Those who do the technology also think that the use of advanced IoT equipment in agriculture, the farmer will just sit down to eat gold bowl. But the answer is bitter.
Applying technology to agriculture is not so new in Vietnam, day after day we still see hundreds of thousands of high-tech applications in the cultivation of livestock to create clean products and high quality.
With the rapid development of IoT, a series of smart farming models have been introduced, developed and developed. And Mr. Tuan, which we will meet in this article, is also a typical example of an aspiring desk worker who becomes a digital farmer.
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“The name ‘Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch’ is not just the name of my farm—it’s also a statement about my faith, my philosophy, and my approach to farming. Building the Good Shepherd Poultry Institute is an expansion of my dream to preserve heritage poultry breeds and help rebuild an agricultural system that puts animals back in the center of farming.” —Frank Reese
Frank Reese is a fourth-generation Kansas farmer with more than 60 years of experience breeding and raising heritage poultry. An award-winning master breeder and American Poultry Association (APA) judge, Frank owns and operates one of the few successful heritage poultry farms in America, the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch, which has garnered Read More
Miyazu Farm is a small and diverse Certified Organic vegetable and cut flower farm. We are committed to growing nutritious, delicious, and highly unusual produce. The farm is owned equally by its four farmers: partners and best friends who share a common vision for a business model that sustains our community, our land, our selves, our soil, and our food system.
Now entering our third season on this land, we are cultivating approximately three acres of vegetables, cut flowers, and berries. The farm is sheltered by deep forest in all directions, and has been a farm in some form for at least the last three generations. As far as we Read More
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialised units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fibres, biofuel and other commodities. It includes ranches, feedlots, orchards, plantations and estates, smallholdings and hobby farms, and includes the farmhouse and agricultural buildings as well as the land. In modern times the term has been extended so as to include such industrial operations as wind farms and fish Read More
In Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, in northern Japan “Miracle Apples” are being grown. Miracle Apples are raised through a “natural cultivation” method that employs neither pesticides nor fertilizers, not even organic matter such as compost or manure. These apples do not turn brown from oxidation after being cut. When left untouched for some time, they start fermenting without decay.
Photo courtesy of Akinori Kimura
Japan is one of the largest pesticide users in the world. It is said that apples in particular cannot be produced without pesticides. In this article, we introduce Akinori Kimura who has Read More
When I sit down to write this, the temperature has dropped and the hot muggy days of high summer have already started their slow recession into the backs of our minds. I have to remind myself four times what day of the week it is. I think I can safely admit that I’ve failed my 2017 resolution of weekly blog posts. Somehow it’s been four months (really four?!) since the last one, and I can’t even really provide a good excuse. The specific quotidian excuses for not keeping up with this blog amount to an exciting-to-us-but-boring-to-the-world day-by-day account of our wacko 2017 summer, so I’ll spare you the gory details. The Read More
I am finding that the weather is not exactly trending one way or another this year. And since I now fancy myself a bit of a mixed vegetable farmer, given the barely discernable presence of vegetables other than potatoes under my supervision, it sort of matters.
The beauty of lettuces is that once your reasonably healthy soil reaches a certain temperature, and you put a reasonably good piece of seed potato therein, the weather doesn’t really matter. They just want to grow and will do their best for you. Lettuce farming is nice like that.
Please don’t get any funny ideas and start growing Read More