential that may eventually power homes, automobiles, factories, and airplanes

algae

  • potential to treat water.
  • eat farm waste nutrients such as nitrate, ammonia, and phosphate from contaminated water such as agriculture irrigation runoff.
  • eat carbon dioxide from flue gas emissions

IFM Laboratory The In Vitro Fermentation Model

The In Vitro Fermentation Model (IFM), a diagnostic tool that simulates rumen fermentation and evaluates the nutritive value of total mixed rations (TMR), will be featured in the Institute and will be one of the ways that Alltech helps to support the continued growth and transformation of the Chinese dairy industry.

Through the IFM diagnostics, Chinese dairy nutritionists and farmers will not only be able to get evaluations and recommendations for dairy rations to maximize feed efficiency and combat ever-rising feed costs, but also obtain estimates of the amount of energy lost as methane and methane emissions per animal. In the rapidly developing Chinese dairy industry, such new technology helps dairy productivity to continue to improve while providing insight into new and more precise ways to evaluate feedstuffs and reduce environmental impact.

Using IFM technology, feed samples are incubated within a standardized rumen fluid and a buffer system to mimic natural rumen fermentation in an oxygen-free environment. IFM then measures gas production, identifies TMR inefficiencies and provides additional information on the nutritive value of the feed. The Carbon Trust, an organization that measures and certifies the environmental footprint of organizations, supply chains and products, recently verified that IFM is an effective tool for estimating farm-specific enteric methane emission from specific feeds.

Hydroponic systems

There are three components to this hydroponic system:

grow plants without soil. Instead, the plants' roots bath in water infused with all the essential minerals and nutrients. The nutrient-laden water is then recirculated for re-use and adjusted to give the plants exactly what they need.

With the newest hydroponic technology, healthy and sustainable plants are produced in the same city they are sold in.

irrigation: pumps attached to reservoirs of the nutrient solution that carry it up then drips it down through the greens and back into the reservoir. The only water loss is what the plants actually take up and transpire

lighting: red and blue spectrum

climate control: moisture-retaining

Precision Agriculture

uses a pocket sensor to measure crop reflectance in a winter wheat field

unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor wheat fields for nutrient and water stress

Remote sensing cameras on the UAVs would interpret the data and show farmers how they can best use nitrogen and water to optimize yields

using UAVs to drag sticky traps across wheat fields so researchers can monitor populations of fusarium spores and determine if the field needs to be treated for the pathogen

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