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May 13, 2019

By Autogrow Systems Ltd

Washington, DC: Best Practices For Community Composting The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) just released “Community Composting Done Right: A Guide to Best Management Practices,” written by ILSR’s Linda Bilsens Brolis and Brenda Platt. “Though small-scale composters are often exempt from certain state permitting or local zoning requirements, it is paramount that ...

Apr. 30, 2019

By BioCycle Magazine

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, ...

Apr. 17, 2019

By Major Equipment

“On behalf of the whole international PEFC community, we are honoured and proud that our Chairman, Peter, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Commissioner to the Forestry Commission in England,” said Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC International. “His wide ranging expertise in all aspects of the international timber trade, combined with his skills in leading and achieving ...

Apr. 2, 2019

By PEFC International

At the end of the year, sales of machines and equipment for gardening and landscaping showed an overall increase of 3.2%. The Comagarden/Morgan data relating to the main product types confirm the growth of battery-powered machines and equipment. The market for machinery and equipment for gardening and landscaping closes 2018 with an increase in sales compared to 2017. The ...

Apr. 2, 2019

By FederUnacoma Italian Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Federation

The purpose of this video is to demonstrate possible alternatives to “land clearing methods”. Although you are viewing equipment in the tens and hundreds of thousands, they are extremely successful in relocating healthy, beautiful trees. However, this “alternative” is still very much dependant on private contracting companies that are willing to use newer methods of land ...

Apr. 1, 2019

By Dutchman Industries Inc

Forests provide so much. They are beautiful, they keep our water fresh, they clean our air, and their timber is an important renewable and sustainable resource for so many of our day-to-day products. Yet there is so much more about forests than meets the eye, and forests inspire and evoke deep emotions in many of us. It is these emotions that we want to capture with our new video series, ...

Mar. 21, 2019

By PEFC International

THE MOST comprehensive and contemporary data available on all sectors of the Australian horticulture industry is now available through the release of the 2017/18 Horticulture Statistics Handbook. Released by Hort Innovation, the Handbook features information drawn from several supply chain and trade sources and it includes data on more than 70 horticultural products including fruit, nuts, ...

Mar. 10, 2019

By Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited

The JRC released ERM®-BC700, a Certified Reference Material (CRM) for the analysis of eleven pesticide residues in soya to support quality assurance for control laboratories. It will also ensure the comparability of measurement results assisting the European single market and trade. Pesticides are substances used in agricultural production with the purpose to control pests, including weeds. ...

Feb. 27, 2019

By European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

ALLCOT Group and reNature Foundation signed an agreement to generate carbon credits from Agroforestry projects located above all in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. Carbon credits have always been dialoguing mainly with reforestation programs, but now it’s time to give Agroforestry a chance. Since Agriculture is the major driver of depletion of natural resources worldwide, ...

Feb. 25, 2019

By ALLCOT

Brussels, 21st of February 2019 – Agriculture is set for a digital revolution, just as farm machines profoundly transformed it one century ago. Modern agricultural machines in combination with digital farming tools are the “essential kit” that farmers should endorse to increase the sustainability, ...

Feb. 20, 2019

By CEMA aisbl - European Agricultural Machinery

Did you know that the average American eats 124 lbs of potatoes a year, that the potato was the first vegetable to be grown in space, and Vincent van Gogh painted four still-life canvases devoted entirely to the potato!? ...

Oct. 3, 2018

By AgBiome, Inc.

Research Triangle Park, NC (September 5, 2018) --  ...

Sep. 4, 2018

By AgBiome, Inc.

Set within Scotland’s Golf Coast, the 18 hole links course at Dunbar Golf Club demands accuracy and judgement as play follows natural contours and a rocky shoreline. Currently in the middle of a sward conversion programme, Course Manager Paul Armour recently took delivery of a BLEC Multiseeder, allowing him to increase the frequency of overseeding whilst leaving minimal disruption on the ...

Aug. 8, 2018

By Charterhouse Turf Machinery Ltd

Culturally vital, ecologically unique, and economically valuable, the yellow cedar’s fate is closely tied to snow I am in the middle of the most pristine forest in North America; in all likelihood no one has stood where I stand for hundreds of years. And I am surrounded by dead trees. Huge, monolithic individuals, three feet across and over a hundred feet tall – and the vast majority ...

Jul. 22, 2018

By Earth Island Institute

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Jun. 20, 2018

By MB Crusher

Soriška Planina Ski Resort is a family Slovenian ski resort located in municipality of Železniki, Slovenia. Famous all year around for skiing, sledding and hiking, so we packed our planinski čaj and went to make a stone wall. The weather last winter was very rough for the hedges of the road ...

Jun. 20, 2018

By MB Crusher

School will soon be out and summer is a great time for families to reduce waste in fun and new ways! First, remember to keep practicing the basics—reduce, reuse, and recycle. Find new ways to reduce your waste—eat more fruits and vegetables with compostable scraps and use fewer packaged snacks. Reuse what you already have—pack lunches for work or summer camp in washable ...

May 7, 2018

By Eco Partners, Inc.

The lubricants industry is acutely aware of the need for environmentally-conscious options and sustainable development choices. In response to this demand, biolubricants began to make their mark a few years back. The term biolubricants applies to all lubricants that biodegrade expediently and which are non-toxic for both human beings and aquatic habitats. They may be plant-oil based (such as ...

Apr. 18, 2018

By Koehler Instrument Company Inc

FIA Data Confirm Forest Growth in US South Outpaces Harvesting Rates By Kim Cesafsky, Manager of Sustainability You may have noticed a few changes to Enviva’s Forest Trend Map page and Track & ...

Apr. 17, 2018

By Enviva LP