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Agriculture, Volume 15, Issue 18

2025 September-2 - 86 articles

Cover Story: Can simplified implementation of precision feeding enhance productivity and reduce pollutant emissions? This study evaluated a simplified precision feeding strategy on pig fattening farms to assess its effects on economic performance and pollutant emissions: two commercial feeds, a nutrient-rich pre-grower and a nutrient-poor finisher, were blended weekly based on the lysine needs of two groups of pigs, defined by initial body weight. The results show that simplified precision can provide economic benefits without compromising performance, but blend feeding formulation should also address potential NH3 and GHG emissions during slurry storage. The integration of artificial intelligence-driven tools for real-time diet adjustments would be of great interest to enhance sustainability and efficiency. View this paper
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Articles (86)

  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
15 Pages

Design and Experiment of Air–Fertilizer Separator for Pneumatic Deep Fertilization in Paddy Fields

  • Mingjin Xin,
  • Wenrui Ding,
  • Duo Chen,
  • Man Zhang,
  • Yujue Ao,
  • Bowen Chi,
  • Zhiwen Jiang,
  • Yuqiu Song and
  • Yunlong Guo

22 September 2025

Supplemental fertilizer application is critical for improving rice yield. Pneumatic deep fertilization effectively improves fertilizer utilization, but high-speed airflow may disturb the soil and affect the location of the fertilizer particles. An ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
710 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2025

Oryza sativa L. is the largest food crop in the world. The harmful filamentous green algae Spirogyra in paddy fields poses a serious threat to O. sativa yield. Therefore, biological control for Spirogyra is important for sustainable agricultural deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
25 Pages

Super-Resolution Point Cloud Completion for Large-Scale Missing Data in Cotton Leaves

  • Hui Geng,
  • Zhiben Yin,
  • Mingdeng Shi,
  • Junzhang Pan and
  • Chunjing Si

22 September 2025

Point cloud completion for cotton leaves is critical for accurately reconstructing complete shapes from sparse and significantly incomplete data. Traditional methods typically assume small missing ratios (≤25%), which limits their effectiveness fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
955 Views
27 Pages

Performance of Georgian Grapevine Varieties in a Vineyard Infected by Flavescence Dorée Phytoplasma in Piedmont, Northwestern Italy

  • Letizia Portaccio,
  • Maria Alessandra Paissoni,
  • Simone Giacosa,
  • Alessandro Passera,
  • Camilla Barbieri,
  • David Maghradze,
  • Luca Rolle,
  • Vincenzo Gerbi,
  • Osvaldo Failla and
  • Fabio Quaglino
  • + 1 author

21 September 2025

In Europe, Flavescence dorée (FD), the only epidemic disease within the phytoplasma-associated grapevine yellows complex (GY), reduces productivity and has a negative impact on berry composition and wine quality. Recent studies have shown that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
829 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2025

Due to the complexity of impurity removal from the residual film, there is currently no better impurity removal equipment. To improve the screening performance of the residual film mixture, the vibrating screen was designed. In this paper, the key fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
753 Views
18 Pages

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Wheat Germplasm for Grain Nutritional Quality Using Haplotypes and KASP Markers

  • Qunxiang Yan,
  • Zhankui Zeng,
  • Chunping Wang,
  • Jiachuang Li,
  • Junqiao Song,
  • Qiong Li,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Chang Liu and
  • Xueyan Jing

21 September 2025

Wheat germplasm resources are an important material foundation for genetic improvement. In this study, 170 wheat germplasm resources were used from China, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Europe (France, Finland, and Swe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
797 Views
29 Pages

A Novel Framework for Predicting Daily Reference Evapotranspiration Using Interpretable Machine Learning Techniques

  • Elsayed Ahmed Elsadek,
  • Mosaad Ali Hussein Ali,
  • Clinton Williams,
  • Kelly R. Thorp and
  • Diaa Eldin M. Elshikha

20 September 2025

Accurate estimation of daily reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is crucial for sustainable water resource management and irrigation scheduling, especially in water-scarce regions like Arizona. The standardized Penman–Monteith (PM) method is cos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
882 Views
18 Pages

Harvest Date Monitoring in Cereal Fields at Large Scale Using Dense Stacks of Sentinel-2 Imagery Validated by Real Time Kinematic Positioning Data

  • Fernando Sedano,
  • Daniele Borio,
  • Martin Claverie,
  • Guido Lemoine,
  • Philippe Loudjani,
  • David Alfonso Nafría,
  • Vanessa Paredes-Gómez,
  • Francisco Javier Rojo-Revilla,
  • Ferdinando Urbano and
  • Marijn Van der Velde

20 September 2025

This study presents an operational and robust method for detecting and dating cereal harvest events using temporal stacks of Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery and crop and fields border information from ancillary records. The proposed approach is exempt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
772 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2025

Soil organic matter (SOM) plays a critical role in maintaining soil fertility, sustaining ecosystem stability, and mitigating climate change impacts, making its conservation essential for agricultural sustainability. However, systematic county-level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
875 Views
23 Pages

RFA-YOLOv8: A Robust Tea Bud Detection Model with Adaptive Illumination Enhancement for Complex Orchard Environments

  • Qiuyue Yang,
  • Jinan Gu,
  • Tao Xiong,
  • Qihang Wang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Yidan Xi and
  • Zhongkai Shen

19 September 2025

Accurate detection of tea shoots in natural environments is crucial for facilitating intelligent tea picking, field management, and automated harvesting. However, the detection performance of existing methods in complex scenes remains limited due to...

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