Organic Vegetable Articles & Analysis
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This time, the focus of the traditional Agri-Marketing and Media Day of Hungarian Agriculture Ltd. was on the media consumption and knowledge acquisition habits of young farmers. Agroinform.hu and Corteva organized this yearPREGA AgRobot Show , featuring the latest developments in robotics. ...
The first will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sat., June 30, at Seven Songs Organic Farm, 46544 70th Ave., Kenyon, where farmer Melissa Driscoll grows certified organic herbs, fruits and vegetables, including nine cultivars of garlic, on her seven-acre farm. ...
Once raw cow dung composted by professional compost turner, it can provide lots of benefits to the garden and organic farm, which makes cow manure very popular and useful raw material of organic fertilizer production. As one of the most important source to prepare effective bio/organic fertilizer, the processing method of cow dung ...
This development brings great advantage in weed control on the field, improving crop size and quality. When growing organic vegetables on the field, one of the main tasks in the field is weeding. ...
Healthy soils benefit all producers – managers of large, row crop operations to people with small, organic vegetable gardens. Healthy soils provide financial benefits for farmers, ranchers and gardeners, and environmental benefits that affect everyone. ...
There are structural measures, such as terraces, banks and dams; agronomic measures, such as mulching and increasing organic matter in soil; vegetative measures, such as tree planting and hedging; and management measures, such as grazing timing and change of species compositions. ...
In the production of organic vegetables, nitrogen is important, yet can be quite costly to manage. ...
The Newfoundland and Labrador Horticulture Producers Council is a non-profit industry organization representing fruit, vegetable, Christmas tree, organic, cranberry, greenhouse and landscape producers and processors in the province. ...
The cloud of insecticide that drifted from a neighbor's corn field onto the asparagus on Andrew and Melissa Dunham's central Iowa farm cast a shadow over their organic vegetable business. They say the costs from the incident and resulting loss of organic certification on their asparagus patch for three years will reach about $74,000, and they're ...
Even in poor settings, shoppers say they are willing to pay more for organically grown vegetables, a study in West Africa has found. Researchers from Benin and the United Kingdom surveyed 100 people shopping for cabbages and tomatoes in Benin and Ghana about their ideas on vegetable quality, their awareness of the use of synthetic pesticides, ...
By using greenhouses and combining organic farming with vertical growing methods, they drastically reduce the need for pesticides and herbicides, reduce fertilizer use by 80%, and also save 85% of the water. ...
We moved the farm back into the city and urban areas using vertical Hydro-Organic growing systems. This is a fancy way of saying we use controlled growing in living soil. We will build these farms in the center of each community with direct sales to the people The bottom line is we can offer fresh, locally grown vine ripened organic vegetables ...
Converted Organics Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire TerraSphere Systems, LLC on July 6, 2010. This acquisition was approved by Converted Organics' Shareholders on September 16, 2010 and closed on November 12, 2010. ...
The stage of plant development when exposed to a pesticide has an important impact on what plant organs are injured. Vegetation may or may not display symptoms of injury when reproductive organs are severely damaged. ...
The Soil Association has announced the appointment of Rob Haward, operations director at Riverford Organic Vegetables, as grower representative on its standards board, following an open recruitment process. ...