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https://www.cnsdgf.com/Solar-patterned-glass-id43107587.html | 2023-10-03T08:33:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511055.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003060619-20231003090619-00454.warc.gz | 0.791178 | 392 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__22652098 | en | Views: 0 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-01-06 Origin: Site
Solar patterned glass, also called solar cover glass or solar low-iron patterned glass, is a kind of ultra-clear patterned glass, but with a special surface pattern, it is specially used for greenhouse and solar photovoltaics(PV) modules.
GOFAI Solar patterned glass offers higher transmittance，lower reflection ,higher solar effect for greenhouse and photovoltaic modules.
GOFAI Solar patterned glass features：
(1) The surface pattern is in the shape of prism and pyramid, which increases the internal reflection effect, reduces the directional reflection of the glass, and improves the sunlight transmittance.
(2) After the anti-reflective coated, the transmittance can be better improved and the absorption of sunlight energy can be increased.
(3) After tempered, low spontaneous breakages, efflorescence resistance, hailstones resistance and impact resistance.
Thickness GOFAI GLASS can supply: 3.2mm,4mm,5mm,6mm.
GOFAI GLASS can supply patterns: Nashiji,Mistlite, Solarifier-s, Solarifier-d, etc.
GOFAI GLASS can customize the production according to the pattern designed by the customer.
Package：plywood wooden case
Mainly used in greenhouse and solar photovoltaic(PV) modules.
GOFAI glass, customer-oriented, serves the world. | agronomy |
https://www.condemnedtodebt.org/search/label/economic%20meltdown | 2023-09-22T14:55:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506420.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922134342-20230922164342-00033.warc.gz | 0.958613 | 857 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__155718139 | en | Blow up your t.v.
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden
eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own
If you would like to get a provocative and unconventional take on the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying financial crisis, you should read James Howard Kunstler's refreshing blog, clusterfuck nation. Mr. Kunstler has been predicting an economic meltdown for a long time. And now, by God, his prediction has finally come true.
What we are experiencing is not just a health emergency, and it's not a recession. We are at the beginning of the 21st century's Great Depression, and it is going to last a long time. A lot of industries, a lot of organizations, and a lot of jobs are going to disappear, and many of them are not coming back.
So what should we do? Kunstler recommends planting a spring garden:
If you’re prudent, you can begin at once to organize serious gardening efforts, if you live in a part of the country where that is possible. I’d go heavy on the potatoes, cabbages, winter squashes, and beans, because they’re all keepers over winter. Baby chicks sell at the local ag stores for a few bucks each now and you’ll be very grateful for the eggs. Get a rooster — even though they can be a pain-in-the-ass — and you won’t have to buy any more chicks.I think Kunstler is right. I'm not saying we are in danger of starving to death in the coming months. I feel sure that our supply chains and grocery stores will continue to provide us with food. We may not be able to get Mexican blueberries in February, but we will always be able to get canned beans and Kraft macaroni and cheese--or so I believe. And, to paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, we'll always have baloney.
But planting a garden is a good thing to do. I have maintained a vegetable garden for the last eight years, and it gives me great satisfaction to harvest and eat food I grew myself. As everyone knows, homegrown tomatoes are better than the store-bought varieties. And homegrown broccoli, harvested and cooked on the same day, is a totally different experience from eating frozen broccoli from the grocery store.
Furthermore, by planting a garden, we begin to retrieve essential skills that our grandparents knew. My elders knew when to plant various crops and when to harvest. They knew how to preserve fruit and vegetables through the winter. They knew how to butcher a hog and turn it into smoked hams, bacon, sausages, and lard.
I can't feed my family on what I grow in five raised garden beds. In fact, if I gathered all the food my garden grows over the course of a year, my wife and I would survive for about a week. But I am learning a few things about raising food crops.
For example, I planted a fall garden this year and learned that broccoli can survive a light freeze. I also learned that collard greens are ridiculously easy to grow and taste delicious if seasoned with bacon and a little garlic.
I plant okra in my spring garden. I've learned that okra likes hot weather and grows so fast once it starts producing that I have to pick okra every other day. But I also learned that I don't like okra very much.
In World War II, Americans ripped out their front lawns and planted victory gardens. I am told that at one time, people's individual victory gardens produced more food than all commercial farming combined.
That's comforting to contemplate because things are changing in America, and they are changing fast. We are going to have to be more resilient, more frugal, and more self-reliant. Planting a garden will help us obtain these virtues.
After all, a tomato bush growing behind the garage is a reminder that we are capable of taking care of ourselves. | agronomy |
http://www.terratory.org/terratory-journal-recent/2016/8/4/reuben-wu-mark-frank-shin-do-fu-ji-the-practice-of-no-till-farming | 2019-10-17T07:16:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986672723.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20191017045957-20191017073457-00555.warc.gz | 0.965507 | 1,104 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__150053926 | en | Written by: Mark Frank-Echigo Farm
In Japanese Buddhism, there is the expression shin-do-fu-ji, written with the characters for heart, body, not, and two (心体不二). This means, literally translated, “body and earth are not two.” That is, our human bodies and the land from which we get our food are closely connected. One can also extrapolate from this expression that all living things have a deep connection to the place where they live. Expanding this concept to food and diet we can infer that it is not so much “you are what you eat” as “you are where you eat.” Thus, there is a unique physical and spiritual connection between your body and the land where you live. On our farm, we have put this philosophy into practice by treating the soil as a living thing, it is deserving of respect and care.
On cool summer mornings, knee deep in daikon, I’ve heard the soil speak. I walk an average of four miles a day on our little farm, mostly confined to the 2 acres or so of land where we grow our market crops. I have learned a little of the contours and crannies, the perennial and annual weeds, the insect communities and their respective territories, the places where the chickens naturally stray, the delicately layered balance and imbalance of natural cycles that define any farm.
I have only been here five and a half years and I am still learning how to read the land. Self-admittedly, I still struggle with the homework. We follow Masanobu Fukuoka’s three rules for natural farming; no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no tilling. The first two may seem more explicitly invested in the balance of life and human safety because they remove poisons from the food production equation. However, I have come to realize in my years of walking and working here that the third, no tilling, is perhaps the most important.
When confronted with a new field or garden spot, our shared human impulse is to till, to turn the soil decisively. Somehow, there is an undeniable visceral satisfaction in breaking ground and running my hands through clear luminous loam that says, “Now I can do something, I am ready to farm.” But, after several years of not tilling and leaving machines shut up in the shed, I enjoy spending seasons going over the same unplowed land and the same beds. Yet, with each season I notice that things are never the same. What I have learned through the years and see in the crops, as well as other living populations, is how fertility builds and seeps into the soil from everywhere all at once to create something new. It is powerful concept to know that undisturbed earth can be so alive and fertile; this idea seems to encourage and propel my commitment to this way of farming.
Through reflection, I have come to see myself not as a local farmer but as a soil-based farmer. When we sell produce at the farmers market, what we are really offering is our soil. Not the dirt itself, so much as a mirror image of the ground and the energy of its constituents; this shows up in the flavor, shape, color, size and texture of the vegetables. Furthermore, in growing our own produce year round, I have noticed that our farm has a specific flavor. There is a farm taste that transcends variety or skill; this is the soil speaking. Other vegetables at the local market taste like other farms. However, in many big supermarkets, I have come to notice that there are many vegetables that taste like nowhere. Therefore, it matters not so much that my vegetables were grown in Southwest Missouri; geographically speaking, everywhere is local somewhere. But, that they were grown here, on this small piece of land in a specific way that maximizes character and leaves a specific imprint on the produce that is harvested from this soil; this means everything in farming.
Tracing the details of the soil with my feet, I often make notes. This morning, I happen to notice as I kneel in the wet morning grass that a deer has come into the field. It claims membership to this land as the chickens wander out to the edge of the beans just ahead of a light rain. Admittedly, the soil has become on some days more familiar to me than my own children. Smells and temperatures change throughout the day, water flows throughout the land and some crops grow where others do not. It feels very reassuring to know that my practice of shin-do-fu-ji continues, whether I am in the field or not. What is perplexing about this way of farming is that I have also come to realize that I’m not really a farmer and even less a “steward of the land.” I’m just someone who likes to walk the land and observe the cycles of nature and soil at work. Thus, the only meaningful accomplishment in my short history as a farmer is the relationship I’ve built with the soil; anything I’ve learned starts and ends here.
Sadamichi, Kato (2016) Retrieved from:https://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/proj/genbunronshu/25-1/kato.pdf | agronomy |
http://www.costech.or.tz/?page_id=4068 | 2018-10-22T08:20:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514879.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022071304-20181022092804-00376.warc.gz | 0.926574 | 857 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__139348224 | en | April 9 2015, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) together with regional Initiative Bio-Resources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development Program (Bio innovate) supported by SIDA have organized a round table meeting on policies and regulatory incentive for promoting innovations in the use of bio-pesticides and management of industrial effluents.
Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperative Eng. Raphael Daluti (standing) delivers a speech during a Round table Meeting at COSTECH. He is flanked by COSTECH Acting Director General Dr. Nicholaus Nyange (left) and Dr. Dugushilu Mafunda (right) from the COSTECH Directorate of Innovation, entrepreneurship and Competitiveness.
Officiating that meeting, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food security and Cooperative Eng Raphael Daluti said that Tanzania is aware of the revolutionary advances in biosciences that potentially provide an increasingly powerful engine for innovation from the gamuts of sustainable agricultural production, waste management, and renewable energy production and in the development of a diverse range of novel bio-products.
He said with both short and long shifts in the World demand of agricultural and agro-processing products as a country, Tanzania is not only following the growing tendency towards bio-based innovations as a means of developing productive economy but it is also keen to be a part of the global bio-economy market as a producer of products.
He added, in that regard Tanzania intends to exploit opportunities from biosciences innovation and is committed to ensuring that there are in place supportive policies.
“Tanzania has 76 highly productive R&D institutions that are both public and privately administered and thus I can say with confidence that Government commitment to exploiting biosciences innovations is not just a political statement “He explained.
COSTECH Acting Director General Dr. Nicholaus Nyange (left) speaks COSTECH participation in the Round table Meeting on Policies and Regulatory incentive for promoting innovations in the use of bio-pesticides and management of industrial effluents. Looking on are the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food security and Cooperative Eng. Raphael Daluti (Centre) and Dr. Dugushilu Mafunda COSTECH Director of Innovation, entrepreneurship and Competitiveness.
For his part, COSTECH Acting Director General Dr. Nicholaus Nyange said its Commission which is mandated to coordinate and promote Research in the country, decided to organize that meeting as it wanted to share and discuss findings of the two studies undertaken in the country on the opportunities and challenges in the use of bio-pesticides and management of industrial effluents.
He said the findings from those two studies are of great impact for the society and signify need for Tanzania to holistically address cross cutting issues for sustainable socio-economic development.
“We want to link Science, Technology and Innovation with our daily problems in the society. Findings from these Researchers have scientifically proved that we can use research findings to innovate new models for managing industrial effluents use for increased agricultural production.”Dr. Nyange said adding that there are promising results from different projects conducted among Tanzania industries to reduce waste water by recycling them for agricultural uses.
He further pointed out that the round table meeting on policies and regulatory incentives is very important in Tanzania as many developing countries nowadays establish and implement robust Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies from a critical part of the national development discussions.
“We have invited stakeholders from industries to learn different innovations from local researchers, who have developed bio-pesticides and management of industrial effluents use for increased agricultural production in the country “He said.
The Round table meeting emanates from supported projects under the Bio-Innovate Program from 2010 which aimed to support multi-disciplinary biosciences and product oriented innovations that would be initiated, intensified and disseminated for sustainable utilization, transformation and integration of the region’s bio-resources for economic growth and development. The program has supported nine biosciences innovation and policy consortia projects in six countries of Tanzania, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. | agronomy |
http://hapkapotatoes.com/ | 2020-01-28T10:02:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251778168.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20200128091916-20200128121916-00267.warc.gz | 0.9542 | 136 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__121647817 | en | "A multigenerational farm devoted to growing Irrigated Russet Potatoes for J.R. Simplot of Grand Forks, ND."
Along with growing potatoes on the bountiful soil around Halma, rotational crops such as corn are produced all under center pivot irrigation. The new potato storage facilities allows a comfortable environment for potatoes and a consistent flow of product to J.R. Simplot.
Lance along with his father, Leon, own and operate the farm. They have expanded greatly over the years. They’re dedicated to producing an exceptional crop each year.
This website is created and hosted by Website.com's Site Builder. | agronomy |
https://www.mundukcoffee.com/munduk-foundation/ | 2021-10-28T01:27:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588246.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028003812-20211028033812-00600.warc.gz | 0.929584 | 1,967 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__296005339 | en | YOUR PURCHASE OF MUNDUK COFFEE DIRECTLY HELPS THOSE THAT WORKED THE HARDEST TO BRING IT TO YOU. HOW THIS HAPPENS IS TWOFOLD.
- MUNDUK KEEPS A GREAT PORTION OF THE REVENUES AT ORIGIN
- MUNDUK COFFEE PLOUGHS A PORTION OF HER PROFITS BACK INTO THE MUNDUK FOUNDATION.
Munduk Coffee aims to give forward, rather than to give back, empowering the residents of the Munduk/Gobleg region, where our coffee is sourced.
This results in a stronger local economy and tighter social bonds.
We do this while preserving the delicate environmental balance and revitalizing Bali’s 300 year old coffee industry.
MUNDUK COFFEE ACTIVELY STIMULATES THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND THE PRODUCTION OF HIGHER QUALITY COFFEE
WE PAY MORE: On Munduk Moding Plantation we have four farmers working. They maintain our own coffee trees and in return receive 50% of the harvest. We buy the cherries back from them at the premium prices we offer to other farmers.
IMPROVING QUALITY: The 5% to 10% surplus we pay for coffee we purchase from other farmers in the Gobleg/Munduk region demands a high quality, organic product. This provides strong economic incentives to improve coffee quality.
WE PROVIDE FREE TRAINING FOR FARMERS:
WE CREATE JOBS: The prices paid for hand selected coffee cherries are DOUBLE those paid for strip harvest cherries. Multiple rounds of harvesting are necessary to select the highest quality, fully ripe cherries Munduk buys from other farms in the region. This generates employment for local pickers.
This year Munduk created several new jobs in the region for builders, drivers, coffee processors, roasters and packagers. To ensure our high quality standards, this year we have invested heavily in our facilities. Munduk has built raised bed drying tables and rain sheltering, processing stations and brand new packaging and roasting facilities.
Some of our marketing materials have also been produced in Bali, creating jobs for the local photographers, designers and printers.
The Bali based branch of the Munduk Sales Team is actively pursuing new customers in their local market
MUNDUK’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT
MUNDUK IS ACTIVELY REVITALISING BALI’S 300 YEAR OLD COFFEE INDUSTRY….and sustaining the delicate environmental balance.
From the 1800’s up until the 1980’s, the hill stations of Munduk were recognized as the most productive areas on Bali to grow coffee.
In the 1990’s coffee prices fell dramatically. Many farmers abandoned coffee farming, switching to other cash crops that brought higher revenues. Soil erosion and falling water tables followed suit.
RESTORING THE NEGLECTED MUNDUK MODING PLANTATION
Prior to 2007, Munduk Moding Plantation was a poorly maintained coffee plantation which was not structurally managed.
