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Date:2014/04/11
A new study on soybean planting depth may have producers reconsidering shallow planting dates.
Posted on April 9, 2014 by Mike Staton, Michigan State University Extension
Achieving the correct planting depth is more critical for soybean pr...
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Date:2014/04/04
No.
Active ingredient
1
Abamectin
2
Imidacloprid
3
Pymetrozine
4
Cyflumetofen
5
Acetamiprid
6
Dinotefuran
7
Hexaflumuron
8
Beta-cypermethrin
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Date:2014/04/04
Demonstration area
Town
2014
2015~2018
Planned number
Jiangmen
Duhu Taishan, Cangcheng Kaiping, Niujiang Enping
Not released
15
Huizh...
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Date:2014/04/04
Item
Measure
Subsidy
25% subsidy for formula fertilizer, controlled-release fertilizer
35% subsidy for biopesticide, high-efficient and low-toxic pesticide
70% subsidy for high-efficient spra...
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Date:2014/04/11
Guizhou's bucolic scenery offers a pleasant escape for harried city dwellers and an economic lifeline for local communities, Zeng Jun reports.
Like most women from the mountainous Nahui village who work the farmland in Southwest China's Guizh...
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Date:2014/04/11
A farmer works in the wheat fields during the farming season at Chaizhuang Village of Neihuang County, central China'a Henan province, April 9, 2014. Henan is a major wheat growing province of China, with the wheat planting farmland of more than 5.33...
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Date:2014/04/12
After a long winter, spring work has yet to begin in West Central Michigan.
Posted on April 10, 2014 by Fred Springborn, Michigan State University Extension
Weather
Spring has been slow to arrive in 2014 after a winter season that came ear...
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Date:2014/04/12
This past winter was more like winters experienced in the 1960s. There is no doubt the harsh conditions affected fruit crops, but how might it affect vegetable production?
Posted on April 10, 2014 by Ron Goldy, Michigan State University Extensio...
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Date:2014/04/12
Employers who look to employee handbooks as policy manuals meant to keep them out of trouble are missing other opportunities.
Posted on April 10, 2014 by Stan Moore, Michigan State University Extension
Producers often express an interest i...
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Date:2014/04/13
Tobacco mosaic virus is highly transmittable through greenhouses and raises a lot of questions among growers. MSU Extension answers these questions here.
Posted on April 11, 2014 by Heidi Wollaeger, Michigan State University Extension
Tobacc...
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Date:2014/04/13
This is the time of year to begin collecting scion wood if you are thinking you may need to perform some grafting this late winter or early spring.
Posted on April 11, 2014 by Ron Perry, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Horticu...
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Date:2014/04/13
With the temperatures we experienced during winter, what was the fate of plant pathogens? Follow these integrated pest management (IPM) tactics to limit plant diseases.
Posted on April 11, 2014 by Lina Rodriguez Salamanca, Michigan State Univers...
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Date:2014/04/13
While spring has been late in arriving, growers in Southwest Michigan are thankful for the return of a week of daytime high temperatures above the freezing mark.
Posted on April 11, 2014 by Bruce MacKellar, Michigan State University Extension
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Date:2014/04/14
Fishermen catch fish on boats on the Hanjiang River in Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province, April 12, 2014. (Xinhua/Yao Jun)
Fishermen catch fish on boats on the Hanjiang River in Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province, April 12, 20...
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Date:2014/04/14
Farmers pick tea leaves in the West Lake Longjing Tea protective zone in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, April 10, 2014. With rising temperature in Hangzhou, the output of Longjing Tea is increasing quickly after the Qingming Fes...
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Date:2014/04/14
BEIJING - Chinese agriculture's dependence on foreign trade will keep declining, with total import and export growth for agricultural products predicted to be lower than 5 percent in 2014, a think tank report said Friday.
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Date:2014/04/14
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Xinhua) -- As China pushes for new urbanization reform, local governments will phase out land requisition, a Chinese expert told a seminar of the ongoing International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings on Friday.
C...
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Date:2014/04/15
China's move this month to allow Brazilian corn imports not only gives the world's second largest economy an alternative source to US-produced grain, it also affords international growers the opportunity to increase dialogue with Chinese agriculture ...
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Date:2014/04/15
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China will intensify its efforts to promote crop insurance, with insured farm produce to cover 60 percent of the country's cultivated land by 2020, the country's top insurance regulator said on Monday.
The country...
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Date:2014/04/14
China-Cuba Moringa Science & Technology Cooperation Center was launched in Yunnan Tropical Crop Research Institute on April 11, 2014. Chinese Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, Cuban Ambassador Mr. Alberto Jesus Blanco Silva, Yunnan Deputy Part...