Tree Farming Articles
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Product introduction of tree branch crusher
Branch crusher, also known as wood chip crusher, sawdust crusher or sawdust machine, is a new type of mechanical equipment used in the front-end production process of producing wood powder (sawdust). It integrates slicing and crushing into one, and can chop branches and branches with a diameter of 1-20 cm. It can also be used to chop fibrous stalk-like materials such as bamboo, thatch, corn ...
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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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How to create perfect scouting reports in three easy steps
Scouting reports hold incredible value if done correctly. Growers, crop advisors and their teams can share relevant information, keep track of important occurrences and make better decisions based on facts. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create the best and most efficient scouting reports. One of the first and oldest field data collection methods is scouting. Farmers would ...
By Farm21 BV
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Soil tensiometer
What is a soil tensimeter? Soil tensimeter uses the principle of negative pressure to measure soil moisture and studies soil moisture movement from the perspective of energy. Transparent PVC pipe can clearly see the amount of water, low-end with high-quality clay head, fast sealing, accurate measurement. Soil tensiometer is a practical method to measure soil condition by using a negative pressure ...
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5 features to look for when selecting drone RGB sensors for phenotyping
Selecting a Drone to Meet Your phenotyping Needs: As drones have become better, less expensive, and easier to use, more researchers have been incorporating them into their trial assessment programs. The new generation of drones are bringing more capacity to assess new and previously inaccessible traits such as wheat head count, flower/fruit counting and classification, and phenological stage ...
By Hiphen
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July Plant and Planner update: Soil temperature and a new area map design
Here's what's new on the Plant Mobile and Web apps following the latest update: On the Plant Mobile app: Soil temperature and a new area map page Biological activity in the root zone, and the plant's capacity for water and minerals uptake is strongly dependent on soil temperature. It is also key for the germination process, and the end of dormancy for deciduous fruit tree. Phytech now ...
By Phytech
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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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Project - Pasumai Tamil Nadu (Tamil Nadu)
Every year farmers in Tamil Nadu suffer crippling debts due to severe crop loss caused by acute shortage of water during non-monsoon seasons. The situation becomes grave when farmers get trapped in debts for not repaying loans on time. Since agriculture is the main source of income of rural farmers in Tamil Nadu, the adversities of failed harvest makes many of them to even commit suicide. ...
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Project - Green Thar (Rajasthan)
Rajasthan comprises mostly of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert, facing low yields, scanty irrigation facilities, low fertility and high alkalinity of soil. In pursuit of creating lush green forest in middle of Thar, SankalpTaru is developing orchards of pomegranate and other fruit bearing trees by providing horticulture farming in the rural villages. This is enabling poor farmers to sustain ...
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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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Ammoniation granulation of NPK compound fertilizer production line
Compound fertilizer is suitable for all kinds of soil, wheat, corn, melon and fruit, peanut, vegetables, beans, flowers, fruit trees and other crops and economic crops. It is suitable for base fertilizer, seed fertilizer, topdressing, seed fertilizer and flushing application. The compound fertilizer produced by ammoniation granulation NPK compound fertilizer production line adopts ammoniation and ...
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NPK compound fertilizer production line ammoniating granulation
Ammonization granulation of npk compound fertilizer production line: The principle is to add potassium chloride and sulfuric acid into the reaction tank to heat and react under certain conditions. After the escaped HCL gas is absorbed by water, a certain concentration of hydrochloric acid can be produced to produce potassium hydrogen sulfate Mixed with dilute phosphoric acid to form mixed acid. ...
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Calabria 01 - ZE-175-LT - Pruning Residues - Case Study
Plant: 1 x ZE-175-LT Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module, nominal output 175 kWe Nominal output: 175 kWe Application: Power generation in combination with a boiler burning biomass (pruning residues) Location: Province of Cosenza, Calabria,Italy) Manager: Private Italian firm The client who commissioned us this plant is an authorized solid waste manager, which started in 1993 ...
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Drones: 4 Ways Drone Technology is Revolutionizing Farm Management
If you’ve ever flown a model airplane, you can fly a drone. If you haven’t flown a model airplane… you can still fly a drone. Because of how technology has evolved, it’s now easier than ever to take advantage of the new opportunities advancing ag tech has to offer. Over the last decade, drone technology has steadily been growing as part of a practical approach to ...
By Growers
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How to better color the fruit
Open the light path and promote coloring. Promote photosynthetic crops, promote fruit dry matter accumulation and soluble sugar accumulation, can better promote fruit color conversion. Proper fertilizer and water to promote coloring. In the fruit growth period, especially in the late growth period, it is necessary to continuously increase the application rate of potash fertilizer. Of course, ...
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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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Summer Irrigation Makes the Crop
Summer Irrigation Makes the Crop Summertime. At this point in the growing season, fruit for tree and vine crops has long been set. Now, the challenge is to bring as much of this yield potential to harvest, and at the desired quality. Irrigation management is crucial to achieve this goal. For most crops, irrigation should provide readily available soil moisture continuously so that fruit and ...
By Farm(x)
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Soft Fruits Early Spring Fertilizers
Early-spring maintenance of soft fruit trees is important to start the growing season correctly and to prepare the trees for healthy, vigorous growth and an abundant harvest. Without early-spring fertilizing, fruit trees may suffer unnecessarily stunted or weak growth and damage. Here are the perfect tips from Oligro to start early spring fertilizing. Fertilizers: 16-8-24 Fertilizer Boroni ...
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