A dedicated team cleared old growth and planted shadow trees. Hunting was banished and the indigenous birds and beasts returned. Arabica coffee seedlings were planted in the rich and re vitalised volcanic soil, giving birth to Munduk Moding Plantation as it is today. FOTO MMP TODAY
WORKING WITH THE MUNDUK/GOBLEG FARMING COMMUNITY TO RAISE COFFEE QUALITY
Over the last 10 years we have established a strong connection with the local community which is based on mutual respect and trust. The key idea from the start was to restore the coffee farming culture by working closely with our neighbouring coffee farmers.
Our purchasing strategy has generated quite a competition among the farmers. Our exacting quality standards combined with the higher price we pay, has stimulated other farmers to grow higher quality coffee.
KEEPING THE REVENUES AT ORIGIN
MUNDUK works to cut out some of the links in the production chain which traditionally collect a very large part of the revenue at the expense of the farmer. By shifting many of the production processes to origin, we generate jobs and income for the hardest working link in the production chain: the Balinese.
While coffee farming requires patience – trees only start bearing fruit after 4 years we believe that – helped by rising international prices on world markets and the active support of the Indonesian and Balinese authorities, we can succeed with our partners.
HOW COFFEE FARMING HAS A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
A fertile ecosystem is created and maintained through sustainable coffee farming. The shadow trees, which are needed to protect the coffee trees, are all small reservoirs of water. Moreover they stabilise the fertile top layer of soil, even during the rainy season. The tree canopy attracts insects and bird life.
Organic coffee farming therefore does not exhaust the land and – contrary to cash crops such as oranges, flowers or even clove – can in principle be maintained for many decades in the same place.
The results of these economic incentives are already evident. This year’s green bean harvest has radically improved in quality. Beyond this, more farmer’s are reverting to producing coffee, rather than products with a negative effect on the environment.
The income we generate from selling our high quality coffees is invested directly in the region, via our Foundation.
Management of production Chain
Local community to (re-)introduce high quality coffee cultivation at scale by ensuring that large parts of the agricultural land in the region are used for growing high quality and sustainable coffees. These coffees command much higher prices which will support the farmers in the region economically and facilitate community development. The cultivation of organic coffees with the accompanying shadow trees and the absence of the use of pesticides will also contribute to the environmental protection and in some cases regeneration of the land in the area.
The focus on finding a balance between economic, social and environmental factors is very close to the Balinese Hindu concept of Tri Hita Karana which holds that man should seek a balance between his relation to God, the community and nature.
It is also the philosophy underpinning Munduk Moding Plantation at which BPMC is located.
MCC/BPMC aim to function as catalysts for this process by providing the necessary support and incentives. We do this by fully integrating the production chain – from bean to cup – and returning the savings this generates in large part to farmers and the local population in a way that incentivices them to become part of this process.
In essence, we will source, process, roast, transport and distributie our coffees ourselves as much as possible to ensure optimal quality control and alignment with our vision at all stages of the production process.
Our customers will pay “standard” prices for high quality coffees and we aim to ensure that we are competitive on price and quality alone. In other words, our social and environmental activities are a strong complementary reason to purchase our products but are not intended as a substitute for high basic quality standards and a fair price.
In addition to the support for the farmers which we believe will be the main driver for change in the longer run, we also support the local community in a variety of manners through our MMP/BPMC Foundation. The objective here is to demonstrate a concrete and direct positive impact on the local community so as to convinced them of the vision underpinning our project. This support given by the foundation presently consists of the following activities:
The provision of scholarships to poor but bright students to finish high school and to continue College Education. Where possible we will priviliged girls who are still somewhat disadvantaged compared to their brothers.
Support for environmental activities and environmental education/training: this is also supported by MMP’s Green Team which works with the village to remove plastic dumps and hazardous waste; the Foundation has provided wastebins to the village allowing waste to be sorted and therefore more safely processed;
We provide access to our dedicated well to the local school which has no running water and provide the school more generally with financial support;
We provide free English language classes to local youth given the poor standard of instruction in Public schools;
The Foundation supports the local arts and culture. We fund a Balinese dance Group for young girls, support a martial arts group for boys and subsidies various cultural activities such as the Ogoh Ogoh parades held around Nyepi (silence) day;
The Foundation funds various health checks of staff and members of the Community to ensure prevention of common diseases such
General support for activities undertaken by the local administration for the improvement of the conditions of the villagers such as, for example, the construction of a playground
The Foundation is considering providing a small Public Library with a stock of good quality books and two internet connected computers for local children.
The precise support is closely co-ordinated with the local community, notably the ADAT (the customary village hierarchy) and the Head of the village. We believe that they are best placed to identify pressing needs and advise us on how we can best support the local community. This is also essential to avoid jealousies and controversies with our neighbours.
Finally, the Foundation will be publishing an annual report detailing its activities which will be available to all customers of BPMC/MC through our website. | agronomy |
https://www.berlinnaturalbakery.com/collections/berlin-natural-bakery-only/products/biblical-herb-breadsticks | 2022-08-09T08:40:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00150.warc.gz | 0.921547 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__59435960 | en | We start by sprouting the grains, Whole Grain Spelt, lentils, soybeans, barley and millet and stone grind them into flour on site at our bakery. Then we add the perfect combination of herbs and spices. We par bake them, so you can eat them as they are or you can enjoy them fresh from your oven every single time. Sprouted grains increase the nutritional value and as well as aid in the ease of digestibility. Brush them with butter or olive oil and sprinkle with garlic salt. They're so good...it's like having mama Lofreso herself in your kitchen.
Ingredients: Organic Sprouted Whole Grain Spelt flour, Filtered Water, Organic Honey, yeast, sea salt, sprouted barley, millet, sprouted lentils, sprouted soybeans, dried marjoram, dried basil, dried oregano, garlic powder.
No Preservatives - Freeze Upon Arrival | agronomy |
https://noventabotticino.it/en/ | 2024-02-22T07:11:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473735.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222061937-20240222091937-00636.warc.gz | 0.93888 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__102873997 | en | Naturally distinguished wines
Noventa wines are the perfect synthesis of our land, deriving character from their terrain to make them unusual, unique and popular all over the world.
We have been producing superior quality wines for more than forty years, by understanding and tending to the needs of the vines and terrain with all the care of history’s master growers.
Cellar tour with wine tasting: book a visit and discover how Noventa Botticino wines are born, how they grow and how they age.
Gobbio Noventa 2017 wins Three Glasses Award
Our Gobbio wins the Gambero Rosso “Three Glasses” rating once again. The Gambero Rosso Italian Wines guide awards this accolade of prestige to the greatest Italian wines. It put Noventa Botticino at the summit of Italian wine production.
Gobbio 2017 is an organic wine and one of our most distinctive: it is grown on the only hill at Botticino where the soil is white, and where fossils are even sometimes found. | agronomy |
https://www.mploystaff.com/job/production-operatives-pickers-packers-5/ | 2019-12-08T10:15:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540508599.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20191208095535-20191208123535-00345.warc.gz | 0.907368 | 128 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__170173518 | en | Posted: 12th November 2019
Salary: £8.21 - £10.26 per hour
We are currently recruiting for Pickers and Packers to work locally in a food production environment.
You should be able to stand for the shift, some light lifting and machine operating may be involved.
You will be working either 6am-2pm on the production line, 7am-3pm or 3pm-10pm in the packing room
Working days Monday – Friday 37.5 hrs p/wk
Long term work with the potential of a permanent contract.
Contact us for more details or send your CV! | agronomy |
https://www.symbioticplm.com/fyi | 2024-03-03T01:22:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00797.warc.gz | 0.942835 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__199386640 | en | Cool things to know
Among conservationists, lawn care matters because certain techniques can cancel out some of greenery's environmental benefits. Among other things, turfgrass helps captures carbon and other pollutants.
For lawns that receive low-level care, the average carbon sequestration rate is lower than those maintained by "lawn care service or apply fertilizer multiple times a year," the industry's idea of best management practices. In return, a healthy and established turf stance will aid in controlling water runoff as it acts as a filter preventing contaminates from leaching into our precious ground water. | agronomy |
https://www.zenopelletmachine.com/product/hammer-mill-grinder-machine/ | 2022-05-16T04:33:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662509990.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516041337-20220516071337-00490.warc.gz | 0.853442 | 1,099 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__122055000 | en | ZNSP series hammer mill grinder machine is universal type product with stable performance.It is widely used in medium and large scale feed production line , chemical and biological industry for raw material grinding, such as corn, sorghum,rice,soybean, wheat, grain grinding, especially suitable for the baby pig, fish feed,poultry and livestock feed production.Double attack technology enhances its crushing effect;Advanced feeding and discharging devices make the production more convenient; Reasonable base design steady its whole body; Components welded with international standard steel plates improve its mechanical strength and lengthen its lifetime.The special water-drop design of feed hammer mill can ensure a larger space for grinding chamber and improves working efficiency by 40%.
Application of Hammer Mill Grinder Machine
1.Animal husbandry. Hammer mill grinder machine can be used as a pretreatment tool for the production of animal bedding and feeding stuff. It can crusher series feed raw materials like dry yam, peanut, rice and other plants, husks, maize, wheat, beans of all grain with large capacity.
2.Agricultural industry. Industrial feed grinding machine can be used for the production of fertilizer, pellet fuels etc.Nowadays pellet fuels are now widely applied in many factories. The raw materials need to be crushed before pellet because wood pellet mill requires its feedstock to be less than 6mm. Therefore, before further processing, hammer mill grinder machine is necessary equipment.
3.Recycle industrial. Recycling reduces the costs you would otherwise incur disposing of unused materials and byproducts. It can be widely used in crushing all kinds of straws,cotton straws,wood, weed, PVC foam board,rubber, etc.
Features of Industrial Feed Grinding Machine
1.Hammer mill grinder machine is used to both of coarse grinding and fine grinding.Which is applicable in large and medium scale feed factory, alcohol factory, feedstuff factory, bio energy factory etc.
2.The crushing room is designed as water drop figure. With adjustable hammer screen space and optimized arrange of hammer pieces, it can fully to meet the coarse and fire crushing requirements.
3.It adopted speed governing feeder, feeder with belt transport or self scavenging impeller feeder.
4.Tested by the high precision balancing machine, the hammer mill won’t move a bit when it run, which reduces
noise and prolongs motor bearing’s life.
5.The feed grinding machine adopting international advanced technology, Improvement on structure and the chosen material of wear-resistance hammer, increasing crushing efficiency 20%.the output can be increased by 25%.
6. The bottom of crushing chamber is fitted with U-shape double grinding structure, further improving the capacity with evener particle size.
Capacity of Hammer Mill Grinder Machine
The capacity of feed grinder machine depends upon several factors.
◆ Raw material variety influences the performance of this machine to a greater degree than any other factors.Hammer mill working should be the case:all of the energy consumed in the crushing chamber is delivered by free-swinging hammers, and it is to be expected that there would be a considerable difference in the effect of these impact blows upon materials of varying physical structure.
◆ Final size of raw materials affects capacity. For example, suppose we were operating a medium-size hammer mill on corn, turning out a 40 mesh product,the output will be much larger than 60 mesh powder.
◆Higher speeds will of course produce better shattering effect to take care of raw materials, but there are definite limits .Thus, in any given machine, the number of rows of hammers used will affect capacity.
Technical Parameters Of Hammer Mill Grinder Machine
|Width of Grinding Chamber | agronomy |
https://waratahseeds.com.au/ | 2024-04-12T23:59:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00460.warc.gz | 0.876796 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__71418221 | en | Our Seed Varieties
Waratah Seed Company Ltd. is the largest farmer-owned seed company supplying the Australian grains industry.
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Waratah aims to supply Australian grain growers with a diverse range of varieties suited to their individual needs and environments.
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If you have any inquiries about our seed varieties or availability please phone or email the Waratah Seeds office.
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Waratah Seeds is proud to present a series of technical guidelines aimed to assist triticale producers and end users. | agronomy |
https://reachgenetics.com/ | 2023-03-25T16:19:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945368.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325161021-20230325191021-00287.warc.gz | 0.92701 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__123672582 | en | We are currently targeting Hemp companies and certified organic real estate property, strategically positioning ourselves across the country. While we intend to revolutionize the Hemp industry through plant breeding and genetics, our expansion of our research labs and genetic scientists will enable onboarding of hundreds of distributors of popular cultivars. Specialty CBD oils along with branded Hemp retail products empower a marketplace with unlimited choice. There is also plenty of opportunity to expand into multiple markets and even develop industry-wide brands.
Regenerative Environmental Applications to Cultivate Hemp.
REACH Genetics, Inc. is driven far beyond the bottom-line, it’s the goal to provide products of the highest quality while contributing to the sustainability of the communities with the privilege of serving. REACH’s management does not import mystery plants or buy seeds from unreliable sources. The Company is founded on the principal of organically grown hemp that shows promise for so many. REACH’s own proprietary seed bank allows oversights on every plant, on every farm, from seed to harvest and beyond. REACH Genetics, Inc.’s plants have been developed to have a superior phytochemical profile known anywhere in the hemp industry with the purpose of creating healthy supplements and environments. | agronomy |
https://www.hia.sg/the-cow-cycle | 2020-09-22T21:24:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00450.warc.gz | 0.966171 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__185335333 | en | The Cow Cycle
Sponsoring a cow does not just help one family. It reproduces and will be able to help many more. They are able to help with agricultural work and can be sold as meat.
Plus, they are really cute.
A project with exponential benefits
According to official statistics, there are still approximately 30,460,000 people living under the poverty line of USD 250 (RMB 2300) in the year 2017.
Amidst the rapidly developing economy of China, we must always keep in mind that not everyone is reaping the benefits of a booming economy.
In the rural countryside, there are still people who are living in dilapidated houses, eating the plainest of meals, living a tedious and bitter life.
These people are constantly struggling to make ends meet. To them, success in life is but a distant dream.
八福基金会 ("Ba Fu Foundation"), an overseas partner of Hope Initiative Alliance, is organising the cow cycle project with the key focus of assisting rural villagers overcome the grasp of poverty.
Cows are useful to aid farmers in agriculture. They can also be raised and sold as meat. Within one and a half years, these cows will also be able to give birth to 3-4 other cows.
By sponsoring a cow, you will be able to lift an entire village out of poverty.
We welcome all to join Ba Fu in our work to lift rural villages out of poverty. | agronomy |
https://www.hughsnews.com/newsletter-posts/archives/07-2017 | 2021-01-22T03:58:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703529080.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210122020254-20210122050254-00529.warc.gz | 0.980377 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__162397081 | en | He owns a track of land which I suppose is about 20 acres adjoining our acre of land at the back of our property on the east where he grows fescue grass for harvesting in bales of hay. He fertilizes the grass with chicken liter from the chickens he raises for the chicken processing company. It is high in nitrogen and smells to the high heavens.
He informed me that he wanted me to pray for him since he will have to make a considerable investment in new equipment to bale his hay. For a number of years he has been baling hey with large round rolls. Now, they will have to go back to baling square bales.
I asked him why this is happening. He said the FDA (Federal Department of Agriculture) has issued an order that they can no longer use round rolls because the cows are not getting a square meal. | agronomy |
http://www.aurelimario.com/en/cetriolo/liquid | 2017-04-27T22:38:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122629.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00356-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.917077 | 326 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__37701231 | en | Cucumber is a member of the Cucurbitaceous family, like muskmelon, squash and pumpkin. The plant is a creeping vine which bears cylindrical edible fruit when ripe. It is an excellent source of potassium, vitamin C and folic acid (only if it is unpeeled).
