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In a year marked by abnormally early crop disease pressures, over 880 British farmers, agronomists, and advisors have made use of the free IPM Tool to create over 1200 bespoke IPM cropping plans online. As part of a new update released this week, new benchmarking functionality allows users to view current invertebrate pest, disease, and weed risks on a national level, and compare their IPM ...
Shallots, an onion variety, is the second major horticultural crop after hot peppers in Indonesia. But Indonesia is not self-sufficient in shallot production resulting in imports from countries like India, Thailand, and Vietnam. ...
Selection preference will be given to applicants who are enrolled in a Crop Science, Horticulture or Food Science Program. Applications are due no later than January 31, 2017. ...
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That’s why agricultural experts from The Ohio State University are offering tips on how to keep those herbicides from getting onto other crops, especially valuable specialty crops such as grapes. Doug Doohan and Roger Downer, both of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, are the authors of “Reducing 2,4-D and ...
Everyone believes it, because everyone sees it year by year” “Wine grapes are one of the world’s most valuable horticultural crops and there is increasing evidence that climate change has caused earlier harvest days in this region in recent decades,” said Dr Cook. ...
"Wine grapes are one of the world's most valuable horticultural crops and there is increasing evidence that climate change has caused earlier harvest days in this region in recent decades," said Ben Cook, lead author and climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York. ...
It negatively affects crop yields and causes global annual losses of between $11 and $26 (€9.82 and €23.22) billion in the agricultural sector. Some horticultural crops, including tomatoes, are especially sensitive to ozone. ...
Over 30 experts from across the world of horticulture are slated to deliver lectures and participate in panel discussions on a variety of topics, ranging from general industry subject matter like “Trends in fresh fruit and vegetable consumption” and “Reducing the gap between the farmer and the consumer” to location-specific crop topics, ...
“It has been a long time coming, but our new facility will enhance the research and educational capabilities of our programs,” said Michelle Jones, professor and chair of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science’s Greenhouse Committee. “It is a huge improvement from the greenhouses that previously occupied this ...
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology issued "Emissions from Crops" a POST note (486) on 20th January 2015. Agriculture contributes 9% of the UK's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions burden and 10-12&% globally. ...
As interest in organic agricultural and horticultural practices continues to grow, so does the need to identify alternative weed control practices. ...
Egypt is an important exporter of horticultural crops such as green beans, sweet pepper, tomatoes, strawberries and cucumbers. Markets are increasingly demanding concerning the residues of plant protection products (PPP’s). Import of horticultural products is regularly rejected because of high residue levels. ...
According to Hagai Yasuor of the Gilat Research Center in Negev, nitrogen deficiency has been studied on the majority of horticultural crops, but the effects of an oversupply of nitrogen are not as widely understood. ...
The area under protected cultivation was 0.23% of the total area under the horticulture cultivation in India in FY'2012.The major crops grown in the protected cultivation are tomato, capsicum, cucumber, melons, rose, gerbera, carnation and chrysanthemum. ...
Vegetables such as cowpea in West Africa and the common bean in East Africa are an important source of cash and nutrition. Vegetable and horticultural crops will soon become more important due to increasing urbanisation. ...
The country’s latest crop losses were in May and June 2011 when a dry spell in Pemagatshel, one of Bhutan’s poorest districts in the east, destroyed hundreds of acres of maize. ...
They report their method in the 2010 Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, published by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America. ...
Cotton exports are also forecast up due to higher prices and tighter supplies among competing exporters. The forecast for horticultural exports is raised due to strong exports to Canada of fresh fruits and vegetables along with surging tree nut shipments to China and Hong Kong. ...
Twynam's rural enterprises include cattle and sheep production, dryland and irrigated cropping and horticulture. The family company has been realigning its agricultural enterprises over the past four years to diversify its Australian business operations. As a consequence of the drought, Twynam has been progressively changing its production mix from summer ...