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SoilMatrix Garden - Summer 2016
Probably one of the most rewarding activities on the planet – Gardening. Throughout the summer of 2016, AirTerra will be featuring the SoilMatrix Garden. Every two weeks a new photo of the garden will be posted to chart its progress. The soil for this garden was prepared with a 10% blend of SoilMatrix biochar (by volume) with 90% good garden soil from Eagle Lake. Blending was accomplished ...
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Dense planting no obstacle to growth – if the trees are cloned
It isn’t competition for nutrients that make densely planted trees give a worse yield per hectare. The problem is actually genetics. So said World Bioenergy Award winner Professor Laércio Couta at the World Bioenergy conference in Jönköping, Sweden. Laércio Couta won the World Bioenergy Award for his work on eucalyptus cultivation in Brazil. At the conference in ...
By Elmia AB
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100,000 Trees and Counting: Dominion Branches Out With Project Plant It!
Dominion Resources and its award-winning environmental education program, Project Plant It!, will celebrate a milestone in April with the ceremonial planting of the 100,000th tree distributed to students since the program was launched in 2007. According to the Virginia Department of Forestry, the equivalent of more than 250 acres of new forest land will be created if all 100,000-plus tree ...
By Dominion
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Light-emitting Diode Sole-source Lighting Effective in Bedding Plant Seedling Production
In northern latitudes, producers of bedding plants depend on supplemental lighting during the late winter and early spring growing seasons. Unfortunately, these peak times for young plant production are also the darkest. Researchers have determined that a minimum amount of photosynthetic light (daily light integral; DLI) is necessary to produce high-quality young plants in greenhouses. In ...
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In Nordic Gardens (Nordiska Trädgårdar) in Stockholm, Nordic countries are introduced to the best that Latvia can offer.
“Razosanas Tehnologijas” – the domestic producer of organic fertilizers participated in the largest industry exhibition in Sweden, which is popular throughout Scandinavia. The leading Scandinavian gardeners’ exhibition is held annually in Stockholm, Sweden, at the end of March. From 350 to 400 exhibitors from all over the world, from 600 different media representatives ...
By GreenOK
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UF/IFAS research may give new hope to expanding avocado production
Findings from new University of Florida research may lead growers to produce avocados in the Indian River region of Florida, an area where the citrus industry has fallen on hard times. The research comes from a dissertation by Cristina Pisani, who recently completed her doctorate in horticultural sciences at the University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center near Fort Pierce. ...
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The principle that gardens need irrigation
1. Irrigation principle The amount of irrigation, the number of irrigation times and the time should be determined according to the water demand characteristics, growth stage, climate and soil conditions of medicinal plants, and timely, appropriate and reasonable irrigation. 2. The types of irrigation mainly include irrigation before planting, seedling irrigation, growth and irrigation, and ...
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Slash-and-burn `improves tropical forest biodiversity`
Slash-and-burn agricultural practices, banned by governments because of the risk of uncontrolled fires, provide better growing conditions for valuable new trees than more modern methods of forest clearance, a study suggests. Starting in 1996, researchers cleared 24 half-hectare areas of tropical forest in Quintana Roo state, in southern Mexico, using three methods: clear-felling, where most of ...
By SciDev.Net
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New trial ensures successful planting of seedlings to restore areas in Pantanal degraded by fires
The pilot project uses the transplantation of seedlings due to a shortage in production of native seeds, necessary to restore forests around the Cuiabá River, Pantanal, that have recently been degraded by fires in the region. The actions are taking place in the Sesc Baía das Pedras Park – Sesc Pantanal, carried out by a team of researchers from the CPP/INAU and UFMT, together ...
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Syngenta expands new planting solutions for sugar cane in Brazil
Syngenta today announced the launch of two new products for sugar cane under the company's exclusive PLENE® brand. Plene Evolve® and Plene PB will help growers increase yields and plant quality by providing healthy young plants with an assurance of genetic purity, vigor and traceability. In order to maintain productivity, sugar cane producers need to replant cane every five years. ...
By Syngenta
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ArborGen Continues Support of “Plant a Tree at Flight 93” Reforestation Efforts
ArborGen, the world leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees, announced that for the second consecutive year it has supported the “Plant a Tree at Flight 93”reforestation efforts at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Led by the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining – ...
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FirstCarbon Solutions pushes sustainable resource use, joins tree-planting
ADEC Group member FirstCarbon Solutions, a global industry leader providing managed energy and sustainability services, demonstrated its continuing commitment to the sustainable use of resources and improving environmental performance by taking part in an urban tree-planting initiative led by the Rotary Club of Mandaluyong East (RCME). The company—which helps its clients profitably improve ...
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Potentially harmful effects of nanomaterials on soybean crops
A new study has examined contamination of fully grown soybean plants by two nanomaterials – nano-cerium oxide and nano-zinc oxide. The results could be concerning, as they indicate that the nanomaterials are absorbed by plants, possibly affecting growth, yield, and the fixation of nitrogen in soil, an important ecosytem service. With the rapid expansion of nanotechnology, there is concern ...
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Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Visits Flight 93 Memorial, Donates Trees to Honor Fallen Passengers
Governor Tom Corbett and First Lady Susan Corbett today visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County to honor the sacrifice of the passengers and crew by presenting donated trees for the site. This is the second year of a major volunteer reforestation effort at the memorial that will eventually result in 150,900 new trees at the site. The plans for the memorial, operated by the ...
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Neonicotinoids: may reduce crop yields by poisoning insects that eat slug pests
Beetles that are helpful to farmers can be poisoned if they feed on slugs that have eaten crops treated with neonicotinoids, a new study reports. The slugs themselves are not harmed by neonicotinoids. In American field trials, researchers found that plots planted with neonicotinoid-treated soybeans contained more slugs, fewer beetle predators and had 5% lower yields. The insecticide may be ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Agrochemical Technologies Making Rapid Advancements
Agrochemical technology has huge potential for development as it shifts from solely providing crop yields for food and feed purposes to aiding the production of biomass used for renewable chemical production. Environmental concerns and government legislation to decrease chemical exposure to crops have spurred extensive research and development (R&D) activities, leading to rapid technological ...
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Will tropical forests survive a changing climate?
Most people are familiar with tree-planting as a way to offset carbon emissions. However, while the focus has been on reforestation and preventing deforestation, there has been little emphasis on how the world's tropical forests, managed for production purposes, will actually be able to adapt to the changing climate. According to a new study, there is an urgent need to put measures in place to ...
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MARVIN™ technology saves agriculture & horticulture time and money
Four hundred thousand seedlings, nearly half of what a plant grower of, say, young tomato plants, produces in one season; this is the amount that sorting machines with the MARVIN technology can process in a single day. They rapidly make 3D models of the plants and accurately evaluate their size and features in milliseconds. “The information can be automatically recorded in a database and ...
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No Climate Benefit Gained by Planting Temperate Forests
SAN FRANCISCO, California, (ENS) - Planting forests in temperate regions such as the United States and Europe may not yield any benefit for the global climate, and may instead contribute to warming, according to a new study set for presentation Saturday at the American Geophysical Society annual meeting in San Francisco. By contrast, trees planted in tropical rainforests could indeed help to ...
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EPA participates in Blue Mountain tree planting project at Palmerton Zinc Superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three partner organizations are planting 5,500 new trees on 70 acres of mountainside at the Palmerton Zinc Superfund Site along the Appalachian Trail in Palmerton, Pa. that will be in place by Memorial Day. “EPA is proud to be part of this tree planting venture that helps transform a previously barren and contaminated site into a beautiful ...
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