Single strength Juices (Not From Concentrates) are obtained by selecting raw materials from own italian crops, using only vegetables with right nutritional values to magnify organoleptic features (flavour, colour and smell) as well as nutritional and chemical ones, like vitaminic values, sugar degrees (brix), pH and acidity levels. Juices are natural or pH-laced by using lemon juice; productions varieties are conventional (obtained from controlled crops), bio or baby-food productions.
Purees are natural products obtained from simply milling fresh vegetables by a slow and gradual production process which does not use extraneous catalyzing substances, to preserve naturalness and taste and to obtain a better consistency of the products.
Concentrated juices are produced by an evaporating process obtained with modern as well as sophisticated technologies , to preserve organoleptic and nutritional caracteristics of fresh product, using different concentration levels depending from each vegetable: from 42┬░ bx, 65┬░ bx to max. 70┬░ bx for carrots. Concentrates are natural-pH products (65┬░ bx and 70┬░ bx, in relation with vegetables type) or pH-laced by using lemon juice to microbiologically stabilize them. | agronomy |
https://thesussexkitchen.com/blogs/blog/the-sussex-kitchens-seasonal-organic-flavours | 2023-12-05T21:18:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00412.warc.gz | 0.915046 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__184429688 | en | Brambletye Fruit Farm and Orchard Eggs - The Sussex Kitchen's seasonal organic flavours are partly made up of fruit, veg, and incredible Orchard eggs which come from Brambletye Biodynamic fruit farm.
A clutch of fields were originally bought by Stein Leenders ten years ago. Stein was the first of five Biodynamic farmers who eventually came together to combine their knowledge and passion for naturally sustainable agriculture into developing a 40-acre biodynamic farm of their own in the wonderful High Weald of Sussex.
Biodynamic farming involves a unique approach to organic agriculture, with the aim of naturally restoring health and vitality to the soil through the rotation of crops, and grazing animals where they naturally fertilize the land.
The Orchard chickens are a part of the whole rotation process as they graze freely beneath the fruit trees and in amongst the soft fruit bushes & canes, whilst organically fertilizing the soil, they have the best of diets to produce our fabulous Organic Orchard Farm Eggs.
Orchard Farm organic eggs, scrambled, on freshly buttered sourdough toast - to die for!
Here at The Sussex Kitchen we make the most of each season when we buy produce from Brambletye Biodynamic Farm. From the onset of organic crunchy butterhead, red oakleaf lettuces, and peppery radishes to all types of organic juicy green beans, delicious courgettes, carrot, nutritious beetroot, kale, and potatoes. The excitement of waiting for the new varieties of veg and amazing soft fruit, keep us on our toes!
Then we reach the autumn when the whole gamut of tasty root crops and indigenous fruits arrive; several varieties of sweet, sharp, crunchy apples, succulent pears, the juiciest plums, and amazing red gooseberries - give us every excuse to dream up our fabulous fruit tarts and sorbets. We love to keep the surprises coming so please keep a lookout for new varieties and creations to add to your home delivery box. | agronomy |
https://hemportugal.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/the-challenge-of-creating-a-domestic-hemp-fiber-industry/ | 2018-03-19T14:16:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646952.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319140246-20180319160246-00001.warc.gz | 0.967165 | 1,143 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__1481035 | en | The Challenge of Creating a Domestic Hemp Fiber Industry
June 26, 2015
by Summer Star Haeske, EnviroTextiles
There is much to the reasoning as to why there is not and will not be hemp fabric made from US hemp in the US for a long time from now. To give you the basics, the US does not have the processing needed for hemp’s natural fiber, the hemp fiber cannot run on the cotton or woolen systems. Then when you look at the hemp, we are going to have to have hundreds of farmers growing the “right” variety of fiber hemp crop to have enough fiber to even try to then justify the 4-5 facilities needed to process and produce the fabrics.
For example, even with the right kind of fiber hemp, when you look at the hemp plant, 80% of it is stalk, well within the stalk only the outter ribbon contains the fiber, so we are now down to approx 8-10% fiber, then when grading out the fiber we are left with approx 4-6% that is textile grade fiber, so in the end we have a 4-6% of the plant material yield. Then it would take approx 150-250 million dollars to build the 4-5 facilities needed to have state of the art natural fiber processing.
Not only is our nation is the early stages and cannot federally grow any more then a “research crop” for 10 acres or less but the feasibility for our nation or any investor is a giant NO GO for hemp fabrics. Now I can can you that I especially would love to have our fabrics being made in the US, but because of all the above issues to do so it does not make any sense nor would it be a good decision for anyone or our nation to focus on this and think it would get a hemp industry off the ground for the US.
Instead the US has many other opportunities for hemp. Also, when you look at the global positioning of hemp today, and keep in mind I am referring to countries that are mass producing and have industrialized their hemp markets, China is known for textiles, always has and always will be, Canada has put a place on the map for the seed oil for food and body care, northern Europe is leading the way for hemp building, Australia has been working toward plastics and composites and the US can come in with other market needs and components to only fill a demand for even larger and nastier products that desperately need this alternative, but also give our farmers the higher values and justifies them even growing hemp and gives us a foundation to fill global request for these products and get the US back on the global exchange.
I often end by saying: “Hemp for our farmers, Hemp for our workers, Hemp for healthy products for us and Hemp for the world exchange”. Because that is what makes sense and is possible and can create a truly sustainable future for all. One day there will be some very limited hemp fabrics produced here when we have some fiber that can be mechanically processed, when this does happen they will be very high price point, they will be limited to how much will be available and they will only be heavy weight fabrics, no fine yarns will be achieved this way.
It is also very important for everyone to understand that if you go out there asking or demanding hemp fabric made in the US right now, you will be the requesting party that will have the big bad boys come in and buy any hemp to send to synthetic factories and turn our hemp into Viscose! This has already happened in the US and is the only way the US can make a hemp fabric right now……! (unless you want to hand process, hand spin and hand loom these heavy weights yourself; there is no other way.)
We cannot allow this to happen and it is the complete opposite of what we are trying to achieve on top of the fact that we unfortunately in the US do not have labeling laws to even tell you. They have and will make hemp Viscose in the US and call it hemp fabric and never have to tell you it is Viscose. It is going to be up to consumers to know how to tell the difference! Imagine that, here were have finally come so far and I now find myself having to educate people on the difference between a true natural fiber and a regenerated and that there is synthetic hemp now! Not fair, but we all knew it was coming….. now to not let it stand. I hope this helps explain everything as to why things are the way they are. I can tell you that the Chinese have been growing and using hemp for over 8,000 years and our facilities in China are impeccable. It is truly heaven on earth. We do not want to find the US trying to compete with nations that are light years and just enough years ahead of us to where we will never compete and the world need more natural fiber no matter what.
We are running out of resources and building materials, plastics and fuel sources are the focus we need to take for the US. We do have more and more clients in Canada and the US bringing in our hemp yarns and weaving here, but then you still have the expense of any other dying, washing etc and again, this is a whole other story….. By supporting the countries and the people that have paved the way, supports hemp and continues giving the momentum we need here to keep moving forward. There is nothing better then offering a hemp product, made in the US from imported hemp to show off how great it is and why we need to keep all moving here for the US. | agronomy |
https://farm.hawthornevalley.org/2023/04/seedling-sale/ | 2023-06-02T16:21:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648695.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602140602-20230602170602-00115.warc.gz | 0.870306 | 296 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__299964698 | en | The Farm will be holding a special Seedling Sale featuring a wide variety of organic, Biodynamic plant starts on two Saturdays in May:
- Saturday, May 6 (we will have a table at the school’s May Day Celebration), 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
- Saturday, May 13, on the Farm at the CSA pick-up sige, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
The list of available starts includes: herbs including cilantro, dill, oregano, sage, thyme, chamomile, parsley, and basil, peppers (King Crimson), eggplant (Black Beauty), lettuce (green leaf, red leaf and romaine), spinach, zucchini, summer squash (Yellow Crook Neck), rainbow chard, kale (Toscano, winterbor, mix), cabbage, tomatoes (slicer, paste and cherry), heirloom tomatoes (Cherokee Purple, Striped German, German Johnson, Paul Robeson, Brandy Wine, Valencia), cucumber (slicing and pickle), and watermelon (Black Tail Mountain).
In addition, we will be offering 5-gallon buckets of our Biodynamic compost for $15, and graphic t-shirts (organic cotton, made in the US) designed by Farmer Jess for $25-$30 sliding scale.
Get a jump start on your home garden and help support the farm! | agronomy |
http://nwfuchsiasociety.com/pests.htm | 2024-04-15T08:37:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00139.warc.gz | 0.872064 | 1,349 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__81921162 | en | COMMON PESTS AND DISEASES
in the PNW
You can avoid most
pests and diseases by following some simple procedures:
clean containers with soil that drains well. Repot when soil gets packed hard.
Clean up dead
leaves and other debris. Pests and fungus hide there.
or sprayed, will remove many pests. Water in the morning.
However, there are times
when keeping up is difficult and problems occur.
Outdoors, fuchsias are not
bothered by many pests or diseases. Rain and ventilation help keep them happy.
Rust can appear in spring or mostly in fall when it is unusually wet.
Indoors in greenhouses,
particularly in spring, aphids may line up on stems for the new, tender growth.
White flies can show up any time.
Over summer, root weevils can get into
containers, eat the roots and kill the plant, indoors or out.
Besides the many commercial
products available in gardening centers, there are some homemade recipes that
NWFS members have found to be less expensive, easily kept on hand, and they work
well when things get out of hand:
For aphids, white flies, spider mites, and thrips-
ISOPROPHYL ALCOHOL- 70 % 1
part alcohol- 3 or 4 parts water.
Add a ‘spreader sticker’/wetting
agent.* Spray it on the fuchsia, particularly under the leaves and on the stems.
stickers increase the effectiveness of contact sprays. Examples:
couple drops of Ivory Liquid (soap, not detergent) in your sprayer bottle.
couple drops of vegetable oil like Canola, the lightest and least expensive.
Ivory bath soap can be grated & kept in a jar. 1 T per quart.
Sticky leaves? Cause: aphids and/or white flies. Both insects
secret a fluid that is sticky, "honey dew". Look under the
leaves for aphids, and if you disturb the leaves, and you see
some tiny white things fluttering about, then you have white
can treat both problems with an insecticide or you can mix a solution
of 1 cup of rubbing/isoprophyl alcohol and a cup of Simple Green
in a quart of water and spray directly on the insects. Plus
the Simple Green will wash the sticky substance off of the
leaves. After a few minutes you can spray the plant with clear
water to wash all of the solution off. Two or three treatments
3 days apart should take care of your situation.
For fungus problems like rust, botrytis, gray
3 %, use full strength.
(NOTE: A higher concentration than 3% may harm
Keep it in its brown bottle and add
the sprayer to it.
Spray it on leaves and stems.
Make sure the plants are
well-ventilated around the leaves and in the soil.
Look for babies as well
Get rid of them in whatever manner you prefer.
There are some good 'slug riddance' products on the market.
whatever you choose near moist, shady areas like where slugs can get
under wood, leaves...
For yellow leaves-
1 T. Epson salts. Dissolve in a
glass of hot water.
Add it to your gallon watering can and water
For cleaning pots, greenhouses, eliminating mold
Bleach/Clorox- 7 % ¼ c per gal. Spray
For root weevil
(aka black vine weevil, rhododendron root weevil,
strawberry root weevil)-
Several products have been tried- coco fiber,
fine mulch, coffee grounds…sticky goo, but the most effective controls, unfortunately NOT
Use as directed.
A watering can with a nozzle with small holes
works as well as spraying.
Apply again in August
Available in gardening centers,
locally and by mail order.
For removing water/mineral marks on
Soap and water.
Vinegar if plant cannot be removed from
For disinfecting tools and containers:
Chlorine bleach is corrosive and
can cause pilling and discoloration on metal. Instead, try alcohol,
Listerine, Lysol, or Pine Sol. Then rinse.
RECOGNIZING PESTS AND DISEASES:
P or D- Symptoms/ Cause
Curled leaves or sticky leaves- you can easily see them on stems with their
long 'beak'/ Not well-ventilated.
Botrytis- Damping off. Young stems
collapse./ Not well-ventilated.
Gray Mold- Fluffy gray mold on plants. /
Spider mites- Leaves get webbed, dappled and stripled with red or bronze areas, and drop. Tiny mites
can be seen under the leaves. / Too dry.
Root weevil - Plants collapse. Small white
grubs are found feeding on roots. Nearby rhodies show notched leaf margins- a warning.
Rust- Orangish, rusty areas
appear, usually under the leaves. /Not well-ventilated;
Slugs - They love moist
greenhouses and tender growth to raise their young.
Look under the pots as
Thrips- Small, narrow-bodied,
yellow, brown or black insects seem to be
smothering the plant. Shoots and flower buds are damaged. / Too warm or too little
water, not common in the PNW.
White Flies- Under the leaves, small white
eggs are laid- leaves become sticky.
When the plant is touched, little, white flies scatter frantically into the air.
Yellow leaves- The plant is lacking magnesium. | agronomy |
https://www.obxtasteofthebeach.com/venue/sanctuary-vineyards/ | 2024-04-23T06:46:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00095.warc.gz | 0.944303 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__51703727 | en | Sanctuary Vineyards is located on a quaint seaside farm where you are likely to see rows of corn competing with Cabernet and migratory snow geese nesting among the Sangiovese. Ten acres of grapes are nestled among hundreds of acres of farmland and wildlife impoundments that we like to call "The Sanctuary." Varieties include: Syrah, Tempranillo, Viognier, Norton and the classic Muscadine.
Our vineyards come alive in the spring, and produce foliage, flowers and most importantly, fruit, as the season progresses. At the peak of ripeness, we pick our grapes by hand. Depending on type of grape and style of wine, we may ferment the wine slowly on the skins, or quickly extract the juice for a fresh and fruity style. Following fermentation, the wines are transferred to oak barrels, where they develop added complexity through years of careful storage. Once bottled, our wines are stored in cold cellars until they find their way to your glass.
Every year is a different story here at Sanctuary – tales of fierce winter snow and nor’easters, starry summer nights and fierce hurricanes, all reminding us of our small but significant place as stewards of this coastal gem. Come be a part of our new wine tradition – it’s a story in the making. | agronomy |
http://forgetmenotfarms.org/variety | 2013-05-25T23:05:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706470784/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121430-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938559 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__171102308 | en | Intense green leaves, amazingly aromatic and flavorful.
Perfect for making bruschetta, garnishing pasta, and floating on soups.
Thyme, like parsley, goes with everything-veal, lamb, beef, poultry, fish, stuffing, stews, soups, sauces, stock, herb butters, flavored vinegars, beans, lentils, vegetables, eggs and rice.
The essential oil is used to treat many ailments and complaints. It has been shown to increase the production of white blood corpuscles in the presence of infections.
Acorn squash is a dark-green, deeply ribbed fruits that turn orange when stored. Moderately sweet, dry, fine-flavored squash.
