Soil Sterilizer Articles & Analysis
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The species has a low tolerance for warmer temperatures, demonstrated by the Northern Region having larger populations and diversity of the beetle. Proper soil conditions with respect to temperature, texture and moisture are critical for the American burying beetle; it requires moist, sandy loam soils with organic matter. The soils must be ...
Sandy Booth, managing director of the New Forest Fruit Company, has been using coir for more than 10 years at Newhouse Farm, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and is confident that it fits in with his responsible farming policy. “Soil sterilisation was becoming more and more difficult, so we moved from soil to peat, and then to coir,” he says. ...
Concern about pesticide losses from maintained turfgrass areas led us to examine the fate of the triazine herbicide simazine in turfgrass systems and, specifically, interactions between simazine binding to soil organic matter and biodegradation. Soil samples were removed from turfgrass systems of different ages, placed in microcosms, conditioned as ...
Additional experiments were conducted in the laboratory to better quantify microorganism transport and survival in the field soil. Batch survival experiments revealed much more rapid die-off rates for the bacterial indicator microorganisms in native than in sterilized soil, suggesting that biotic factors controlled survival. Saturated column ...
The incubation study was carried out at 30 °C and 60% of maximum water holding capacity of both the soils. Degradation of novaluron in both the soils followed first order reaction kinetics at all application rates under non-sterile and sterile conditions. The half-lives of novaluron in non-sterilized ...
(Box 3) 1 Pesticides include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, haulm killing, soil desinfection (only non-fumigantia), growth regulators, molluscicides, disinfectants, and auxiliary substances.2 The agriculture sectors included in the survey in the Netherlands include: arable crops, vegetables in the open, top-fruit, tree nursery crops, flower bulbs and tubers, vegetables ...