Forestry Articles
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Talking Water with George Millear
George Millear is the owner of Tiltagoona Station, located 60km south-east of Tilpa in western New South Wales. His 66,000-acre property comprises mostly of timbered rangeland grazing country. The Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement shows that 2018 was the third-warmest year on record for Australia, with New South Wales being in its sixth-driest year. Alongside many other ...
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Take Care of Business, and More With Custom Metrics
“If You are not Keeping Score, you are just practicing” Carbon-And-More announces a new release featuring custom metrics. Now organizations subscribing to the SMB or Enterprise editions can set and share additional metrics as they see fit. Custom metrics are completely configurable, hence an organization can now augment the out-of-the-box metrics with their own ideas or targets. ...
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Better nitrogen application in winter wheat with drones
There’s no doubt that spring is one of the busiest times of the year for farmers and agronomists. Activities carried out during spring make foundation for the whole season and have crucial impact on quality and quantity of yields. Nitrogen application is one of the key actions that growers take to ensure stable crop development. When winter crops enter the stroke phase, the absorption of ...
By Solvi AB
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Hand Digging VS Tree Spade: which one gives the best results in terms of quality and time?
We were in Tuscany, with our guest and friend Mr. Leonida Cocchi, at one of his nurseries; we thank him for helping us dealing with this matter. All around the world tree spades are seen as tools to be used just for huge clods, especially by not experts. That’s because tree spades costs, while laborers has a short-term lesser cost. So, smaller clods it is thought to be wiser to produce them ...
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Leaf area - How & why measuring leaf area is vital to plant research
It is easy to measure leaves, and they are also the parts of a plant most responsive to their environment. The combination of these two factors makes leaf area measurement extremely useful to scientists and growers. Besides, leaves are one of the main plant organs and are responsible for the productivity of a plant, and on a larger scale, of an ecosystem or a farm. Therefore, an understanding of ...
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Forest & plant canopy analysis - Tools & methods
The range of applications of canopy cover analysis is truly astounding. Canopy analysis derives its usefulness from the vitality of the canopy. Many methods to measure canopy cover have been developed in the last 80 years to meet various objectives. Not surprisingly, there have been several comparisons of the tools in different parts of the world. A general knowledge of canopy cover and the ...
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Forest & Plant Canopy Analysis - Tools & Methods
Canopy Analysis for Crop, Forest & Plant Research The range of applications of canopy cover analysis is truly astounding. Canopy analysis derives its usefulness from the vitality of the canopy. Many methods to measure canopy cover have been developed in the last 80 years to meet various objectives. Not surprisingly, there have been several comparisons of the tools in different parts of the ...
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How to Analyze Photosynthesis in Plants: Methods and Tools
Photosynthesis: Why is it important? Life as we know it would be impossible without photosynthesis. Outside of providing the essential elements that support life on earth, photosynthesis is of special importance to the food and agriculture industry, as well as for ecologists studying climate change. In addition, there are many commercial enterprises which depend heavily on photosynthesis. As a ...
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How to analyze photosynthesis in plants: Methods and tools
Life as we know it would be impossible without photosynthesis. Outside of providing the essential elements that support life on earth, photosynthesis is of special importance to the food and agriculture industry, as well as for ecologists studying climate change. In addition, there are many commercial enterprises which depend heavily on photosynthesis. As a result, there are a plethora of methods ...
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Tree, Crop & Plant Stress – A Primer on Abiotic and Biotic Stressors
The natural conditions in which plants and trees grow are neither uniform nor controlled. Many changes or fluctuations, even if they are temporary, can have a negative impact on and stress plants. The factors which can lead to stress can be one of two types: abiotic or biotic. Stress can have serious repercussions on various phases of a plant’s growth and, ultimately, crop productivity. ...
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Tree, crop & plant stress – A primer on abiotic and biotic stressors
The natural conditions in which plants and trees grow are neither uniform nor controlled. Many changes or fluctuations, even if they are temporary, can have a negative impact on and stress plants. The factors which can lead to stress can be one of two types: abiotic or biotic. Stress can have serious repercussions on various phases of a plant’s growth and, ultimately, crop productivity. ...
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Indigo’s partnership with Anheuser-Busch: a major step towards beneficial agriculture
The agriculture industry is currently one of the biggest contributors to human caused greenhouse gas emissions, but I believe that it is also one of the most hopeful solutions for slowing and reversing climate change. Agricultural crops have the potential to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil, and the sheer size of the ag industry makes this approach one of the only ...
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Water feature in Tilburg Project - Case Study
Prise D’eau is a beautiful golf resort located just outside the town of Tilburg. The course has 27 holes and – surprise surprise – lots of grass. To supply all that grass with water, it was decided to create a water feature of 25,000 m2 as part of a new 9-hole course. This would prevent depletion of the groundwater and the desiccation of the upper soil layer. It turned out to be ...
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Feeding Bales and Maize with One Machine Provides an Efficiency Breakthrough for Dairy Farm
Marike Ostebuhr, a dairy farmer from Strackholt, Germany, tells us about how she changed the way she fed her cattle, making it more time efficient and reducing feed waste... Marike Ostebuhr, a Dairy farmer, runs a small operation in Strackholt, Germany with around 120 livestock and 50 milking cows. The name "Strackholt" means "elongated forest". No wonder since it is well known for ...
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Rovero supplies year-round and worldwide
Open just the ridge, open everything, open the side walls - it's all possible with Rovero's plastic greenhouses. Rovero makes plastic greenhouses that are bought and built all over the world, from 9.60 metres span to as much as 16.80 metres. You have to be flexible'. The plastic greenhouses developed, supplied and built by Rovero of Raamsdonksveer can be found all over the world. The company is ...
By Rovero
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Protection of a slope along a road in a semi-arid region - Case Study
The challenge The road enlargement works in close proximity to residential areas have created particularly steep slopes. The local soil is composed of loess, materials with well-known characteristics in contact with water. A typical rainfall curve in those very dry areas, where the heavy rains, even rare, have resulted in very serious soil erosion. Slope with a steep inclination ...
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New Technology of Cassava Flour Equipment and Cassava Flour Production Process
Tapioca flour is also called cassava powder, which is in the form of powder. Unlike tapioca starch, it is the processing of all cassava roots, retaining the nutrient content of cassava, and the nutrition is more comprehensive than tapioca starch. Tapioca flour is mainly consumed. The cassava flour equipment developed by GOODWAY Tapioca Industry is widely used in the international market. Crafting ...
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Pet cremation and other choices
Choosing a Pet Crematorium Choosing somewhere local with good credentials is the best place to start. Check out facebook groups and reviews to see how other feel about their services. Most will be kind and empathetic to you – in most cases Pet Crematoriums are ran by pet lovers themselves. The ashes are returned to you in an urn (usually an additional cost), but can also be put in a seed ...
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Happy TuBishvat from Tal-Ya
Happy TuBishvar for all the trees in Israel and in the world. Tu-Bishvat is the Jewish holiday where we are celebrating nature growth and thanksgiving. With Tal-Ya platform, the forest’s young trees, which are left to survive in the arid climatic conditions, have a substantial better chance to survive due to the surrounding support the platform provides to the tree – mitigation of ...
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Large Tree Removal - Case Study
The Marshall Tree Saw is capable of cutting a wide variety of tree sizes to meet all of your tree cutting needs. The Marshall Tree Saw is your go-to device to remove trees of any shape and size. Even larger trees, like this large Missouri Cedar, is no match for the Marshall Tree Saw. Both of our models can take down a 48” tree, however the model 1200 would require a few more cuts than the ...
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