Acorn squash is most commonly baked, but can also be microwaved, sauteed, and steamed. This squash is not as rich in beta-carotene as other winter squashes, but is a good source of dietary fiber and potassium, as well as smaller amounts of vitamins C and B, magnesium, and manganese. | agronomy |
https://industrialchemicalblog.com/insecticides-still-required-genetically-engineered-corn/ | 2023-01-29T02:37:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499697.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129012420-20230129042420-00250.warc.gz | 0.962621 | 365 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__229224889 | en | Farmers are finding that they are using many more insecticides decades after genetically modified crops came into being. Ironically, the crops were engineered to be resistant to swarms of insects but it appears that nature has adapted and new chemicals are needed. The promises offered by genetically engineered corn ushered in an era of hope that chemicals would not be needed to protect produce from insects. While the figures suggest that crop insecticides decreased substantially through 2010, a resurgence in chemical use is now taking place. One of the biggest problems facing farmers across the corn belt in the US is that of the western corn rootworm.
Farmers are weighing the pros and cons of using insecticides to eradicate pests. The short-term projection for pesticide use is positive but there is a debate about the long-term benefits. Genetically modified corn has been designed to kill the corn rootworm but several types of resistant bugs have emerged – many farmers are using insecticides to eradicate them. Growers across the Midwest have been calling for a dual strategy to control the larvae: soil insecticide and rootworm killing corn need to be implemented side-by-side.
The bugs that are plaguing crops throughout the corn belt have resulted in farmers demanding more soil insecticides than ever before. Several leading insecticide manufacturers such as American Vanguard have reported net income boosts of 56% from 2011 – 2013. Leading insecticide brands such Aztec, 5G and Smart Choice are used on millions of acres of corn. The present concerns about rootworm have helped to boost the demand for pesticides across the US. The pesticide companies reject claims that genetically engineered corn and insecticides will produce resistant bugs. According to Monsanto, resistant rootworms are a rarity. Various measures need to be adopted in tandem with genetically modified crops, such as crop rotation, to avoid resistant bugs from developing. | agronomy |
http://lschuler.cbidaho.com/blog/categoryname_outdoors/ | 2018-07-19T02:15:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590443.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719012155-20180719032155-00596.warc.gz | 0.94248 | 478 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__124658979 | en | Container Gardening Upgrades for a Fresh Spring
While prepping for gardening this spring, go through some of your old pots and containers.
Guest post by Linda Lee Ruzicka
If you’re a gardener, you most likely have some old pots and containers in your garden shed or even your garage. And you probably didn’t get rid of them because you figured you might have a use for them eventually. While prepping for this spring, instead of buying replacements pots and containers, go ... read more
How to Remove Weeds
One of the things that can mar the beauty of a lawn is weeds. They spread across a lawn and dig their roots down into the soil. So, you need to know how to identify and then learn how to remove weeds that are taking over your lawn.
Guest post by Emily Higgins
One of the things that can mar the beauty of a lawn is weeds. They spread across a lawn and dig their roots down into the soil. So, you need to identify them and learn how to remove weeds that are taking over your lawn.
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Seal coating your driveway is a simple way to fix imperfections, to weatherproof the surface, and to make it look great again. This article will help you to decide whether now is the right time to call a professional to seal your driveway.
Your driveway may have seen better days. Months or years of rain, snow, and driving back and forth can cause numerous imperfections to form on the surface. A simple solution is to have the driveway seal-coated. Sealing a driveway simp... read more
Ditch the Sprinkler with These Water-Efficient Landscaping Ideas
From efficient plants to water-smart landscaping, your lawn can certainly do its part to improve water efficiency.
Ready for a shock? The average US household guzzles down 320 gallons of water a day—that’s about nine full bath tubs’ worth of liquid! And about 30 percent of that gets dumped out straight on the lawn. Conventional water sprinklers are so inefficient that about half of all the water th... read more | agronomy |
https://opolo.com/opolo-harvest-2015-recap/ | 2023-10-04T03:58:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511351.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004020329-20231004050329-00120.warc.gz | 0.973052 | 542 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__236067344 | en | It seems we have been saying the Farmers Credo for the past several vintages. The phrase goes something like this, “Well there is always next year” or “Next year will be better”. Sometimes wine grape growing and winemaking can be a strategic game of perseverance. Well in 2015 Opolo not only persevered but we won the battle with exceptional quality and fell short on yields.
It was a tough battle with bud break occurring earlier than ever which opens the door for possible spring freezes and resulting bud wood damage. January was unseasonably warm with February, March the beginning of April giving us fog laden mornings and cooler than usual temperatures. Once clear of frost potential we moved ahead anticipating the summer months to come. As bloom occurred we began to see the affects of the moist cool months of March and April with pollination taking longer than usual and the flower caps not releasing from the berries. The result was grapes that could not self-pollinate because the male flower parts were “trapped” under the caps. When the berries do not pollinate, they do not develop resulting in what we call “shatter” thereby reducing yields. The degree of shatter was very variety dependent ranging from very little in Merlot and Malbec to devastating in Cabernet Sauvignon and Roussanne.
Uncommon summer monsoonal rains also provided another dimension to the 2015 growing season as Opolo experienced several two inch plus storms providing much needed rainfall only at the worst time possible time in the wine grapes development. As the summer progressed, the degree of shatter became even more evident along with the first signs of cluster weights that appeared to be smaller than normal due to the lingering effects of the California drought and salt build up in the soils.
As harvest kicked into gear the light yields and elevated temperatures resulted in the fruit ripening very rapidly with intense color, thick skins, and wonderful balance. Harvest was over by the beginning of October resulting in the earliest and most rapid harvest on record! In the end, the average yields for Opolo, and across the state, were off by 40%.
Opolo persevered due to the hard work and dedicated vineyard and winery staff who worked countless hours to bring in the harvest. During the last two weeks of August and all of September Opolo was a 24 hour operation. With relentless attention to detail, and no attention to sleep, the Opolo consumer will experience a very, very high quality 2015 vintage. Be sure to taste the 2015 vintage as soon as it becomes available as with anything in life, if it is outstanding, it will be in short supply! | agronomy |
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This is a 1939 Allis Chalmers model B. It was my great Uncle Juniors tractor that I got when he passed away. He used it to plow his garden with. This tractor had been flipped two times that we know of. With the help of friends and family I have been able to take down my frist tractor now and restore it back. The hardest thing was probaly finding the right parts cause there not alot places out there makeing every and anything for older tractors like. So with the help of ebay (how did we ever surive with out it) I tracked down parts in good enough shape to be used to restor it. It took little over a year to find all the correct parts and have enough spare time to restore this tractor but its finally done now. I hope uncle junior would be proud of how his old allis turned out.
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https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=570285 | 2021-07-24T17:55:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150307.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724160723-20210724190723-00583.warc.gz | 0.976555 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__27619602 | en | Hey, mate, how's going? Sheep are healthy?
The sheep are healthy yes, and the sheep and lambs have just come back from their summer pasture in the mountains. So now most of the lambs will go to become food.. Always a little strange, but that's how it is
Atleast they are high qulity as they just have eaten milk, grass and different herbs and berries in the mountains. So almost totally natural
And you, still going strong? | agronomy |
https://smartinvestor.co.ke/3081/11-e-bio-scientists-win-6-million-grant-commercialize-ideas/ | 2023-12-02T18:10:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100448.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202172159-20231202202159-00821.warc.gz | 0.936449 | 610 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__219254339 | en | Eleven research teams from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania have received grants totalling US$ 6 million, to enable them turn their innovative ideas and technologies, based on biological sciences, into viable businesses.
The funding has been provided by the Bioresources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development (BioInnovate Africa) Programme, a regional initiative currently operational in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, with the generous support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
Among the winners of the grants are three innovative technologies and products led by scientists fromMakerere University, Uganda, which include: a technology that will use heat radiation mechanisms to dry and package fruits and vegetables in a manner that preserves natural quality; a proposal to develop agribusinesses by ensuring all-year-round production and processing of insects that are traditionally consumed in Africa, for instance grasshoppers (nsenene) and crickets; an initiative to produce new, conveniently and attractively packaged sorghum and millet products, that can be consumed instantly in various solid forms, or as malted drinks; and strategies to integrate information communication technologies (ICT) in the production and marketing of tissue culture sweetpotato vines to increase yields.
Three projects led by researchers from Tanzania have also been selected. They include University of Dar es Salaam researchers, who will scale-up production and commercialisation of a renewable fertilizer that is fortified with nitrogen from biodegradable waste obtained in urban centres. Their counterparts from the Tanzania Institute of Research and Development have been granted funds to avail across Africa a more efficient material (known technically as a substrate), that will significantly enhance smallholder mushroom cultivation.
Kenya-led initiatives include an innovative industrial processing technology by the University of Nairobi, which greatly improves, through time efficiency, reduction of wastage, and reduced environmental pollution, the dehairing of leather and descaling fish, among other procedures. Maize and finger millet varieties, that are resistant to the obnoxious Striga weed, a major challenge in Kenya and Uganda, developed by Maseno University, will also benefit from the funding.
Two scientists from the International Centre of Insect Phyisology will lead the commercialisation of biopesticides developed from fungi, and to promote strategies and technologies that will enable disinfestation of pests from fruits and vegetables from Africa, thereby unlocking access to lucrative overseas markets.
While these teams are led by scientists from the above mentioned institutions, they involve 51 other institutions (over 50% of them private sector companies) distributed in the five countries as project team members or partners.
The 11 winners were announced during a high-level forum on developing a bioeconomy in eastern Africa, held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 3 and 4 November 2017, through a partnership between the country’s National Council for Science and Technology (NCST); icipe, and the Nairobi headquartered BioInnovate Africa programme. | agronomy |
http://ravenhost.blogspot.com/2011/02/evening-with-joel-salatin.html | 2018-06-23T17:55:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865145.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623171526-20180623191526-00591.warc.gz | 0.982002 | 123 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__37919975 | en | I was fortunate enough to get to hear Joel Salatin speak to about 100 people in Buffalo, NY, about the local food movement. If you're unfamiliar with Salatin, he is an award-winning farmer and engaging speaker and was famously featured in the film, Food Inc.
This evening he was in top form as he talked passionately about the many benefits of organic, local food. Organic food, he declared at one point in response to a question from the audience, could indeed feed the world.
Many thanks to the organization Edible Buffalo for sponsoring the event and Daemen College for providing the venue. | agronomy |
https://www.hongkongforex.hk/2023/02/02/bill-gates-wins-approval-to-buy-huge-swath-of-north-dakota-farmland-9/ | 2023-03-30T05:12:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949097.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330035241-20230330065241-00471.warc.gz | 0.907286 | 1,690 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__215885300 | en | has ѕecured legal approval for thе controveｒsiaⅼ puгchase ߋf thousands of acres of ρrime farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state’s residents.
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https://animalnutrition.imedpub.com/evaluation-of-locallyavailable-agroindustrialbyproducts-as-partial-replacementsto-fishmeal-in-diets-for-nile-tilapiaoreochromis-ni.php?aid=7805 | 2023-05-28T19:30:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644506.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528182446-20230528212446-00418.warc.gz | 0.914751 | 9,377 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__28643245 | en | Published Date: 2015-12-18 Kwasi Adu Obirikorang, Steve Amisah, Nelson Winston Agbo, Daniel Adjei-Boateng, Nathaniel Gyasi Adjei, Peter Vilhelm Skov.
Kwasi Adu Obirikorang, Steve Amisah, Nelson Winston Agbo, Daniel Adjei-Boateng, Nathaniel Gyasi Adjei, Peter Vilhelm Skov.
Kwasi Adu Obirikorang1* Stephen Amisah1 Nelson Winston Agbo1Daniel Adjei-Boateng1 Nathaniel Gyasi Adjei1 and Peter Vilhelm Skov2
1Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
2Technical University of Denmark, DTU Aqua, Section for Aquaculture, The North Sea Research Centre, PO Box 101, DK-9850 Hirtshals, Denmark
Received Date: September 11, 2015 Accepted Date: November 12, 2015 Published: December 18, 2015
Citation: Obirikorang KA, Amisah S, Agbo NW, et al. Evaluation of locally-available agro-industrial byproducts as partial replacements to fishmeal in diets for Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) production in Ghana. J Anim Res Nutr. 2015, 1:2. doi: 10.21767/2572-5459.100002
Copyright: © 2015 Obirikorang KA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Objective: This study assessed the potential of three widely-available local oilseed byproducts, soybean (SBM), copra (CM) and palm kernel meals (PKM) as partial replacements of fishmeal in Nile tilapia (O. niloticus) diets in terms of their digestibility and effects on growth and nutrient utilization.
Methods: Apparent digestibility coefficients (ADCs) were determined using chromic oxide as an inert marker in test diets formulated to contain 30% of each of the test ingredients by weight and 70% of a fishmeal-based reference diet. The 8-week growth trial evaluated the effects of partial replacements of fishmeal by the oilseed byproducts at different dietary inclusions. The soybean meal diets were formulated with the soybean meal contributing 25% (SBM25) and 50% (SBM50) of total dietary protein. Copra and palm kernel meals each contributed 10 (CM10 and PKM10) and 20% (CM20 and PKM20) of total dietary protein in their respective diets. The test diets were compared to a control diet with fishmeal as the sole protein source.
Results: Nutrient digestibilities of the test ingredients were generally significantly higher for the soybean meal than the copra and palm kernel meals. The ADCs of the soybean, copra and palm kernel meals were; protein, 90.57%, 69.36% and 61.12; lipid, 96.14%, 95.64% and 95.85%; fibre, 96.74%, 77.61% and 55.07% and energy, 91.99%, 73.61% and 75.14% respectively. All the dietary treatment groups recorded significant growth at the end of the trials with the fish in the control and SBM25 groups more than tripling their respective mean initial weights. All the other treatment groups more than doubled their mean initial body weights. Daily growth rates ranged from 1.40% day-1 for the PKM20 group to 2.26% day-1 for the control group.
Conclusion: The study has shown that the test ingredients can partially replace fishmeal in Nile tilapia diets without considerably compromising diet digestibility and carcass traits although higher dietary levels of the oilseed byproducts negatively affects growth.
Oilseed byproducts; Fishmeal replacement; Digestibility; Growth; Oreochromis niloticus; Ghana
The inability of Ghana’s fish output from capture fisheries to meet national demand has placed aquaculture in a central position to make up for the supply deficit. Factors such as high cost of commercial pelletised feed have, however, hindered the growth of the aquaculture sector in Ghana, especially among the small and medium-scale operators. It is estimated that feed constitutes between 60 and 70% of the total cost of producing tilapia , and with the average price per kilogram of imported formulated feed in Ghana around US$2.00, the culture of fish solely on commercial fish feeds is not feasible. Most farmers in Ghana thus produce supplementary fish feeds at the farm level usually as one, or a mixture of two or more feed ingredients. According to the estimates of Attipoe et al. , approximately 90% of the fish farmers in Ghana rely on mixtures of agro-industrial by-products such as maize bran, wheat bran, rice bran, groundnut bran, copra cake, soybean and fish meal as fish feeds. These feeds are largely supplementary and unbalanced in essential nutrients usually results in poor fish growth and low productivity.
