Tree Health Articles
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How cooling irrigation systems benefit orchards
Typical Challenges in Orchards Managing an orchard comes with several challenges. Pest and disease control is a constant battle to protect trees and ensure high-quality fruit. Weather fluctuations, including extreme temperatures and storms, can harm tree health and productivity. Adequate water management, by balancing irrigation and drainage, is crucial for optimal growth. Nutrient management ...
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Magnetic particle treatment for irrigation water greener, better, cheaper, faster
The wells of central California are the main water source to sustain agriculture in the region, but the brackish water contains high concentrations of total dissolved solids (TDS) in general, and geologically occurring recalcitrant elements - like boron - in particular. Boron is hard to remove using membrane technology such as Reverse Osmosis, and Ion Exchange is quite burdensome in cost, ...
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Aviro M120 Drone: Encouraging palm oil plantation surveillance
Palm oil is an essential ingredient in many products such as soap, cosmetics, and food. No wonder palm oil has high selling power. Palm oil can grow well in the tropics, so many palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia. The condition of the plantation, which is located in forestry with thousands of hectares and there are gaps around the plantations, allows unwanted activities to occur, such ...
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Biochar for tree health, with over 40 years of experience with timber we know our trees!
Our family have been working local Welsh Woodlands for over 40 years. It all began in 1979, falling Dutch Elm diseased trees supplying local sawmills for a price of £7 per tonne delivered. From then, we built a sawmill and began to cut and provide timber products, with the installation of our first Biomass fuelled boiler in the late '80s for kiln ...
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How thick and how long should a fish pond liner be?
How thick should a fish pond liner be? For the fish ponds, 0.5mm 0.75mm 1mm thickness is popular, because the pond liner should have a tensile strength, and puncture resistance, the sharp rock and tree branches cannot damage the pond liner easily. And these thickness is flexible, not heavy, easy to install. How long will a pond liner last? The pond liner can last 6-60years based on different ...
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Storytelling is the challenge, but it can also be the solution
America loves farmers, and the data proves it. The Industry of Farming & Agriculture has the highest favorability ratings of all U.S. industries, and farming is regularly ranked one of the most trustworthy professions… so why is there still a major disconnect between food producers and the end consumer? There’s a feeling of “us vs. them” on both sides, and it ...
By DP Techlink
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How to Get the City to Remove a Tree
Trees, whether they are located on public or private land, can be hazardous. They can also be a nuisance. The question is: what can you do to get your city to remove them? To get your city to remove a tree, you need to inform them of the potential danger, damage, or inconvenience that the tree is likely to cause to the public. Do so by writing to them, calling them, or contacting them via their ...
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Exactly How The New Pyrolysis Machines Can Make Waste Agricultural Products Into Money
As most people reside in or close to the cities all across the globe, many are surprised to learn that there is plenty of agricultural waste produced in farm areas. Actually, worldwide, there is about 998 million tonnes of organic waste produced every year. And, that amount actually makes up for huge percentage of all the solid waste on the planet. When you thought the area dump, or landfill, was ...
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2013: Silkstone State School Parking Bays - Case Study
At Silkstone State School QLD a contentious issue arose. The school required car parking and a sealed one at that. But in the proposed car park was a huge old tree. The tree could be cut down and the roots dug out or the tree could be left, with open soil above the root system to allow for infiltration to keep the tree healthy; but this would lose at least six car spaces. What was to be ...
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Forest Management
Using drones with remote sensing technologies for forest management Forest Management Applications How remote sensing technologies make a difference Remote sensing technologies can enhance forest managers’ ability to manage forestry operations in an increasingly complex and challenging ...
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Mineral Oxychloride to rescue citrus market in Florida
Since 2019 over 75% of the citrus crops (oranges 75% and grapefruit 85%) has been lost due to an infectious bacterium called huanglongbing (HLB) commonly known as “citrus greening”. Leaves of newly affected trees developed blotchy mottle appearance and the fruit is of no value-it has limited use in juicing operation. As of today, there has not being a commercially available solution ...
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Call for Funding to Support Vertical Farming in Cameroon
An ambitious new project to redesign agricultural practices and food stability is currently underway in Cameroon. The project is managed by the CDVTA, Community Development Volunteers for Technical Assistance, in collaboration with the Association for Vertical Farming and aims to improve the lives of rural farmers in North West Cameroon by developing local skills and knowledge. Factors such as ...
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Why doesn`t fruit have a good color?
There are Five factors Temperature affacts coloring. Low temperature promotes the formation of anthocyanins, while high temperature has the opposite inhibitory effect, which is why fruit trees often appear in producing areas with high temperature for a long time during the coloring period, where the fruit is very sweet and the fruit is ripe, but its color has not yet reached the standard for ...
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Find and Monitor Tree Crops for Sustainability
We can monitor agricultural production around the globe using satellites. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of satellites and the frequency and resolution of images being captured. Such large amount of data on a daily and weekly basis can be used with AI to detect crops. Current Best Practices Supply chain companies use manual scouting and surveys up to three times a season ...
By Deep Planet
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Use of Profile Probes saves time and money for EU funded FutMon forest monitoring team - case Study
FutMon project Delta‐T Profile Probes have been installed at four sites across the U.K. to provide soil moisture data as part of FutMon, an EU Life+ project. The aim of FutMon is to create a Europe‐ wide long term forest monitoring system. The FutMon partner organisation in the UK is Forest Research (Centre for Forestry and Climate Change). The data required for FutMon are being ...
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Tetra Tech undertakes hazardous tree removal
Cal Recycle, the California state agency tasked with overseeing tree and debris removal after the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, Northern California, intends to award a $67.5 million contract to Tetra Tech Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.) to manage the identification and removal of hazardous trees from private property near public infrastructure, according to the Chico Enterprise-Record. ...
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Tree Root Imaging at a Historical Site: In-Depth Assessment of Tree No. 1 – the Copper Beech Tree - Case Study
Background: A mature Copper Beech tree is located in a prominent position at a historical site in the United Kingdom that is known for its archaeological significance and is a major tourist attraction. The tree is of significant amenity value in this public place. It is also very close to a proposed development and is likely to be impacted by the construction of planned new structures. Its ...
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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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Tis the Season for Sharing
During the month of December, most of us are busy shopping, cooking, decorating and attending parties. Our days are filled with finding the perfect gift for our loved ones, baking dozens of cookies and deciding upon the best outfit to wear to each holiday event. Hours are spent with our families trimming the tree, lighting a menorah or celebrating the seven core principles of Kwanza. Regardless ...
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Wood Mulches to Use in the Vegetable Garden
Mulches cover the soil, control weed growth, preserve moisture and maintain soil temperature. Any vegetable garden will benefit from the use of mulch, especially in dry winters. Organic mulches also add organic matter to the soil, thus helping in the growth of plants. According to a study, a vegetable garden that uses mulch produces 50 percent more vegetables than an unmulched vegetable patch. ...
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