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🍇🏃♂️ Unveiling Shelf-life Parameters with C4L: Part 4 of 4 Introducing the final segment of our comprehensive series on table grapes. Today we examine the effects of C4L on two critical postharvest parameters: Berry Firmness and Stem Browning. While the C4L postharvest treatment alone showed marginal improvements in stem browning, the inclusion of the C4L program yielded significant enhancements in both metrics. 📈 Our findings indicate a notable 19% increase in berry firmness when utilizing the pre-harvest C4L program in conjunction with the C4L postharvest treatment. Additionally, there was a significant 11% reduction in the occurrence of bunches in the most severe stem browning category. 🏃♂️These results demonstrate the efficacy of the C4L program in improving overall postharvest quality, particularly in extending the shelf life of harvested bunches. #C4Ltechnology #Tablegrapetrials #Improvedshelflife #Postharvestquality #InnovationInAgriculture

The 2024-2025 Prairie Estates Genetics catalog is here! Request your copy today to explore our latest high-performance hybrids, expert forage solutions, and personalized support services. Don't miss out on the best strategies for optimizing your dairy farm's success in the upcoming seasons! 📧 Contact us now to request your catalog and start planning for a thriving 2024-2025! #ForageExcellence #DairyFarming #PrairieEstatesGenetics #RequestYourCatalog

Have you ever wondered: Why should pollen quality matter? Although everyone knows that pollen plays an important role in plant reproduction, they generally do not receive much attention. Breeders are more interested in the traits they want to develop, and seed producers are more concerned with the input factors they can more easily influence. Admittedly, determining pollen characteristics was not easy in the past, so knowledge about pollen quality was not collected, and therefore pollen quality was not considered as an important parameter. Those days are over. Measuring pollen quality has become a routine task that - including data analysis - takes two minutes. And you not only get information about pollen viability and pollen quantity, but also other information about the health and condition of the pollen. And when this information is collected and compared from different lines and genotypes, the accumulated knowledge provides a complete picture of reproductive characteristics that can also be linked to abiotic stressors. Ultimately, systematic screening of lines for pollen quality helps you to be more efficient: early selection of pollinator lines, determination of abiotic stress factors, optimization of female to male ratio or input for crop placement are just a few examples. Pollen quality matters! Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gap8xJSG! Contact us for more information at info@amphasys.com or visit our website https://lnkd.in/eEMt3iZf #pollenquality #pollination #pollenviability Amphasys - the #pollenqualityexperts

Research is uncovering new opportunities to optimize the brooding period for broilers.   Brian Fairchild, PhD, The University of Georgia, highlighted three key opportunities — aligning brooding fundamentals, rethinking lighting strategies and focusing on return on investment — in a presentation at the 2024 PEAK conference, sponsored by Midwest Poultry Foundation.   “To optimize performance in broilers and help them reach their full genetic potential, we must provide them with the ideal brooding environment,” he said. Read more at https://lnkd.in/eqW7G8_f #broilerperformance #poultryperformance #poultryproduction #broodingperiod

Focus on tracking proven sires, influential dams, and effective crosses to identify winning patterns. Make smarter breeding choices for consistent, long-term success. https://lnkd.in/eeJWSyrh

Using ProBreed Terminal Rams in a Ewe Lamb mating system! Early Weaning for Ewe Lambs: •Faster Growth: ProBreed lambs achieve weaning weight quickly, enhancing their growth potential. •Ample Recovery Time: Early weaning ensures ewe lambs have time to mature and strengthen for future breeding. •Healthier Ewes: Better early development results in more productive ewes over their lifetime. Enhanced Flock Performance: •Superior Genetics: ProBreed Rams have outstanding growth rates, leading to heavier lambs and more meat. •Robust Health: Bred for Australian climates, these rams produce hardy lambs with less health issues. •Expert Support: ProBreed offers continuous advice to help farmers meet lamb production objectives. #ProBreed #ProductionEfficiency #ProBreedTerminal #PrimeLambs

NÀSP Annex 4: Comparative Analysis. ConnectPNG, SEZ, New Electorate Creation and Crop/Livestock Suitability in one picture. A picture is worth a thousand words.

💬Amrit Kaur Nanda, Executive Manager of Plants for the Future, has talked about trends in EU public investment in plant breeding research and innovation and highlighted that "despite plant breeding having a huge potential to contribute solutions to a wide range of challenges in our agri-food systems, it is currently not strategically addressed anywhere in the EU R&I Framework Programme; instead, we are actually seeing a decrease in the funding allocation to plant breeding-related R&I." 🌱On behalf of Plant ETP, Amrit Nanda has called for a dedicated mechanism to ensure sufficient, long-term and EU-wide coordinated support for R&I in plant breeding in FP10! ℹ️ Learn more about Plants For the Future ETP: plantetp.eu #plantbreeding #HorizonEurope #plantscience EU Science, Research and Innovation

📢New publication alert📢 Four years of hard work on the River Irt investigating suitable release sites for the #FreshwaterPearlMussel has culminated in ~2500 juvenile mussels being released, increasing the population from 300 aging adult mussels and saving it from #extinction. Our Head of Science Louise Lavictoire and project officer Chris West from West Cumbria Rivers Trust have published their findings from this work, and subsequent monitoring using PIT tags, in this #OpenAccess paper https://lnkd.in/eghPSJRR. The success of this project isn’t just ours, we’ve received generous funding for this work from United Utilities and vital funding for the national breeding programme at our #MusselArk is provided by Environment Agency & Natural England. #Partnership #Collaboration #TeamWork Our successful bid last year to the Natural England #SpeciesRecoveryFund is enabling ongoing #CatchmentRestoration and #PopulationReinforcement to happen in the Rivers Irt and Ehen in 2024, further securing these declining populations. #ConservationTranslocation #PopulationReinfocement #RiverRestoration #BiodiversityCrisis

Research review: "Suppressive Effect of Black Soldier Fly Larvae Frass on Fusarium Wilt Disease in Tomato Plants" Key findings: "This study suggests that BSFL frass, depending on the larval rearing diet, has the potential to serve as a pasteurized or non-pasteurized soil amendment with prophylactic properties against FOL in tomato plants, opening new avenues of research for the valorization of BSFL frass." Want to learn about the best practices of Black Soldier Fly farming, get access to FREE BSF farming tools such as a BSF business case calculator, an insect farm management tool, learning center and knowledge base with both short training courses as well as longer webinar recordings, and more? All you need to do is to create a FREE account at the Manna Insect FARM Hub here to access these tools: https://lnkd.in/d3HaAECt Full text: https://lnkd.in/dw5MpbpY #agritech #insects #agriculture #food #insectfarming #insectos #insectes #farming #moscasoldadonegro #insecten #insectfarm #blacksoldierfly #biowaste #organicwaste #wastemanagement #sustainability #circulareconomy #circulaireeconomie #regenerativefarming #frass #fertilizer #soilhealth #soilremediation