There is thus an urgent need to develop low-cost but nutritionally balanced diets that can support increased intensive and semiintensive systems using locally available and low-cost plant resources. At the global level, alternative protein sources for fish culture have been studied intensively during the last few decades because of the declining availability and high cost of fish meal [3-5]. A large number of plant products have been evaluated as potential protein sources in the diets for fish including cottonseed meal, sunflower meal and corn meal , soybean meal, cassava leaf meal, sweet potato leaf meal, groundnut cake , pea, horsebean and rapeseed plant protein concentrates , Jatropha kernel meal , cowpea and lupin meal . Despite the abundance of a large number agro-industrial by-product in Ghana, their potential as cheap ingredients for fish feed formulation remains to be fully exploited. Boateng et al. attributed this failure to the lack of information on chemical compositions and nutritive values, improvement methods of the nutritional profile and feeding responses of animals to these agro-industrial byproducts. Some studies have, however, shown that substantial amounts of these low-cost and readily-available feed ingredients can be fed to Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) without negative impacts on growth and feed utilisation. According to Omoregie et al. O. niloticus fingerlings can be fed up to 30% palm kernel meal-based diets. Feeding Nile tilapia fingerlings a diet containing up to 35% palm kernel meal for 120 days had no adverse effects on growth . Similarly, Oliveira et al. [14,15] fed O. niloticus fingerlings a diet containing up to 35% palm kernel meal with no adverse effects on growth or apparent digestibility, and with no pathological effects on viscera or intestinal epithelium.
The high price of fishmeal in Ghana has created a situation which warrants a thorough evaluation and improved use of alternative protein sources, particularly the locally-available plant byproducts in aquafeed formulations at farm and commercial levels to boost fish production especially in small-scale farms. This study thus evaluated the effects of the inclusion of three widelyavailable local agro-industrial byproducts, soybean, copra and palm kernel meals in diets for the Nile tilapia (O. niloticus) on digestibility, growth and nutrient utilization.
The soybean, copra and palm kernel meals used in this study were byproducts from the mechanical extraction of oil. Each ingredient was obtained as a single batch from an oil producing factory in Kumasi, Ghana. The test ingredients as well as all the other ingredients used in the formulation of the experimental diets were finely ground to obtain a homogeneous mixture and facilitate pelletising. The proximate composition of the test ingredients as well as the other major ingredient used in the diet formulations is presented in Table 1 below.
|Palm Kernel Meal||912||178.1||132.4||184.1||33||192.6|
Table 1 Proximate composition (gkg-1 as-fed) and energy (kJ.g-1) of the feed ingredients used for the formulation of the different experimental diets
The digestibility experiment was conducted in an indoor flowthrough system consisting of 20 rectangular transparent glass tank units, each with dimensions of 50 cm × 40 cm × 40 cm and a water-holding capacity of approximately 60 litres. The tanks are connected to a piping system that supplies water continuously through a 2-inch PVC pipe fitted overhead the experimental tanks. Water supply to the tanks was from a 1000-litre header tank through the common PVC inflow pipe. Water temperatures in the header tank and culture tanks ranged between 26 and 28°C during the study. Atmospheric air was supplied by a regenerative blower (Sweetwater S41) through air-supply valves fitted with tubes to each tank to maintain dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration of between 6.00 and 7.00 mgL-1 throughout the experiment. During the trials, pH ranged between 6.8 and 8.00. A light:dark regime of 12 h:12 h was maintained using artificial light from fluorescent tubes. All-male Nile tilapia (mean weight 25.0 ± 1.0 g) were used for the digestibility experiment at a stocking density of 20 individuals per tanks and acclimated for one week prior to the start of the experiment.
The reference diet for the digestibility trial was formulated with the sole dietary protein source being fishmeal (aquaculture grade). The experimental diets were then prepared using 70% of the already formulated reference diet and 30% of each of the test ingredients (soybean, copra and palm kernel meals) as described by Cho et al. and Agbo [16,17]. Chromic oxide (Cr2O3) was used as an indigestible marker in the reference and test diets at a concentration of 0.5%.The diets were pelletized using an electric meat grinder (Sanyo MG-5000K) fitted with a 2 mm die plate and dried in a hot box oven with fan (Gallenkamp CHF097) at 40°C until sufficiently dried. The oven-dried test diets were analysed for their respective proximate compositions as well as their energy contents (Table 2).
|Reference Diet||SBM Diet||CM Diet||PKM Diet|
|Palm Kernel Cake Meal||-||-||-||300|
|Gross Energy (kJg-1)||18.1||18.16||18.97||20.23|
Table 2 Diet formulation (g.kg-1 as fed) and proximate composition (g.kg- 1 dry weight basis) of reference and test diets used for the digestibility trial.
The reference and test diets were administered twice daily at 9:00 h and 16:00 h to their respective tanks. Each feed type was randomly assigned to 3 tanks and fish were fed with fixed rations (5% body weight) each day during the experimental period. Faeces were collected from each tank prior to each feeding event each day by slowly siphoning with flexible rubber tubings with an inside diameter of 0.45 cm into centrifuge tubes. The collected faeces were immediately centrifuged at 3500 rpm (Hettich Universal 16A) for 5 minutes and the supernatant discarded. The wet settled solid faeces were then emptied into labeled plastic bottles and stored at -20°C to retard bacterial decomposition. Faecal collection was continued until it was judged that sufficient sample had been collected for chemical analysis. The collected faecal samples were then later defrosted and oven dried at 60°C, ground and analysed for their proximate composition and gross energy (GE). The apparent digestibilities of the formulated feeds and test ingredients were then determined by comparing the quantity of each nutrient consumed with that left in faeces at the end of the digestive process.
Calculations of the ADCs of the diets and test ingredients
The apparent digestibility coefficients of the nutrients and energy of the test and reference diets were calculated as follows
Where D=% nutrient of diet; F=% nutrient of faeces; Di=% Cr2O3 of diet; Fi=%Cr2O3 of faeces.
The apparent digestibility coefficients of the nutrients in the test ingredients were then calculated as follows:
Where Dref = % nutrient (or kJg-1 gross energy) of reference diet (as fed); Dingr = % nutrient (or kJg-1 gross energy) of test ingredient (as fed).
Culture system and experimental species
The 56-day growth trials were conducted in hapas (1 × 1 × 1.5 m) set in an earthen pond at the fish production facility of the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. This was to test the alternative feed ingredients under conditions that simulate commercial Ghanaian fish culture practices as closely as possible. The hapas were constructed using nylon mosquito netting with mesh openings of about 1.5 × 1.5 mm. The dietary treatments for each of the test ingredients were randomly assigned in triplicates to the hapas. Each hapa contained 20 homogeneous all-male Nile tilapia fingerlings with mean initial body weight of approximately 25 g. The fish were obtained from a commercial hatchery near Kumasi, Ghana for the growth trials and were acclimated for one week prior to the start of the experiment. During the acclimation period, fish were all fed a control diet containing none of the test ingredients.
A control diet was formulated with fishmeal (aquaculture grade) as the sole source of protein and this was replaced at the different inclusion levels with soybean, copra and palm kernel meals. Milled wheat and rice bran served as the carbohydrate source. The diet containing soybean meal was formulated with the soybean meal contributing 25% (SBM25) and 50% (SBM50) of total dietary protein. Copra and palm kernel meals each contributed 10 (CM10 and PKM10) and 20% (CM20 and PKM20) of total dietary protein in their respective diets. In all, 7 isonitrogenous (320 g.kg-1 protein, crude protein), isolipidic (150 g.kg-1 lipid) and isoenergetic (18 KJ.g-1) diets were formulated for the experiment. These levels were based on requirements for Nile tilapia juveniles [17,20,21]. Proportions of all the ingredients used in the formulation of the different diets were computed and balanced using an Excel- Visual Basic Ration Formulator Spreadsheet. All ingredients used in the feed formulation were finely ground and sieved in order to obtain a homogenous mixture. Feeds were produced by thoroughly mixing all the dry ingredients together in a bowl, before adding water until a dough-like consistency was obtained.
Each experimental diet was pelletized and dried the same way as the diets for the digestibility trial. The formulations and proximate compositions of the experimental diets are presented in Table 3.
Table 3 Composition and proportions of reference diet and the different inclusion levels of the three test ingredients (gkg-1 as-fed) used in growth experiment and their proximate compositions (gkg-1 as-fed) and energies (kJ.g-1).
Feeding and sampling
During the trial all groups of fish were hand-fed at the same fixed rate (5% of total bulk weight), twice daily at 9:00 and 16:00 h. Data on weight gains were recorded every week and feeding rates were accordingly adjusted to compensate for growth. All fish were individually weighed at the beginning of the trial to ensure uniformity in the initial weights. For all the other weekly weight measurements, fish were bulked together, weighed to the nearest 0.01 g on an electronic top pan balance. Ten individuals from the initial fish stock and 5 from each of the hapas at the end of the trial were randomly sampled and stored at −20°C for subsequent whole-carcass proximate composition and calculations of hepatosomatic indices. Due to the practical limitations in conducting this trial in an earthen pond, it was not possible to ensure that all the fed experimental diets were ingested or to collect uneaten feed from the experimental hapas. Thus for all calculations dependent on feed intake such as the food conversion and protein efficiency ratios, the amount of feed fed instead of the exact feed consumed/intake was used without adjustments being made for any wastages.
Growth and feed utilization parameters were calculated for the duration of the trial using the following equations:
Specific growth rate:
Feed conversion ratio:
Where Wo and W1 are the initial and final body weights respectively
Protein efficiency ratio:
Dry matter, crude protein, crude lipid, ash and fibre, gross energy contents of all the ingredients, diets, faeces and carcasses were determined following the procedures of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists . Dry matter was determined by the weight loss after a 24-hour drying at 105°C in an oven (Gallenkamp CHF097). The ash content was calculated from the weight loss after incineration of the samples for 6 hours at 550°C in a muffle furnace (Stuart Scientific S1203). The micro-Kjeldahl method (Gerhardt kjeldatherm system) was used for the determination of crude protein whiles crude lipid extraction and determination was done by solvent extraction using Soxhlet extraction. Crude fiber was determined using acid-base hydrolysis. The energy contents were determined using an Adiabatic Autobomb Calorimeter (Parr 6100) with benzoic acid as standard. Chromic oxide content of the test and reference diets as well as the faeces were determined by spectrophotometric methods (Spectronic 21). The differences in the ratios of the parameters of proximate composition and gross energy relative to chromic oxide in the feed and faeces in each treatment were calculated to determine the apparent digestibility.
Data from the trials were expressed as mean ± standard deviation in tables. The data was subjected to one-way ANOVA to test for differences among dietary treatments and Tukey’s Multiple Comparison Test was further applied to evaluate differences between individual means. In all cases, differences were considered significant at p<0.05. All data were first tested for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test . The descriptive statistics were executed using the GraphPad Prism (Version 5) statistical software.
The apparent digestibility coefficients of dry matter, crude protein, crude lipid, crude fibre and gross energy of the diets are shown in Table 4 below. The dry matter digestibility of the test diet containing the SBM (71.94%) did not vary significantly (p>0.05) from that of the reference diet (72.75%). The dry matter digestibility of the diets containing CM and PKM on the other hand were 65.99% and 65.31% respectively and varied significantly (p<0.05) from the dry matter digestibility of the reference and SBM diets. The crude protein digestibility of the reference and test diets were generally high ranging from 89.67% (PKM) to 96.48% (reference diet). There were, however, significant differences (p<0.05) in the crude protein digestibilities among all the diets, except between CM and PKM diets. No significant differences (p>0.05) were found in the lipid digestibility of the diets. There were reduced crude fibre digestibility of the diets containing CM (82.72%) and PKM (74.46%) compared to the reference diet (96.49%) and the diet containing SBM (96.55%). Trends in gross energy digestibility of the diets were similar to the crude protein digestibility with the reference and PKM diets recording the highest and lowest gross energy digestibilities of 95.50% and 89.14% respectively.
|Dry Matter (%)||72.75 ± 0.08a||71.94 ± 0.33a||65.99 ± 0.44c||65.31 ± 0.26c|
|Crude Protein (%)||96.48 ± 0.14a||94.10 ± 0.10b||90.78 ± 1.45c||89.67 ± 0.32c|
|Crude Lipid (%)||96.58 ± 0.16||96.45 ± 0.16||95.83 ± 1.20||95.60 ± 1.12|
|Crude Fibre (%)||96.49 ± 0.47a||96.55 ± 0.17a||82.72 ± 1.10b||74.46 ± 1.72c|
|Gross Energy (%)||95.50 ± 0.15a||92.42 ± 0.22b||90.01 ± 1.19c||89.14 ± 1.28c|
|Dry Matter (%)||-||69.97 ± 1.34a||49.71 ± 0.33b||39.89 ± 0.16c|
|Crude Protein (%)||-||90.57 ± 1.06a||69.35 ± 0.34b||61.12 ± 0.21c|
|Crude Lipid (%)||-||96.14 ± 0.16||95.64 ± 1.15||93.85 ± 1.52|
|Crude Fibre (%)||-||96.74 ± 0.23a||77.06 ± 1.10b||55.07 ± 0.53c|
|Gross Energy (%)||-||91.99 ± 1.02a||73.61 ± 1.12b||75.14 ± 1.37b|
|Crude Protein (gkg-1)||-||315.81||166.25|
|Gross Energy (kJg-1)||-||16.71||15.2|
Table 4 Apparent digestibility coefficients of the diets and test ingredients and digestible protein and energy (dry weight basis) in the test ingredients for Oreochromis niloticus
Test ingredient digestibilities
The apparent digestibility coefficients of dry matter, crude protein, crude lipid, crude fibre and gross energy of the test ingredients are shown in Table 4 below. Generally, nutrient and energy digestibilities were highest in the SBM and there were significant differences (p<0.05) among all three ingredients with the exception of crude lipid digestibility. There were significant variations (p<0.05) among all three test ingredients in terms of dry matter digestibility with SBM recording the highest of 69.97% and PKC recording the lowest of 39.89%. The protein digestibilities of CM (69.35%) and PKC (61.12%) were relatively lower than that of SBM (90.57%) and there were significant differences (p<0.05) among all the test ingredients. Similar to the diets, there were no significant differences (p>0.05) in lipid digestibilities among the 3 test ingredients. Crude fibre digestibility was significantly different among the three test ingredients with PKC recording the lowest digestibility of 55.07% and SBM recording the highest of 96.74%. The crude fibre digestibility of CM was 73.61%. Gross energy digestibilities were similar for CM (73.61%) and PKM (75.14%) but significantly different (p<0.05) from SBM (91.99%).
