How to ensile fibrous fodder
Silage is by far the most widespread method of storing energy fodder, i.e. all cereals, with both summer and winter cycle, harvested at the waxing stage Ensiling is a technique that can also…
The dichotomy between sustainability and productivity
The announced forthcoming reduced availability of some of the main agricultural commodities, also known as soft commodities, is generating tense situations on the markets. This is because soft commodities include those agricultural products…
Carbon market and agriculture
The debate on the EU agricultural policy in recent months has involved greenhouse gases (the infamous GHG, i.e. Green House Gas) and the contribution in terms of Carbon Sink (carbon storage) that agriculture…
Augmented reality
What we perceive of the world is revealed to us through interference. Let me explain. Light hits a leaf and we perceive it in its shape, color and also its morphology. If the…
An electric future
The use of the electric energy to drive devices assembled on agricultural machines provides some interesting opportunities for manufacturers. The most frequent applications concern systems whose reactivity must be very fast, in the…
