Plant Roots Articles
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Improving alfalfa irrigation in The west
Alfalfa grown for forage is a major crop in many areas of the western United States. In the arid and semi–arid west, irrigation is required to obtain economic alfalfa yields. Because alfalfa is a perennial crop with a potentially long growing season, it can use a substantial amount of water. Alfalfa production in Imperial County, CA, has been valued at more than $170 million dollars for ...
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Subsurface drip irrigation; the future of Irrigation is Underground
Placing water beneath the soil surface via buried lines is slowly becoming the "preferred choice" of many vineyard irrigators. The reasons are many, including the absence of surface evaporation, as well as reduced weed growth, herbicide washout, maintenance, injury, and vandalism found with using conventional water application systems. The advantages of subsurface drip add to reduced cost for ...
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How a California Viticulturist uses Biological Control and Cultural Practices to Combat Pests
While augmentative releases of beneficial insects and mites are becoming increasingly popular in vineyards, it is still rare to find a grower in California with over a decade’s worth of experience using augmentative biological control. David Gates is the senior vice president of vineyard operations at Ridge Vineyards, a winery with a facility in Sonoma County and another one in the Santa ...
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How do I stop tree roots from invading my garden?
Our carefully arranged own gardens are usually destroyed by plants such as fruit trees and bamboo planted by neighbors in daily life. This will make us feel very upset. But how can we solve this dilemma? If you want to achieve the effect of water storage and drainage, it is recommended to use water storage to drain cells, and then there is a root barrier under the storage row to prevent plant ...
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How do you make a tree root barrier?
With the development of the economy, people are more and more aware of the importance of environmental protection, and more and more green spaces are planned in cities’ construction. Yet, because trees root will occupy most of the underground space, the cement panels and roads in the garden are fragmented, so the product of root barrier appeared, and now HDPE LLDPE geomembrane is used in ...
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Project - Whispering Woods Golf Course Installs AirDrain in Green and Bunker
Whispering Woods Golf Course Installs AirDrain Drainage in Putting Green and Bunker Sand Trap New golf construction is faster, more efficient and LEED qualifying with AirDrain - that’s why Whispering Woods Golf Course chose AirField System’s AirDrain. They utilized AirDrain under greens and bunkers, resulting in 100% vertical drainage, rapid water movement, and no pumping out flooded ...
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Project - Golf Course Drainage Using Airdrain at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course
Putting Greens, Bunkers and Tee Box Golf Course Drainage using AirDrain at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course AirDrain for Putting Greens, Bunkers and Tee Boxes The AirField Systems AirDrain for Golf Putting Greens installed at Robert Trent Jones, home of The President’s Cup, continues to perform since 2004. Stronger roots, healthier turf, superior drainage and the ability to make ...
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Controlled Environment Agriculture - The future of growing
Food security, nutrition and the future of farming are challenges that face us all, but with innovation and research, there are solutions at hand. Commercial indoor growing is a fast-paced and ever-evolving industry. And rightly so, if we have any hope of feeding growing populations with high quality, nutrient-dense food then we need to be looking beyond conventional farming and start embracing ...
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Gibberellic Acid 90 MHz - Case Study
Gibberellic acid Gibberellic acid is a plant hormone and the most used substance from the group of Gibberellins. In the industry it is used mainly to stimulate rapid stem and root growth and to speed up the germination. Figure 1 shows the 1H NMR spectrum of a 250 mM Gibberellic acid sample in MeOH-d4 measured in a single scan taking 10 seconds to ...
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cheap 50 72 128cell trays wholesale supplier
Due to the need for higher temperature, it is necessary to sprinkle some warm water on the leaves regularly. Plants placed in a dry environment can put a layer of wet small gravel in the flower pot to promote the growth of plants. Seedlings are planted from March to April in spring, or preferably from September to October in winter. Sowing before the frost season. In winter, please manage ...
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Soil sensors - vital for crop steering & yield manipulation
Crop steering - an introduction. Crop steering is a fairly new term that’s increased in popularity recently, but some growers have been using crop steering techniques for many years. The phrase crop steering is most often used by cannabis growers in relation to commercial cultivation of medicinal cannabis plants, but is applicable to commercial cultivators across the board. After all, ...
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Autumn Strawberry Update: the chances of botrytis and rots developing on the fruits have increased due to weather
Soft Fruit Agronomist, Dr Neil Holmes, gives an autumn strawberry update. As strawberry crops approach the autumn season, several challenges remain for late 60-day June bearer and ever bearer crops. Inclement weather over recent weeks has increased the chances of botrytis and rots developing on the fruits. By the time grey mould has developed on the fruit, there is little that can be done to ...
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Irrigating with reclaimed water through permanent subsurface drip irrigation systems
ABSTRACT In Hawaii, reclaimed water has been used in agricultural irrigation and the irrigation of golf courses and other large landscaped areas. However, the Hawaii Department of Health's new "Guidelines for the Treatment and Use of Reclaimed Water" published in November 1993, limits uses of reclaimed water through overhead sprinkler irrigation systems. The subsurface drip irrigation concept ...
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Water reuse through subsurface drip irrigation systems
Water reuse in Hawaii has been primarily relegated to agricultural irrigation and irrigation of golf courses and other large landscaped areas. The continuing effort to conserve and preserve potable water resources emphasizes using alternative water sources for irrigation. Agriculture, golf courses, highways, parks, playgrounds and cemeteries are among the heaviest users of irrigation water due to ...
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Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) on Turfgrass: A University Experience
ABSTRACT The practice of placing tubing and drip emitters beneath the soil surface to irrigate crops continues to gain acceptance in agriculture, particularly in the production of annual crops. However, the use of the subsurface drip method to irrigate turfgrass has only begun to be explored. This paper focuses on the experiences gained at California State University, Fresno (CSUF) in adopting ...
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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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Sound Advice: Increasing Nutrient Availability and Uptake
Sales agronomists Zach Carlson and Sarah Taylor discuss the relationship between soil microbes and soil health, and how this relationship impacts the bioavailability of the nutrients plants need. The presence of soil microbes makes a functional soil, holding and releasing nutrients that plants require. Proper levels of these microbes reduces plant stress and increases the bioavailability ...
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Root feeding of plants in the conditions of No-Till technology
About 6.5 million hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine are either degraded or unproductive. Above mentioned data are provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. According to the opinion of other experts, impoverished soils occupy much bigger area and consist about 15 million hectares. The decrease in the amount of humus and the general deterioration of land is ...
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Injection method of fertilization (Cultan technology)
Dosage of liquid fertilizers Liquid mineral fertilizers have already proven their advantages over granular fertilizers, these namely are prolonged action and maximum absorption of the active substance. So here is the question, what is the most effective way of using liquid fertilizers? Taking into consideration the reasons for transition to soil fertilizers, agronomists and farmers often point ...
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Sound Advice: Meeting Corn`s Nutrient Demands
In this edition of Sound Advice, Will Llewellyn, Sales Agronomist, shares his insights on how growers can meet corn’s nutrient demand all season long. Early in the crop’s life, nutrient needs increase slowly, until corn reaches the V10 to V14 window of peak nutrient demand. By the end of that window, much of the fertilizer applied since last fall has run its course. Fertilizer ...
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