Growth and feed utilisation
Table 5 details the growth and feed utilisation parameters of the fish groups fed the different experimental diets. Although all the dietary treatments resulted in appreciable fish growth at the end of the trial, the inclusions of the oilseed byproducts as protein sources in the tilapia diets significantly reduced fish growth and feed utilization and efficiency compared to the control diet. Feed intake was also significantly reduced in the fish groups fed the oilseed meal diets compared to the control diet group. At the end of the 8-week period, the control group and the SBM25 groups more than tripled in their respective initial weights. All the other treatment groups recorded mean final weights which were more than double their mean initial body weights. The final mean body weight of the control group (88.60 g) was significantly higher (p<0.05) than the final mean body weights of all the other dietary treatment groups. The PKM20 diet resulted in the lowest mean final body weight of 55.87 g. Daily growth rates were appreciable for all the treatment groups and ranged from 1.40% day-1 for the PKM20 group to 2.26% day-1 for the control group. Protein efficiency ratio was also significantly affected by the inclusion of the plant protein ingredients in the diets. Protein efficiency was lowest for the PKM20-based diet and highest for the control diet. General feed efficiency (FCR) was also significantly affected (p<0.05) by the different diets and ranged from 2.74 to 4.18 for the control and PKM20 diets respectively. Hepatosomatic indices were, however, not significantly affected (p>0.05) by the addition of the plant protein sources to the diets or the varying inclusion levels. In terms of feed cost, a comparison was made between the control and SBM25 since it was the plant-based diets that induced growth performance similar to the fishmeal-based control diet. The addition of soybean meal at 25% inclusion rates reduced the cost of that experimental diet by 20%.
|IBW||25.93 ± 0.38||25.50 ± 0.36||25.47 ± 0.32||25.50 ± 0.10||25.43 ± 0.12||25.00 ± 0.36||25.07 ± 0.32|
|FBW||88.60 ± 1.15a||82.60 ± 0.36b||70.60 ± 0.53c||68.07 ± 0.55d||55.87 ± 0.55e||75.93 ± 0.38f||58.30 ± 0.45g|
|WG||255.44 ± 6.93a||224.23 ± 4.46b||176.56 ± 1.40c||166.93 ± 1.92c||119.67 ± 3.06e||206.04 ± 6.23g||132.59 ± 1.74d|
|SGR||2.26 ± 0.03a||2.00 ± 0.25b||1.82 ± 0.01c||1.76 ± 0.20c||1.40 ± 0.03d||1.98 ± 0.02c||1.50 ± 0.02e|
|SR||100.00 ± 0.00||93.33 ± 5.77||90.00 ± 0.00||86.87 ± 5.77||93.33 ± 5.77||93.33 ± 5.77||93.33 ± 5.77|
|FCR||2.74 ± 0.05a||2.88 ± 0.03ab||3.28 ± 0.07c||3.45 ± 0.02d||4.18 ± 0.05e||2.97 ± 0.01b||3.81 ± 0.01f|
|FI||174.36 ± 0.64a||164.25 ± 1.01b||144.85 ± 2.25c||147.13 ± 2.16ce||127.20 ± 1.38f||150.60 ± 0.61e||126.37 ± 0.57f|
|PER||1.14 ± 0.02a||1.09 ± 0.01ab||0.97 ± 0.02c||0.83 ± 0.01d||0.68 ± 0.01e||1.03 ± 0.06bc||0.82 ± 0.00d|
|HSI||1.00 ± 0.09||0.98 ± 0.19||0.97 ± 0.13||0.99 ± 0.08||1.03 ± 0.04||1.01.09||0.94 ± 0.06|
Table 5 Growth and feed utilization of Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings fed different inclusion levels of soybean meal (SBM), palm kernel cake (PKM) and copra meal diets over a 56-day period.
Whole body proximate composition
The whole body proximate compositions of the fish groups fed the different dietary treatments are outlined in Table 6. With the exception of crude lipid, the whole body proximate composition (expressed on a wet weight basis) were not significantly affected (p>0.05) by additions of the different plant protein ingredients or their inclusion levels. There was a significant effect of the dietary manipulations with the test ingredients on the lipid contents of the fish flesh at the end of the growth trials despite the isolipidic nature of the experimental diets. Lipid retention in the tissues of the fish fed the control and soy-based diets were significantly lower (p<0.05) than that of the fish fed the copra and palm kernel diets at the end of the trial.
|MC||77.01 ± 0.31||76.21 ± 0.29||76.30 ± 0.83||76.45 ± 0.57||75.24 ± 0.58||76.25 ± 0.88||76.05 ± 0.45||76.26 ± 0.96|
|CP||21.34 ± 0.24||23.15 ± 0.91||22.56 ± 0.46||22.84 ± 0.91||22.56 ± 0.51||22.63 ± 0.45||22.58 ± 0.44||22.72 ± 0.45|
|CL||4.25 ± 0.16||4.36 ± 0.17,a||4.43 ± 0.21a||4.66 ± 0.34a||6.47 ± 0.32b||6.69 ± 0.27b||6.28 ± 0.14b||6.16 ± 0.16b|
|Ash||2.69 ± 0.23||2.57 ± 0.20||2.40 ± 0.11||2.53 ± 0.20||2.47 ± 0.08||2.45 ± 0.05||2.50 ± 0.04||2.62 ± 0.03|
|GE||6.01 ± 0.06||6.57 ± 0.08||6.41 ± 0.05||6.28 ± 0.11||6.36 ± 0.08||6.31 ± 0.03||6.31 ± 0.03||6.40 ± 0.09|
Table 6 The whole body proximate composition (% wet weight) and energy of the Nile tilapia (n=3) used for the growth experiment.
The additions of copra and palm kernel meals significantly reduced nutrient dry matter, protein, fibre and energy digestibilities of their respective diets mainly due to their high crude fibre contents. Fibre is usually indigestible to most cichlids mainly because they do not possess the required enzymes for fibre digestion. Anderson et al. recommended that for maximum fish growth, crude fiber levels in tilapia diets should not exceed 5%. The copra and palm kernel meal diets used for the digestibility trials had fibre contents of 9.5 and 11.7% respectively compared to 3.4% for the control diet and 4.7% for the soybean meal diet. The fibre of copra is high in the polymer mannan, which has a low digestibility and often has a laxative effect in animals and increases the rates of gastrointestinal transit of ingested feeds . The presence of a high level of non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) in palm kernel meal impairs the digestibility and utilization of nutrients present in them either by direct encapsulation of the nutrients or by increasing the viscosity of the intestinal content, thereby reducing the rate of hydrolysis and absorption of nutrients . The ADCs of protein (90.57%), lipid (96.14%), fibre (96.74%) and energy (95.50%) recorded for soybean meal in this study compared fairly favourably to the protein (87.40%), lipid (92.10%), fibre (95.20%) and energy (83.70%) ADCs of soybean meal in O. niloticus reported by Köprücü and Özdemir . Agbo also recorded fairly similar nutrients and energy ADCs for soybean meal (dry matter: 77.47%; protein: 94.50%; lipid: 96.84% and energy: 85.99%) for Nile tilapia juveniles. The high protein digestibility of soy recorded in this study is supported by the findings of other works on soy digestibility by the Nile tilapia which include 92.72% , 91.56% , 89.28% and 94.50% . The dry matter digestibility for soybean for this study also compares favourably to the dry matter ADC of 71.04% reported by Pezzato et al. . Boscolo et al. observed that the addition of PKM in the diets of red tilapia resulted in significantly lower dry matter, protein, and lipid digestibilities, similar to what was found in this study. They recorded dry matter, protein and lipid ADCs of 30.3, 80.1 and 87.1% respectively. The digestibleenergy of 13.96 kJg-1 for copra in this study compares favourably with the digestible energy (14.8 kJg-1) reported by Ng and Chong for O. niloticus.
Growth and feed efficiency over the trial period were negatively affected by the addition of the plant ingredients to the diets particularly copra and palm kernel meals. The observed positive relationship between growth depression and increasing dietary inclusion levels of the oilseed byproducts found in this study is consistent with other studies on the inclusions of various oilseed meals in fish diets [17,32-34]. Properties of copra meal that have been reported to affect fish growth are the high fibre contents and the presence of a number of antinutritional factors . Although this study did not identify and quantify the levels of antinutritional factors in the test ingredients it is highly likely they contained substantial levels which depressed fish growth. Condensed tannins present in copra meal at a level of approximately 2.4% have been reported as possibly causing growth depression in tilapia (Sarotherodon mossambicus) and rohu (Labeo rohita) fingerlings at inclusion levels of 20 and 25% respectively [32,36]. Soaking defatted CM in water can significantly reduce tannin levels and increase feed intake responses of fish. The copra meal as well as all the other test ingredients used in this study were not soaked in water or heat-treated prior to their inclusion in the diets used for the digestibility and growth trials. Treating these test ingredients could have improved their nutritional values and reduced the levels of antinutritional factors as have been reported in some nutritional studies. Mukhopadhyay and Ray , for example observed reductions in tannin levels from 2.4 to 0.9% after soaking copra meal in water for 16 hours and fish fed diets containing the pre-soaked copra meal compared favourably with the fishmeal-based control group in terms of growth response, food conversion ratio and protein efficiency ratio. The nutritional potential of soybean meal has also been reported to increase after appropriate treatment to remove or inactivate the antinutritional factors present in them [37,38]. Similar to the findings of Rumsey et al. and Krogdahl et al. [39,40] it was observed at the end of the growth trials that fish fed diets high in SBM generally exhibit progressive impairment of growth and increased feed conversion ratios.
Despite the isonitrogeneous nature of all the diets used in the growth trial, a critical factor which could have affected fish growth is the reduction in protein quality with increasing inclusion levels of the test ingredients. The protein quality of copra meal is poor both in terms of its amino acid balance and digestibility . It is deficient in important essential amino acids such as lysine, methionine, threonine and histidine but high in arginine, which is known to have antagonistic effect on lysine utilization .
Soybean meal although has one of the best amino acid profiles as far as plant aquafeed ingredients are concerned are usually deficient in methionine. All the diets used in the digestibility and growth trials were not supplemented with their respective deficient amino acids. Deficiencies in the essential amino acids profile of a feed can lead to poor utilization of the dietary protein and consequently reduces growth and decreases feed efficiency . The positive effects of amino acid-supplementation of plantbased diets have been highlighted by some studies. The amino acid composition of diets is generally considered to affect the efficiency of protein utilization. Mukhopadhyay , for example reported that fish fingerlings can effectively utilise copra meal supplemented with the inherent lacking amino acids up to 50% replacement of fishmeal protein without significantly reducing growth if the meal is properly fermented. Aside the possible presence of ANFs and the poor amino acid profiles, the low nutrient digestibilities particularly of copra and palm kernel meal is a major factor that might have resulted in the lower fish growth rates and nutrient utilizations in the growth trials. There was a link between the nutrient ADCs of the test ingredients and the growth rates and feed utilisations recorded for their respective diets.
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Almond trees are a 25-year investment almond orchards will produce their first yield five to twelve years after planting.
The central valley in California has a similar climate to the Mediterranean hot summers, and dry cool wet winters are supreme conditions for almond harvesting.
Almond harvest begins in August through to October.
Harvesting machines vigorously shake the almond orchard. The almond outer nutshell protects the almond nuts. Once this process is completed the almond nuts dry out on the ground in the warm, dry natural California sun for 7-10 days.
California is one of five regions where almonds are harvested, an estimated 80% of the world's almonds harvest is exported from California to the rest of the world. The remaining 20% of the almond harvest is exported from Spain, Italy, and Australia.
Almond production in the central valley yielded 370 million pounds of almonds in 1995, nearly 168 million kilograms.
2020 the department of agriculture in the U.S recorded a substantial almond harvest of 3.1 billion pounds and converted to a whopping 1.4 billion kilograms.
In 2020, almond growers increased their land dimensions from 1,958 square kilometres to 2,500 square kilometres.
California almond orchards need roughly 36 inches of water on average yearly. In 2022 statewide precipitation of 3.25 inches was only 25% of average rainfall.
Here lies the problem with the extensive increase in the property size of the almond orchards. How do the almond farmers keep almond crops safe with the everlasting drought and blistering temperatures on the rise?
A morning temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit on a summer morning speeds up the decomposition of dead almond trees. Exposed roots start turning to powder and rot in these extreme heat conditions. Almond farmers have known to let their almond trees die off due to the extreme heat and poor precipitation.
Almond growers also pull dead dried-up almond trees out of the dusty ground and turn them into mulch for gardening.
California is well known for extensive drought conditions, climate change is creating disastrous effects on the almond industry in the U .S. A
The California drought in December 2011 lasted 376 weeks and ended in March 2019.
Almonds farmers are, compelled to drill for water which is a costly production and has real-life threatening side effects for neighbouring communities and farms lands.
Creating uninhabitable living conditions and leaving-surrounding water supplies undrinkable.
Many almond growers are looking for innovative ways to water their almond orchards.
One very successful method is micro-irrigation. Driplines are delivered across the almond orchards and placed at the base of the almond tree directly to the root area. Micro-irrigation can decrease daily water consumption, increase yields and be less labour intensive.
Quoted By The Almond Board of California.
Previously farmers had flooded their fields or used large sprinklers. Results were positive by applying water directly to the roots rather than across the fields. Farmers conserved water and increased yields.
In fact, between the 1990s and 2010s, almond farmers reduced the amount of water used to grow each pound of almonds by 33 per cent.
Today, 85% of California almond farms use micro-irrigation, nearly two times the rate of California farms overall.
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Peasant wheat production in four districts of Tanzania
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Agriculture Sector in Tanzania 1 Introduction Tanzania has substantial potentials to achieve faster and diversified economic growth necessary to raise welfare of her people. But the country is experiencing development problems. The economy is characterised by a large share of agricultural goods, predominance of primary exports, low. Annual Report 2 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION & FARMERS WELFARE Agriculture and Allied sectors witnessed a growth of per cent in , (-) per cent in , per cent in and in at basic prices.
Observations and findings in this study show that Tanzania Agriculture is backward and is characterized by the following factors: i) Dependence on rainfall Smallholder farmers mostly depend on rainfall in the production of crops and production of improved pasture. In case of failure in rainfall, there is no production. “article belittles output of wheat farms. canadian-tanzanian wheat program now averages app tons of wheat annually, enough to produce million loaves of bread a year. total annual production from these wheat farms has doubled since in they produ tons of wheat or 75% of tanzania’s domestic wheat production.
Agricultural extension programmes have been one of the main conduits of addressing rural poverty and food insecurity. This is because, it has the means to transfer technology, support rural adult learning, assist farmers in problem-solving and getting farmers actively involved in the agricultural knowledge and information system .Extension is defined by FAO as; “systems that should. Total wheat area: million acres i) Districts Sahiwal, Khanewal, Vehari, Lodhran, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Layyah, D.G. khan, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnager and Rahimyar khan ii) Cropping pattern Cotton-wheat, Mung-wheat, Sugarcane-wheat, Kharif fodder/maize-wheat iii) Commercial wheat .
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Tanzania, Agricultural Census of Tanzania /71, vol.I, Peasant Farming (DSM, Bureau of Statistics, ) Ta p. Google ScholarAuthor: Deborah Fahy Bryceson. Inwheat hectarage was ; rice, ; and maize, Production in was planned to be hectares for wheat, hectares for rice and hectares for maize. l' Conclusion 16Daily News, 22 February 1TThe United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Agriculture, Price Policy Recommendations for the /79 Cited by: 3.
In this book, I intend to take a different approach—I will conduct an empirical study of the peasant production of opium on a regional level. This book deals with the nitty-gritty details of peasant agriculture, such as the harvest calendar or cropping patterns.
wheat (now produced mainly on state farms). The foregoing is sufficient to explain the priority which has been attached to peasant agricultural production in Tanzania throughout the post-Independence period.
In effect peasant agriculture constitutes the core productive base of the economy. The output performance of peasant agriculture. Level of wheat mechanization can be grouped into three modes of production: large-scale mechanized, small to medium-scale mechanized, and hand-tool production.
Figure 1: Distribution of wheat production in Tanzania () Source: MAFSC and own elaboration. Wheat production and harvested area between and has been fluctuating in similar.
PRA studies have been successfully used in Togo and Tanzania to guide crop breeding programs through pinpointing production challenges and market-and.
This report covers research undertaken in Bunda District, Mara Region of Tanzania, during February The research is part of larger project - Tanzania Agriculture Situation Analysis, problems of peasant cotton production and marketing in Bunda district.
Four villages were selected one in each of four. PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF EXPORT POTENTIAL CROPS: THE CASE OF SESAME IN DIGA DISTRICT, EAST WOLLEGA ZONE OF OROMIA REGIONAL STATE Uganda and Tanzania, for example, smallholder farming accounts for about 75 percent of agricultural production (Salami et.
