Livestock Bedding Articles
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How to guarantee optimal vegetable growing - a precision seed drill
Precise seeding is the key to production of high-quality crops. MAX PNEUMATIC seed drills are modern machines for seeding of various vegetable species, being differently formed and sized. As a result, it successfully sows almost all kinds of seeds, such as: carrots, parsley, cabbage, radish, onion, beetroot, etc. Moreover, it has been designed to meet the farmers needs and vegetable market ...
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How to make optimal condition for growing vegetables
The competition between vegetable producers, high production costs, expensive seeds and many other factors, mean that vegetable producers want to provide optimal conditions for their cropping. They want to get the best product that will meet the high customer’s needs. In addition to investing in seeds, fertilizers and plant protection products, you need the suitable equipment. This will ...
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A Brief Analysis about the Straw Crusher
The serious pollution of the air during the harvesttime let people realize the importance of rational utilization of straw. The straw crusher can crush the corn stalk, peanut shells and bean stalk etc, which are agricultural waste. By doing this can avoid the waste of the crop straw but also protect the environment and effectively develop the renewable energy. 1. The Working Principle of straw ...
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Wood Mulches to Use in the Vegetable Garden
Mulches cover the soil, control weed growth, preserve moisture and maintain soil temperature. Any vegetable garden will benefit from the use of mulch, especially in dry winters. Organic mulches also add organic matter to the soil, thus helping in the growth of plants. According to a study, a vegetable garden that uses mulch produces 50 percent more vegetables than an unmulched vegetable patch. ...
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Stream restoration - Case study
ERC was hired as the General Contractor for the stream restoration of Mill Creek in South Western Ohio. Our scope of work included the construction of one (1) riffle, rock toe, buried grade control, grading, and complete site stream restoration. After mobilizing to the site ERC cleared and grubbed the entire site and then excavated 2,900 CY of soil. In order to align the stream and to slope the ...
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Choosing the Right Light for Young Plants
Horticulture lighting research has been conducted on young plants (germination, seedlings, plugs and cuttings) for many years. Michigan State University published a series of articles in Greenhouse Grower (see references below) on bedding plant seedlings. In their research, Drs. Wollaeger and Runkle experimented with different LED wavelengths and compared them to fluorescent light on seedling ...
By Illumitex
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Steering for Yield, Comfort in the Field
The return on investment of GPS automated steering systems is almost never argued anymore. GPS technology has been proven to reduce overlap, resulting in fuel savings and productivity gains that farms of all sizes can appreciate. However, in my experience, the leading reason that farms today invest in a steering system is operator comfort. Many providers in the agricultural industry offer ...
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Using a Walnut Shell Filter as an RO Protection Filter
The purity of boiler feed water can be a critical part of the manufacturing process. This water needs to be free from contaminants in order for the boiler to operate correctly, without frequent shutdown for maintenance. For this reason, a membrane filtration train is frequently used. Unfortunately, the exposure of plant water to the manufacturing process means that the feed water can be ...
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AquaNES: Microbiological monitoring of reused waste water for irrigation of a golf course in Agon-Countainville, France - Case Study
The Site 9 of the AquaNES project in Agon-Countainville (France) uses secondary effluent after reed bed and sand dune filtration for golf course irrigation in a coastal area. The underlying aquifer is prone to salinization. The study of Agon-Countainville site will demonstrate how innovative water quality monitoring and modelling linked to data management and communication, facilitates an ...
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ANFIS approach to the working of a compost–heat extractor
Composting is an organic sludge management option in which volatile solids are converted to carbon dioxide and water. As the sugar cane press mud undergoes aerobic composting, the bed heats–up to a temperature in the range of 50–70°C, releasing thermal energy and the heat liberated was extracted using a heat pipe. A neural network approach is applied to analyse the data obtained ...
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Case study - Garden shop uses rainwater for bedding plants to beat the hosepipe ban
With the all the rain water falling on the shop’s roof, plus the new yard roof, and being free of charge, Matthew decided to fit rainwater harvesting. He wanted to be able to water the bedding plants and flowers, which are such an important attraction for clients of the shop. The Site Yalden Garden Store in Chalfont St Giles, South Bucks, is a popular shopping destination for hardware, ...
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Case study: Tobacco drying
Challenge Customer wanted to automate and optimize an old process that increases the leaf factor of tobacco. The new technology must be able to fit within the existing physical constraints of the plant structure without redesign of the facility. Approach General Kinematics was approached by the customer to qualify their process. Through the qualification, GK demonstrated that a properly ...
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Residence time and contact volume in sloped compost and compost/vegetated filter beds
Little is known about transport mechanisms in sloped dormant vegetated and compost only filters for roadway runoff. Residence time experiments were carried out in triplicate in 0.254 m wide × 0.65 m long by 0.10 m deep beds using a bromide tracer. Bed slope was 12°. Only at the lowest flow rate tested (0.276 l/min per m of filter width) were mean residence times in compost beds with and without ...
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A root-zone soil regime of wheat: physiological and growth responses to furrow irrigation in raised bed planting in northern China
Different irrigation methods in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) result in different water and nutrient use efficiencies and, ultimately, plant growth. A field experiment was conducted during the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 crop cycles to investigate the effects of furrow irrigated raised bed planting and the effects of flood irrigated conventional planting on growth and productivity in winter wheat. In ...
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Redrow homes farnborough
Tree root protection is a task faced by many developers as they seek to provide cost-effective housing whilst preserving the surrounding environment in the face of large scale developments. A perfect example is Redrow Home’s exciting new housing project, Farnborough Central located within 2.5km of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (SPA), a site requiring adequate measures for ...
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Monitoring of Nitrate Leaching in Sandy Soils: Comparison of Three Methods
Abstract Proper N fertilizer and irrigation management can reduce nitrate leaching while maintaining crop yield, which is critical to enhance the sustainability of vegetable production on soils with poor water and nutrient-holding capacities. This study evaluated different methods to measure nitrate leaching in mulched drip-irrigated zucchini, pepper, and tomato production systems. Fertigation ...
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STA0013: Research into increasing the use of recycled materials in the production of growing media
Untitled Document This report records a trial on four pot bedding plant subjects at Golden Acres Nursery carried out in spring 2003. The nursery is based on the south coast in Dorset and specialises in the production of shrubs, bedding plants, hanging baskets and planted containers. This trial was part of WRAP project STA0013 which investigated the use of recycled materials ...
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The combustion of oil sand beds containing an axial fracture
The processes within simplified laboratory cylindrical beds of specially reconstituted oil sand during oil recovery are described. The beds contained a small diameter cylindrical axial passage of high permeability representing a fracture where hot vitiated air of known composition was fed steadily. The fuel sand cores tested contained either pure hydrocarbon or extracted oil off naturally ...
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