Tree Health News
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Investancia Group and BioEnergy Plantations Australia Pty Ltd extend world-leading pongamia tree genetics partnership
Leading agro-research companies BioEnergy Plantations Australia Pty Ltd (BPA) and Investancia Group have agreed to extend their world-leading pongamia tree genetics partnership. Based on new propagation protocols and the exclusive access to the world’s best pongamia genetics – Investancia and BPA will further cooperate in developing volume-based reforestation and commercial planting ...
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Sioen transplants 15 large trees as part of the Green Deal and CSR
Tuinen Brouckaert, our partner for garden landscaping, has transplanted 15 large deciduous trees from one Sioen HQ area to another. As we aim to preserve and improve biodiversity, we have chosen to keep the trees. This time-consuming and rather expensive initiative is well worth the effort, as deciduous trees are essential for life. A NEW PARKING LOT At our Ardooie HQ, we need more parking ...
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Water UK and Friends of the Earth call on Government to act on tree planting
Water UK has partnered with Friends of the Earth to call on the Government to do more to promote tree planting in England. The two organisations have written to Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment, to call for the introduction of targets to increase tree planting across the country. The letter urges the Government to use the England Tree Strategy to set a target ...
By Water UK
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Minimise maintenance and maximise productivity
As a full-service grounds maintenance and management company, based in Stoke-on-Trent, Cropper Grounds Maintenance Ltd., is a family-owned business and was established in 2001. Building on its initial focus of providing a reliable and ‘very’ high-quality service to its customer base, the enterprise has excelled considerably and today, employs over 90 staff members. Their role is ...
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Drones effective tools for fruit farmers
People have used the phrase “drone on and on” for a long time. Webster’s dictionary defines this figure of speech as “to speak for a long time in a dull voice without saying anything interesting.” Yet, in agriculture, drones aren’t dull, at all! Farmers use drones to be more efficient. Drones help farmers improve yields and stay ahead of problems before they ...
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The Way The New Pyrolysis Machines Can Make Waste Agricultural Products Into Money
Since the majority people live in or near the cities all around the world, lots of people are surprised to discover that there is a huge amount of agricultural waste manufactured in farm areas. In reality, worldwide, there may be about 998 million tonnes of organic waste produced annually. And, that amount actually makes up for huge percentage of all the solid waste on earth. In the event you ...
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Presentation: Forest Health Monitoring in the Oil Sands - Update!
On June 18, 2019, the WBEA presented findings from over a decade of the Terrestrial Environmental Effects Monitoring (TEEM) Program. The WBEA has monitored forest health in the RMWB for the past 20 years, and recently completed a publication project to summarize findings in key areas. The publication project involved the development and submission of nine manuscripts to an open-source scientific ...
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Exactly How The New Pyrolysis Machines Can Make Waste Agricultural Products Into Money
Because most people live in or close to the cities all around the world, the majority are surprised to learn that there is a lot of agricultural waste created in farm areas. Actually, worldwide, there is certainly about 998 million tonnes of organic waste produced each and every year. And, that amount actually makes up for huge percentage of the solid waste in the world. Should you thought the ...
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Eye-witness at the launch site: CAMERAS ON BEAP
By Aljaž Kropivšek, a Senior Customer Support Engineer at Dewesoft My colleague, Geneviève Siret, and I were tasked to set up a measurement system with two cameras for one of the Ariane 5 launches. CNES needed to replace their old cameras, which were starting to become quite dated and Dewesoft was tasked to replace the old rocket launch video monitoring system on the Ariane ...
By DEWESoft
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Major Swift scores for the top league clubs
When a professional football club asks you how you produced such a first class finish to a football pitch – you’ve got to be doing something right! Pride of workmanship is one of the key values of landscape contractors, H & I Kelly Landscape, based out of Poole, Dorset. It’s totally manned by a family team led by Hugh Kelly who started the business back in 1976, Irena, ...
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Delimber now available for every TMK model
Very popular attachment, especially on TMK 300, the Delimber has been available for TMK 200 for a while and now finally for TMK 400 as well. Whatever the size of your machine, you can now add the Delimber to your shear package and thus ensure the best possible versatility to your tree clearing job. Our Delimber works without any expensive feeding systems, so it is very simple and mechanically ...
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John Deere Introduces Narrower Stick Booms for M-Series Tracked Harvesters
To help loggers maximize timber quality, John Deere has upgraded its harvester stick boom attachment across all 800MH- and 900MH-Series tracked harvesters. The new stick boom geometry delivers the same high level of boom envelope performance, but with a narrower design to help operators minimize damage to harvested trees. "Avoiding unnecessary damage to harvested trees while operating out in ...
By John Deere
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The problem expands for avocado growers: 9 beetle species carry deadly fungus
Many people love their avocados – not to mention guacamole dip. So it was bad enough when scientists said a beetle was ravaging avocado trees in South Florida. Then scientists found out that the redbay ambrosia beetle — originally determined to transmit laurel wilt — is rare in avocado groves but that six other beetle species could carry the laurel wilt pathogen. That’s ...
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Helo Cymru! We’ve partnered with Keep Wales Tidy
Wybone is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Keep Wales Tidy; the leading Wales based charity dedicated to making a positive difference and protecting the environment. The partnership agreement will see Wybone supporting the charity by sponsoring local awards and encouraging positive activities to improve the environment. In addition, we’ll be working closely with the ...
By Wybone
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Repellant could keep dangerous beetles away from avocado trees
Using some pleasant-smelling chemicals, avocado growers may soon be able to repel beetles that inject a potentially deadly fungus into their trees, saving fruit and money, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers say. When they’re infected with the laurel wilt fungus, redbay trees – a close cousin to the avocado — emit methyl salicylate to ...
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Four N113 HiTech 5 Tractors in Council Work
Like most British cities and towns, Derby includes a lot of open spaces – everything from acres of parkland, playing fields and golf courses to grass verges and central reservations. All of this land requires maintenance, such as grass cutting and replanting, tree cutting and the removal of cut timber, and repairs to the infrastructure, including roadways, walls and ornamental bridges. To ...
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Countries celebrate World Olive Day with IOC grants
In order to bring the IOC closer to its member countries and increase the visibility of the Organisation, on 2 September the Executive Secretariat published a call for proposals for grants to co-finance celebrations of World Olive Day (26 November) in IOC member countries. The idea is to set up an annual celebration of World Olive Day across all member countries, through simultaneous events ...
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Composting plant Lobau awarded with European Quality Label
At the SusGro 2015 in Vienna the composting plant Lobau was awarded with the European Quality Label by the Austrian Compost Quality Organisation (KGVÖ). The certificate was handed over by ECN Quality Manager Stefanie Siebert and Horst Müller, General Manager of KGVÖ, in the town hall of Vienna. The Austrian Compost Quality Assurance Organisation ‘KGVÖ’ has ...
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UF/IFAS imaging system can detect citrus greening before symptoms show
A time-lapse polarized imaging system may help citrus growers detect greening before the plant’s leaves show symptoms, which should help growers as they try to fend off the deadly disease, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences study shows. For the new study, Won Suk “Daniel” Lee and Alireza Pourreza wanted to know how early citrus leaves with ...
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IOC Executive Director meets with Phil Hogan in Brussels
The Executive Director and the Deputy Director in charge of Technical, Economic and Promotional Affairs were received on 27 October 2016 by the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan. Phil Hogan, who is the former Irish Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, has been in charge of EU agricultural and rural affairs and the common agricultural ...
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