Women play a major role in agriculture, the world over. About 70% of the agricultural workers, 80% of food producers and 15% of those who process basic food, are women and they also undertake Agriculture is the main part of Tanzania's economy.
As ofTanzania had over 44 million hectares of arable land with only 33 percent of this amount in cultivation. Almost 70 percent of the poor population live in rural areas, and almost all of them are involved in the farming sector. Land is a vital asset in ensuring food security, and among the nine main food crops in Tanzania are maize.
Agricultural marketing and peasant‐state transfers in Tanzania. The Journal of Peasant Studies: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. The objective of the study was to document homemade dishes/beverages from wheat landraces and socio-cultural lifestyles of people related to wheat production in Ambo and Dandi Districts, West Shewa.
A total of four Peasant Associations (PAs) (Awaro, Gosu-Kora, Awash-Bole and Haro-Dule) were purposively selected from the two districts. A questionnaire on wheat seed systems, utilization. Necrosis (MLN) and Fall Army Worm (FAW) persist as challenges for corn production in Tanzania.
Post forecasts wheat production and harvesting area to remain the same in MY / due to predicted below average long rains in the northern highlands wheat growing areas as reported by Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA). Wheat Production Wheat is Tanzania’s fourth most consumed crop after maize, cassava and rice.
More than 90 percent of wheat produced in Tanzania comes from either large-scale commercial farms in the northern highlands (Arusha, Kilimanjaro, and Manyara regions) or small and medium-sized family farms in the southern.
Furthermore, Tanzania is a vast territory with diverse ecological zones capable of complementing each other in terms of variety of output. Virtually every crop known to agriculturalists will grow in one or more of these [ecological] areas.
Wheat, coffee, tea, potatoes, and pyrethrum in the cool mountains. Tanzania wheat (Triticum) refers to common wheat, perhaps the most famous grass-family cereal crop after maize.
Its primary uses are household including making bread and bakery products in milled form. In Tanzania, the plant grows mainly in the grassy Manyara region as well as the north of the country. RUKWA Regional Commissioner (RC), Saidi Magalula has said that actual demands of wheat in the country stand at one million tonnes but farmers produce onlytonnes annually.
Tanzania, located in SE Africa received bi-lateral aid between from Canada, to try to improve its wheat growing and become less reliant on food imports. Help in the form of seeds, expertise, fertilisers and machinery was provided. Food security is a measure of how many people have regular access to sufficient, safe and.
The area cultivated against available arable land varies from per cent in Mufindi to per cent in Ludewa District. Thus, the region has a large area of untapped land that awaits crop. The latest IPC analysis was conducted in 16 of the country’s districts, which recorded substantial crop production shortfalls in In these areas, about people are estimated to be severely food insecure (IPC Phase 3: “Crisis” and Phase 4: “Emergency”) in the period May‑September.
Vegetable Production in Tanzania: A Four Village Case Study in Arumeru District Shelley Feldman, Ruth Minja, Hans Christian Wien Cornell University, - Vegetables - 60 pages.Totally, randomly selected respondents were included in the study from eight purposively selected Peasant Associations (PAs) from four districts.
The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA.Description of cropping systems, climate, and soils in Tanzania (by Dr. J. Makoi). Tanzania (excluding the islands of Zanzibar) has a total land area ofkm 2 includ km 2 of inland water.
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and the stopping of possible rise of water logging and possible creation of permanent dampness in the environment in which materials that are bound to rot may cause infection to the grass. The last of the best benefits that you are bound to enjoy from having a good drainage is the reduction of run off in which watering or heavy rain may flush away all the nutrients and even the essential top soil and leave only a few for the turf to maintain its good health.
Another good thing about applying lawn aeration is that it causes a much better absorption of both air and nutrients. As what happens with the drainage system of your lawn, once you have punched holes on it or even remove the core from the turf, you are, then, enabling the essential nutrients and the air as well to penetrate even more deeper into the turf as well as between the grains of the soil.
Other than the things we cited above concerning the best benefits one can enjoy from lawn aeration, there are other benefits that you still don't know of like who it makes the roots of the grass in your lawn robust. When a lawn is properly aerated, it will actually have a much deeper root system which will require a much lesser regular watering since there will already be a lot higher level of retained moisture deeper into the turf and away from the heat of the sun and humid wind which can sustain the grass during a hot season or during the dry spell so Click for More Info | agronomy |
https://www.evoconsys.com/natures-recycler.html | 2023-12-10T14:33:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00747.warc.gz | 0.971955 | 319 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__7688348 | en | Our biggest ally when dealing with the global food waste crisis
The black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (L.) is a large fly (18-20 mm in length) that is distributed throughout the warm regions of the world. The adults resemble wasps in both their looks and behavior when walking; however, as flies, they have no stinger and are quite docile. Unlike many flies, they are not a nuisance to people and not known to vector any pathogens. The true power of this insect lies in the ability of it's larvae to consume almost any kind of organic waste, including grains, fruits, vegetables, meat, and mixtures of these wastes. The black soldier fly larvae consume these unwanted materials that would otherwise be placed in landfills, converting them to biomass as protein and fat. In as little as two weeks, these larvae eat enough to grow to a size over 15,000 times larger than when they hatched from their eggs!
Once the larvae have digested the food waste, the remaining material is similar to compost, but takes significantly less time to produce (2 weeks vs months!), and serves as an excellent fertilizer for home gardens and agricultural crops.
In addition to producing a great fertilizer, the larvae themselves are useful once they complete development. Their high protein and fat content makes them a nutritious supplement for many farm-raised animals, including fish, poultry, and swine. Larvae of the black soldier fly are currently the only insect approved for use as feed for one group of commercially-raised animals: salmon, trout, and their relatives. | agronomy |
https://sandiegox.org/first-cases-of-citrus-tree-killing-disease-hlb-found-in-san-diego-county-nbc-san-diego/ | 2024-04-17T22:17:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817181.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417204934-20240417234934-00577.warc.gz | 0.932312 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141828751 | en | The California Department of Food and Agriculture on Thursday declared a quarantine in north San Diego County following the detection of the citrus disease Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, in two citrus trees on a single residential property in Oceanside.
This is the first time the plant disease — which does not harm people but is deadly to citrus — has been detected in San Diego County. CDFA is working with the United States Department of Agriculture and the San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner on a mandatory 60-square-mile quarantine area around the site to restrict the movement of citrus fruit, trees and related plant material.
The quarantine area is bordered on the north by Vandergrift Boulevard at Camp Pendleton; on the south by Carlsbad Village Drive in Carlsbad/unincorporated San Diego County; on the west by the Pacific Ocean; and on the east by Melrose Drive on the eastern edge of Oceanside.
HLB quarantine maps for San Diego County are available online.
An HLB quarantine area currently exists in parts of Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where more than 2,400 trees have tested positive for the disease and been removed.
The quarantine prohibits the movement of all citrus nursery stock or plant parts out of the quarantine area. Provisions exist to allow the movement of commercially cleaned and packed citrus fruit. Fruit that is not commercially cleaned and packed must not be moved from the property on which it is grown, although it may be processed and/or consumed on the premises. This includes residential citrus, such as oranges, lemons, grapefruit and kumquats.
Residents are urged to take several steps to help protect citrus trees:
- Do not move citrus plants, leaves or foliage into or out of the quarantine area or across state or international borders;
- Cooperate with agricultural officials placing traps, inspecting trees and treating for the pest; and
- If you no longer wish to care for your citrus tree, consider removing it so it does not become a host to the pest and disease.
HLB is a bacterial disease that affects the vascular system of citrus trees and plants. It does not pose a threat to humans or animals. The Asian citrus psyllid can spread the bacteria as the pest feeds on citrus trees and plants. Once a tree is infected, there is no cure; the tree will produce bitter and misshapen fruit and die within a few years.
CDFA staff are scheduling removal of the infected trees and are in the midst of surveying citrus trees in a 250-meter radius around the detection site to determine if any other trees are infected with HLB. A treatment program for citrus trees to reduce Asian citrus psyllid infestations will also be conducted within 250-meter radius of the find site.
The action is designed to remove a critical reservoir of the disease and its vectors, and is considered essential to protect surrounding citrus.
The public agencies continue to pursue a strategy of controlling the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid while researchers work to find a cure for the disease. | agronomy |
https://greenzenfit.life/grow-your-own-first-year/ | 2018-05-23T02:57:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865411.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523024534-20180523044534-00136.warc.gz | 0.975413 | 1,055 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__70877970 | en | This year in March we took a big step – moved to the countryside, in a proper grown-up home, to get away from the noise, crowds and stress of London, if only for a few hours a day.
We didn’t plan for this initially, but while on a walk with the dogs, we saw an ad that some allotment plots are available for hire. The price per year is almost nothing, so we immediately imagined ourselves eating and bathing ourselves in salads and tomatoes. It was like a vegan dream.
We called the council and received by email the plan of the allotment with the available plots clearly marked. We went to visit the place and analysed what’s available. Made a list of pros and cons of each plot and picked one! No 74 was soon going to be ours. We had to wait for all the paperwork from the council before starting any gardening, but the whole thing took about two weeks from the first call to the first day of work.
How big is it?
It’s a quarter of a tennis court. And the location is 10 min walk away from our home.
Preparing the soil
The plot was a mess when we started – overgrown grass, rocks – so it took almost a week to tidy up. We did have an asset though: my Mom. She’s an expert in gardening so having her here right at the start of the process was perfect.
Choosing the seeds
There was no choosing. We went to the supermarket and picked up one pack of seeds of every possible plant – tomato, cucumber, salads, radishes, cabbage, broccoli, onion, garlic, beans, herbs, kale. Some of them went right to the plot, and some of them were first planted in small pots and then moved into the plot once they were strong enough.
One big issue we had was the fact that we started this at the end of April. Most people start by planting their seeds in pots, inside their homes in January and move them out in March / April. So we were late. Just to make sure we won’t be hugely disappointed, we bought some already grown plants (already grown = standard size for that time of year) from our local market. We got some tomatoes, beans and two plants of aubergines.
Planting the seeds is not even half of the battle. The real work is taking care of your garden – weeding and watering. We’re constantly weeding but never feel like we’re making any progress, they’re out again in a few days! We estimated that a good amount of time to spend at your plot is around 5h every week.
The first year is an experiment – check what grows and what doesn’t, if the soil is good enough or we need to get some compost next year, if some plants can thrive in pots and if we can cope with the amount of work needed. We kept some plants in our home garden, in pots – some tomatoes, beans and aubergines to check if they can do well. And so far, so good. We are also experimenting with growing salads and onions from scraps.
What went well
- Some of our planted tomatoes have done so well that are now as big as the ones we bought
- We had enough salads, spinach, garlic and radishes to enjoy a few good meals
- We already cooked green beans twice and they keep growing
- Due to the timing of planting the tomatoes, we’ll have enough to eat in the summer and pickle in the autumn
- The plot had some abandoned potatoes, and we managed to grow plenty of them
- We grew tomatoes by planting pieces of tomatoes (that have seeds, of course)!
What didn’t work
- From all the cucumbers we planted, only one came out. And it’s struggling to grow
- No onion, cabbage, kale or broccoli. They didn’t make it. We don’t know why
- It’s a constant battle with the weeds
We did a lot of research, and now we’re saving our own seeds to plant next year. We still have to buy some, but having our own will be much more satisfying. If you want to know more about how to do this, let us know.
We have a little compost pile at the plot, and we plan to use it. Another resource we could use is manure. Because there’s plenty of it. Cows are roaming around (freaking me out) and they do their business everywhere. This might be the answer for those poor plants that didn’t grow at all. I do love cucumbers; I would definitely get my hands dirty.
At this point, all we’re doing is maintenance and picking up whatever is ready to be eaten. But the work never stops, until probably late autumn for about 2-3 months.
Do you have a plot? Any advice for us newbies? What’s your favourite thing to grow? Do you have any questions for us? | agronomy |
http://www.eatinghealthyfoods.org/jamaican-fever-grass.html | 2017-11-22T23:58:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806708.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122233044-20171123013044-00248.warc.gz | 0.962126 | 446 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__187897262 | en | Growing wild in Jamaica is an herb called Fever Grass, or Lemon Grass. This herb, which forms large bushy plants full of long, skinny leaves — just like a grass — has so many beneficial properties that it is rapidly becoming a hot production item in Jamaica.
Jamaicans have long known that boiling some fever grass in water, then drinking the resulting tea causes one to perspire which can break a fever. Fever grass tea has been a part of the Jamaican bush tea (teas which are made from leaves of various bushes) lineup for as long as humans have been living on Jamaica, but when you add brown sugar and honey, it makes a delicious after-dinner treat. At just about any Negril restaurant you can order lemon grass tea for a healthful aperitif.
Some chefs and many Jamaicans also use it for seasoning food. It adds a wonderful lemony essence to the food, so it’s just perfect when used to flavor soups, curries, seafood, chicken, vegetables and fruit. Since it helps with digestion, including it in food is always beneficial as well as tasty.
The leaves of the fever grass plant contain oil, and that oil can be extracted and used for many medicinal purposes. Added to a bath it helps treat fevers that way, or the oil can be used to ease muscle pain, headaches, and even aids in increasing circulation. The aroma is a powerful therapy too, all on it’s own.
The oil of lemon grass is additionally finding use in organic cleaning products and personal care products. It has been found to have antimicrobial (kills bacteria) and antifungal properties, so it can be used as antibacterial hand soap and to treat athlete’s foot and acne among other things. Because it improves circulation it’s used in a lot of facial toners and hair products too.
All in all, the benefits of Jamaican fever grass are just too numerous to mention already, and more uses are being found every year. For an herb that grows wild wherever it can find a foothold, that’s a pretty good thing, and helpful to the Jamaican economy too. | agronomy |
http://www.theadventureproject.causevox.com/ | 2017-04-25T08:23:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120206.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00430-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.969776 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__147935132 | en | Most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa don’t grow enough to feed their families - I know, it’s crazy. But, when they are able to buy an irrigation pump, everything changes.
Meet Musili and his family. Because of their new irrigation pump, him and his family eat tons of nutritious food and he’s making enough money from the extra produce he sells to send all 7 of his children to school. That is HUGE!
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Meet some of the fundraisers that are part of this campaign | agronomy |
https://marketingreseller.net/2022/03/garden-bed-mulching-guide-home-improvement-videos/ | 2024-04-25T15:40:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297295329.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425130216-20240425160216-00230.warc.gz | 0.931953 | 270 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142070705 | en | Are you looking to enhance the look of your home’s exterior? This video will show you how to properly mulch your gardens bed.
Mulching can be a great addition to your landscaping that will help your garden stand out from the rest. If you’d like to make your flowers and bushes look nice then mulching might be what you’re looking for. There are some steps you will need to take before you can begin the mulching process.
First, you must remove the mulch under the garden beds. Mulch buildup in your yard may cause harm to your home and property. Cleaning out the mulch in a straight line is important to ensure that your garden stays on the proper direction. Once you’ve hit the roots you’ve gone as deep as necessary. It is a good idea to pile up the dirt and mulch on a heap within your backyard to eventually transform into compost.
