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The new stick boom geometry delivers the same high level of boom envelope performance, but with a narrower design to help operators minimize damage to harvested trees. "Avoiding unnecessary damage to harvested trees while operating out in the field has always been a major concern for the industry. When tree ...
Surveyed growers said, on average, 90 percent of citrus acreage and 80 percent of trees in their operations had been infected, on average, in any given operation in Florida. ...
Citrus greening bacterium first enters the tree via the psyllid, which sucks on leaf sap and leaves behind greening bacteria. The bacteria then move through the tree via the phloem – the veins of the tree. The disease starves the tree of nutrients, damages its roots and the tree produces ...
Florida has nearly 70 million citrus trees on more than 531,500 acres. Now imagine trying to figure out what pesticide to spray on each of those trees to keep them safe from citrus greening. ...
These methods were developed for traditional orchards with large, widely spaced trees." In contrast, the authors said, new cider apple acreage in the US is planted with higher-density orchards on semidwarfing rootstocks, and apples are harvested by hand. ...
Sometimes called smog, ozone is a highly irritating gas found to shorten lives and worsen asthma and other lung diseases. It also is highly damaging to trees and plants, posing a major threat to the nation’s forests. ...
Careful choice of tree species and sites could transform plantations into refuges for woodland plant diversity, new research from Ireland suggests. ...
Resistance of the trees to the disease was evaluated by observing the damage to the crown and stem, attributed to infection by C. fraxinea. No trees were entirely disease free, but some individual trees were more resistant than others, exhibiting much less damage and higher growth. ...
DuPont de Nemours (DuPont) directing the company to immediately halt the sale, use or distribution of Imprelis, an herbicide marketed to control weeds that has been reported to be harming a large number of trees, including Norway spruce and white pine. The order, issued under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), requires DuPont to stop ...
These pests can kill trees in neighborhoods and parks, choke farmland, and devastate forests. Remarkably, new non-native plant pest introductions are detected at a rate of one every twelve days, adding to the burden of the more than 450 damaging tree pests already established in the United States. "There are many tree species in ...
During heat waves, this can lead to tree damage and even death. However, heat waves may also increase the resilience of a species as a whole by preserving only those trees which are genetically best adapted to dry conditions. In 2003, a heat wave in Europe caused droughts that damaged and killed many Douglas-fir ...