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Sustainable Agriculture
Cassandra Smith posted on July, 21 2010 at 8:53 am
In the face of increasing population, climate change and scarcity of natural resources, the global food and beverage industry must continually tackle the most fundamental, challenge of all—ensuring food is produced and sourced in a sustainable way that also works for the triple bottom line. With support from leading food and agribusiness companies, including Syngenta, Bayer, Mars and Nestle, and numerous growers from California and other leading farming states, American Business Conferences is taking its’ ‘Sustainable Agriculture Partnerships Summit’ to San Francisco (August 10–11, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway), to help provide practical solutions for meeting this complex, long-term challenge.
With agricultural water needs predicted to rise by 140 percent by 2050, sustainability of water resources will be the main focus for the Summit. Major food industry players such as Nestle are investing in programs to help growers become better stewards of water at the Summit. Nestles’ Betsy Cohen, VP of Sustainability, will be discussing how they have initiated a global dialogue with leading experts and policymakers on water stress and created partnerships throughout the agricultural supply chain to drive change and reduce water consumption and waste. Innovative technology suppliers such as Lindsay Corporation will also participate in the Summit to help drive forward the use of irrigation technologies that will allow farmers to increase crop yields while using less water, energy, labor and chemicals.
Ag Concepts understands the importance of sustainable agriculture and makes every effort to create products that can help the plant and soil work to the best of their potential. Ag Concepts uses only the highest quality raw inputs and continuously tests their products to ensure they are consistently performing well in the field. Over the years of testing they have documented many benefits that their products provide to the crop and to the soil. AgZyme, a micronutrient spray and biological growth catalyst, has been proven to increase yield while at the same time improving the efficiency of the crop. Tests have shown yield increases with improved water use efficiency. A four year study done with Arise Research and Discovery on corn showed an average of 26.4% reduction in water loss and an average increase in yield of 11.75 bushels per acre with the use of AgZyme. When the grower can get those kinds of yield increases with 26.4% less water being wasted, everyone wins.
Another Ag Concepts product that has shown to improve water use efficiency is Pervaide. Pervaide is a non-ionic soil penetrant that has also shown to increase yield while reducing water waste. A four year study was also done with Pervaide at Arise Research and Discovery, on alfalfa. An average increase of 24% in water use efficiency with an average increase in yield of 2.5 tons per acre was seen. If you would like to learn more about AgZyme or Pervaide just go to the Products section of the website, there are many more tests you can review to see how our products can help you and your crop.