Tag: technology
New spray technologies, disease trials set at Ohio State’s Pumpkin Field...
SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio -- There's a lot in store for pumpkin growers at this year's Pumpkin Field Day, to be held Sept. 5 from...
Income over dairy feed costs? There’s a free app for that
Using the mobile app DairyCents is as easy as entering a zip code, selecting a milk production level, and date and the app will calculate income over feed costs.
Drivers continue to text, experience road rage on way to work
Fifty-eight percent of workers who drive to work said they experience road rage at times while traveling to and from the office, similar to findings in 2006 when the study was last conducted.
Triumph! NASA lands rover on Mars
NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars recently to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
Aquaponics garden being developed at Penn State
Aquaponics is an integrated fish-culture and plant-propagation system that relies on a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants. Fish, such as tilapia — grown for human consumption — are cultured in tanks.
DNA: An arriving tool for beef cattle
Producers are using DNA to give consumers what they want in beef.
Blogging Farmers: Social media and farming
Will Flannigan examines the way farmers are using social media to get their message across.
Progress: Smartphone apps for weed control
Mobile app puts power of reporting invasive weed spread in hands of everyone.
Online enrollment at Penn State grows
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Increasing at more than double the national average, Penn State's online enrollments are the result of the strong partnership between...
Mobile app puts pest and plant disease information right in your...
IPMPro will streamline pest management decision-making and employee training and will make complying with state pesticide recordkeeping regulations easy.
