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  Clock House Farm: optimising growing conditions and irrigation efficiency in high volume soft fruit production - Case Study

  Clock House farm nestles in the rolling hills of Kent a few miles south of Maidstone in the UK. The expansive 250 acre farm grows a variety of fruit, including strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. ...

  Jan. 1, 2014
  

  By Delta-T Devices Ltd.

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  Using coir as a growing susbstrate - sustainably and ethically

  Manufactured from the inner husk of coconuts, coir is, but its very nature, produced in distant, and often developing, countries. This means that there is also an ethical slant to consider, as well as the question of shipping costs and carbon use. As retailers apply more pressure on their suppliers to focus on sustainability and ethics, these points are becoming increasingly important. Growers ...

  Aug. 12, 2013
  

  By Botanicoir Ltd

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  Can bats reduce nut farmers’ pesticide use?

  Ecologist Katherine Ingram is on a quest to quantify the economic value of insect-eating bats in walnut groves. For the past three years, Katherine Ingram has had a most unusual summer job: catching bats and studying their droppings to see what they eat. A doctoral student in ecology at the University of California, Davis, Ingram is exploring the role bats can play as winged ...

  Sep. 21, 2015
  

  By Ensia

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  Coir - The Ideal Growing Medium for Strawberries

  In June 2015, newspapers around Britain were buzzing about an offer from Marks and Spencer which sought to revolutionize gardening and retail shopping. For the first time in history, UK shoppers were given the opportunity to ...

  Aug. 26, 2015
  

  By CoirGreen

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  California firm clears orchards for development, re-growth

  Although it is hard to tell it at first glance, many of the rural parts of north central California — those areas traditionally covered with full, lush orchards — are disappearing. A combination of agricultural economics and good old-fashioned real estate development are teaming up to turn land that was once invaluable for the crops it could yield, into land that is perhaps more valuable just as ...

  Dec. 19, 2008