Hydrogen Peroxide on the Shrimp Farm
Canister of Hydrogen Peroxide on a shrimp farm in Ecuador. For farms that do not have aerators, often those in Latin America, and are stocking at semi-extensive levels, we have seen widespread use of...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence on the Shrimp Farm: Osmobot
We have been hard at work on bringing Osmobot, a water quality sensor, and monitoring system built for fish and shrimp ponds, to market. In this post, we’d like to share some of our latest advances...
View ArticleWhy Shrimp Farmers Can’t Get Crop Insurance
We have been talking with a lot of farmers and aquaculture insurance companies about why shrimp farmers cannot get crop insurance and what the impact of it is on their business. In this post we...
View ArticleWhy It’s Really Hard & Expensive For Shrimp Farms to Get Loans
The farmed shrimp industry is massive and growing quickly. Such growth attracts affordable capital as they see the opportunity to return nice profits through extending loans. This drives down the...
View ArticleShrimp Price Volatility – The Farmer Bears All the Risk
Another hard part about being a shrimp farmer compared to the challenges faced by other types of advanced farmers around the world, shrimp farmers bear the brunt (and also gets a larger reward) of the...
View ArticleExtreme Biosecurity in the Shrimp Farms, Are They the Future?
Right now, shrimp farmers in India are facing a “mystery” disease. From EMS in Thailand in 2012 to Whitespot in Ecuador in 2001, regional epidemics have shocked the shrimp world. As the popularity of...
View ArticleShrimp vs. Prawns. What’s the Difference?
Silly article this week, but we do sometimes get the question. We chat with farmers all around the world. When we talk with a farmer in the Americas they (generally) tell us they are raising shrimp,...
View ArticleWhen Dissolved Oxygen Drops, When do Farmers Take Action in Latin American...
When we first began Osmo Systems, we spent a lot of time in Asia with farmers there learning about their farming methods and some of the issues they had. But as time went on, we began spending...
View ArticleWhy Are Shrimp Ponds Different Colors and What this Means for Your Pond
If you’ve ever flown over a shrimp farm or even looked at satellite pictures of one, you see a range of colors from bright green to dark brown. And if you look at the same set of ponds the next day,...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence + Shrimp Farming – Osmobot Update
We are getting ready to go to the field with our camera-based sensors that use artificial intelligence to measure dissolved oxygen and other parameters continuously in fish and shrimp ponds. Here’s...
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