If you want to give your garden a makeover, making your mulch new or starting the mulching process completely is a fantastic option to improve your home’s appearance from the outside. This will guarantee that your plants are happy and healthy. Watch this video for additional information on how you can correctly mulch the beds of your garden. | agronomy |
https://pestcontrolsupermarket.com/blogs/news/a-few-garden-visitors-you-don-t-need-to-worry-about | 2023-12-09T10:42:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100909.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209103523-20231209133523-00226.warc.gz | 0.95104 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__275930333 | en | We’re experts in everything from cockroach control to mole traps, but we also know not everything that visits your garden needs to be dealt with using pest control supplies. Although common pests like rats and moles are clearly a nuisance, we sometimes hear from people looking for information on what NOT to drive out of their garden.
In an effort to do our bit for the UK environment, here are five animals that aren’t dangerous to humans and can make your garden a more eco-friendly, healthy place to be!
We all learn from a pretty young age that bees are the UK environmental good guys. They only sting as a last resort and are responsible for massive rates of pollination. Taking into account only the UK’s honeybees, the street value of plants pollinated by them is around £1 billion per year. According to some sources it would cost £200 million in labour alone to pollinate all the plants needed for that £1 billion. And that’s not taking into account the plants needed to feed other residents of the natural world.
Albert Einstein predicted that if the bee were wiped out, humans could only survive around four years before the food ran out, i.e. no pollination, no plants, no food for animals/man, no more animals/man.
Bottom line – we love bees, so do a little research to find out what plants attract them to your garden.
They’re not a good sign indoors and in large numbers can cause damage to crops and your favourite garden blooms. But most species of UK beetle are also fiercely predatory and help keep the numbers of genuine pests like aphids and small caterpillars down.
Some species of hoverfly seek out plants covered in aphids on which to lay their eggs. When the eggs hatch they have an instant food source which they devour hungrily without causing damage to the plant. They also help pollinate flowers like the bee.
The aphid-gobbling machines of the natural world, there is pretty much no downside to having lots of ladybirds in your garden. Gardeners love ladybirds thanks to their unquenchable appetite for aphids and complete ignorance to foliage.
Often recommended as a natural form of small pest control, hedgehogs are another of nature’s eating machines. They don’t pose a threat to humans or any of the plants in your garden, but they will go after slugs, snails, newts, the eggs of ground nesting birds and pretty much anything else made of delicious meaty proteins. They typically rove over an area of several kilometres per night.
Hedgehogs could be considered a pest if there were too many of them, but UK hedgehog numbers have been steadily falling for several decades. They’ve now made it onto the UK’s top 10 endangered species list. Loss of habitat is a huge problem for hedgehogs, so making your garden an inviting place could not only keep the insect population down, but also provide a safe space. | agronomy |
https://dorsetsheep.co.uk/blogs/news/decades-devoted-to-improving-and-promoting-the-poll-dorset-in-the-uk | 2024-04-25T05:07:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297284704.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425032156-20240425062156-00761.warc.gz | 0.963392 | 1,856 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__42137800 | en | Devon breeder David Rossiter has devoted decades to improving and promoting the Poll Dorset in the UK and, in return, the Huish flock has proved to be the backbone of the family farming business.
When David first began working at home, Burton Farm, Galmpton, near the coast at Kingsbridge, he was given the task of running the flock of purebred native breed longwool sheep which were crossed with the Suffolk.
Not satisfied with the performance, he bought a couple of pens of Dorset ewe lambs, thin king he would cross them and that commercial ewes were the way forward.
“We bred some pure and they produced three ram lambs which each sold for much more than the stock sire had cost and we found the pure bred Dorsets proved to be much more profitable,” said David.
Around that time David won a YFC travel scholarship to New Zealand and he spent eight months in the country and Australia working on farms where he quickly saw what made their Poll Dorsets producing a heavier carcase the number one terminal si re and this decided him on the future of the flock at Burton Farm.
Inspired by the late Poll Dorset breeder David Mathews from Bridgend, South Wales, who imported genetics from Australia and New Zealand to improve carcase quality and who gave great suppor t to next generation breeders, David quickly became an advocate of performance recording before Signet began but he has always maintained that the sheep has to function correctly.
The flock has won the Dorset association’s annual flock competition and cham pionships around the country.
In the following five decades of recording, David has seen big increases in lamb growth rates, carcass conformation and maternal performance – a situation he attributes directly to his breeding programme. Poll Dorset carcase weights have increased from 16-18kg to 20-22kg without excessive fat cover.
Now with one of his landlords set to adopt a natural regeneration policy on 300 tenanted acres of the 1,100 acres David and his son Rich farm, they will rely on the Dorsets and another new sheep enterprise to help weather the changes.
They farm predominantly grazing ground, 331 acres are owned and the remainder are rented from seven different landlords. They grow 250 acres of winter and spring barley, 20 acres of maize for the sheep and 20 acres of vetch and oats for feeding the rams which include Aberblack shearling rams bred on a contract with Innovis.
Until now the farm has run a flock of 520 Poll Dorsets lambing in September- October or in January, 200 Suffolk-Aberblack January lambing ewes and 400 Exlanas, a wool-shedding sheep breed composite which includes genetics from UK breeds and easy care sheep that David and nine other breeders have developed over the last 15 years. A further 600 ewe lambs are overwintered as replacements or for sale the following year.
The 300 acres of “store sheep land” as David describes it along the coastal strip designated for natural regeneration will not allow sheep to be grazed on it from April 1 to August 1.
“The sheep enterprises will have to be altered to cope with the reduced grazing and we will use the advantages of the Poll Dorset in the new management system. We have several different ideas. The farm now supports Rich and his wife Alice and we have four staff involved with the livestock and arable contracting business and we don’t want to make anyone redundant. “The Poll Dorset will come in to its own with the natural regeneration and it will give us the flexibility to lamb more of them, increasing the flock to 700 ewes in the next two years. We will sell some of the Exlana spring lambing ewes and we will replace them with Poll Dorsets to lamb in September-October.
“We have been putting the Poll Dorset on to the Exlana which we don’t want to breed pure. Now we are looking at the Australian White and establishing a flock with imported embryos. They are A-seasonal breeders which if we crossed it with the Poll Dorset we would get a wool shedder in three generations.
“Dorsets have been helping me to survive through all kinds of difficulties. In 2007 TB took the farm’s dairy herd and that was when the sheep enterprise really started to be put into gear.
Lambing in September is restricted to a tight three to four week period from September 10 to maintain the seasonal capability of the flock. Dorsets which have missed the autumn lambing go on to lamb in the three-week January lambing. The Exlanas have lambed over four to five weeks in March. Poll Dorset lambs are sold as new season lamb from 12 weeks old on contract to Waitrose, finished on crop or grass with creep. Rams are left entire with the selection for rams retained for breeding carried out at weaning when they can also ascertain which ewes have milked well.
The aim is for a 22kg carcase for the Waitrose branded scheme, set up thanks largely to the work of Wiltshire Dorset breeder Jim Dufosee. Rich and Alice are developing another enterprise - Huish Meat - in which they are marketing new season lamb from the heavier weight lamb carcases, selling chilled, boxed lamb all over the country from January to September. The venture started in 2020 and includes an on-farm cutting room.
The longer term plan is to market the niche Australian White lamb direct. The Australian White meat is likened to Wagyu beef with a different texture and fl avour to other lamb breeds and with a lower melting point.
Performance recording has provided a solid foundation for flock improvement and as an aid to marketing. Sales growth from the Huish flocks has also increased as a result.
“If you can improve volu me, you don’t have to cane customers on price if you do that they won’t come back. It has to be profitable for us but also for our buyers,” he says.
“Making breeding records available to our customers means they can find the right sheep for their system whether that’s selecting rams to accelerate lamb growth rates, improve carcass conformation or whatever trait they are interested in.”
Rams are selected initially on conformation by the Rossiters. This year’s consignment of seven rams entered in the May Fair at Exeter on May 2 and 3 at Kivells Exeter Livestock Centre were the first progeny from semen from two rams from the long established elite Gooramma Poll Dorset Stud in New South Wales, Australia which are among this season’s lamb crop.
Huish retains the highest average price for a pen of ram lambs sold at the May Fair.
While the May Fair is the flock’s foremost live marketing platform, the flock supports the Centurion Sale in April and sheep are sold off the farm at the end of the month. Huish prod uced the Centurion ram of the year in 2022 the breed’s Centurion Group is to promote performance recording.
Up to 60 rams are sold each year, including off the farm, with social media helping to promote the flock and its genetics. The Rossiters held the ir own on farm sale of 120 females last summer with a few more sold privately. The next on farm sale is scheduled for August 2026, taking into account the re structuring of the flocks.
Sheep are also sold for export from the Huish flocks which are scrapie monitored and this makes exporting an easier process. Recently, there have been enquiries for Dorsets males from Latvia and for Exlanas from Austria.
David says the Dorset breed continues to go from strength to strength. Two decades ago there were just o ver 200 breeders that has increased to more than 500 flocks all over the UK and Ireland.
“It’s the Dorset’s flexibility to lamb at any time to suit the breeder, either as a hobby flock to fit in with a career or to work around other activities on the fa rm such as crop work,” said David, a former long standing association council member, being both chairman and president over the last four decades.
He said the breed is easily managed and lambed because of the pelvic shape of the modern Poll Dorset. The sheep thrive on poorer ground and winter grazing without supplementary feed.
“The Dorset breed is not name driven, unlike other breeds where some flocks don’t stand a chance in achieving good prices. If you breed quality Poll Dorset stock and the sheep and the genetics are right, other breeders will look at them irrespective of prefix and they will give you a good return. It is also definitely a friendly society with plenty of help offered.” | agronomy |
https://cesh.bard.edu/2023/03/09/cesh-scientists-publish-paper-on-antimicrobial-resistance-and-environmental-microbiomes-in-agriculture/ | 2023-09-22T07:22:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506339.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922070214-20230922100214-00636.warc.gz | 0.9295 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__74786807 | en | CESH scientists Dr. Gabriel Perron and Carolina Oliviera de Santana recently published a paper in Microbiology Resource Announcements titled, “Metagenomes from soils sampled along an agricultural transect located in Ulster County, New York.” They believe “this data is relevant for research on antimicrobial resistance and environmental microbiomes as well as for policymakers.” Read an overview of the project below, and check out the full paper HERE.
The projects goals are clear: “Microbial communities in soil play an important role from an ecological and economic point of view. For one, microbial communities can sustain plant life and improve overall biodiversity, carrying important functional roles such as nutrient cycling and decomposition. Microbial communities in agricultural soils are also increasingly considered a key player in regenerative farming practices with the goal of sequestering organic carbon and promoting overall soil “health.” Yet, many modern agricultural practices can also negatively impact soils and their associated microbiomes.
For example, the extensive use of monocultures or the frequent applications of fertilizer and pesticides on farms can lead to the degradation of soil nutrients and depletion of microbial diversity. Given increasing pressures on the global food system due to increasing demands, understanding how soil microbiomes respond to agricultural practices is of great interest. More specifically, we are interested in investigating whether microbial and functional diversity can recover in soil after years of intensive farming.” | agronomy |
https://aither.com.au/northern-adelaide-irrigation-scheme/ | 2024-02-25T21:48:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474643.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225203035-20240225233035-00749.warc.gz | 0.938589 | 246 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__210248881 | en | The Australian Government has just announced $45.6 million in capital funding for the Northern Adelaide Irrigation Scheme (NAIS) which complements funding previously announced by the South Australian Government. The funding will be used to: upgrade infrastructure at the Bolivar Waste Water Treatment Plant to produce an additional 12 GL per year of recycled water suitable for irrigation; build core recycled water distribution infrastructure to the area north of the Gawler River, and enable a major new irrigation area to be constructed.
The project represents an important opportunity for the use of recycled water in irrigated agricultural production. SA Water’s ability to secure high-value agricultural customers is critical to realise the full extent of the opportunity on offer. We have already seen the opening up of Asian markets as a result of free trade agreements have a positive impact on the value of irrigated agricultural production in the Murray Darling Basin. Large scale greenhouse operations are also emerging based on their ability to generate year round production, product consistency, and flexibility to adapt to changing market demands.
Aither assessed the original NAIS business case for Infrastructure Australia which saw the project placed on the Infrastructure Priority List. We now look forward to seeing the project move through to the construction phase. | agronomy |
https://robertkoa.rotary3810.org/rc-manila-fort-santiago-launches-gulayan-sa-pamayanan-as-food-resiliency-initiative/ | 2023-12-03T04:13:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00764.warc.gz | 0.957395 | 540 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__311073529 | en | LCP Rex Pajenado
The Coronavirus pandemic has been in the Philippines for almost two years and we still don’t know how long it will last. The COVID-19 pandemic is continuously changing the world in unexpected ways.
Along with the appalling health situation, many Filipinos have lost their jobs and cannot go out to find work. As the result of lockdowns and the closing down of transport systems, people are constrained to stay in their houses and cannot go out to earn money for their families. Maybe the middle-class families can take care of themselves under these restrictions, but the poor households who live day-to-day are suffering under this set up, especially when it comes to food. With no income, people can’t put food on the table to feed their families and there is a concern on hunger.
LCP Rex Pajenado, a staunch advocate of urban gardening, started his urban gardening project entitled: Gulayan sa Pamayanan: Let’s Grow Our Own Healthy Food Now! Seeing the potential of urban gardening, and not allowing anything to limit this vision, the Rotary Club of Manila Fort Santiago partnering with the Bureau of Plant and Industry, launched an urban gardening project in Brgy. Isabelita, San Juan City, last September 11. In line with the Rotary’s Areas of Focus: Economic and Community Development and Supporting the Environment, the project started by conducting gardening and plant propagation training, followed by the distribution of gardening tools and materials, assorted vegetable seeds, seedlings, and fertilizers. The lactating moms of the community also received seedlings like malunggay and alugbati to nourish them, also to address one of Rotary’s area of focus, Maternal and Child Health.
We need to help one another and work with the government agencies and local government units to promote and to spread the knowledge about how to grow healthy and organic vegetables. This is not the time to complain so much but to help one another. If we could multiply this effort, people can feed their own families, even if they don’t have money to buy food in the market. In their own backyards, small pots or buckets, and on land in their local communities, they can get the nutritious greens they need for their families.
Now, more than ever, we need to encourage the interest on Filipinos growing their own food, so that we can help them to achieve food sustainability amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban gardening is an applicable intervention to assure communities and the urban poor to have access to affordable and food. | agronomy |
http://ecsample.com/ | 2021-12-05T17:31:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363215.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205160950-20211205190950-00355.warc.gz | 0.918816 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__166457188 | en | Shanghai Bailion chemical Co., Ltd is a concentration of industry and trade one of the major import and export enterprise, engaged in phosphate, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals in domestic and international trade, exports into $50 million, in Hong Kong has Bailion chemical (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
The company operates fertilizer, pesticide, chemical, phosphate, etc varieties, the company has a professional quality is high, the growing trade team, in the fierce competition actively develop new products, new customers and new market. The company and the world more than 30 countries customers have a stable trade relations, with more than 100 domestic manufacturers to maintain good relations of cooperation. In the face of the complicated and changeful market environment, innovation, forge ahead, to become the global famous chemical fertilizers and farm chemicals traders, for global agricultural harvest to make its own contribution.
Shanghai Bailion chemical Co., Ltd., in line with the customer first, honest and trustworthy, pioneering innovation, strives for perfection the management idea, with the sincere hope that friends both at home and abroad to carry out business, and common development. | agronomy |
http://farmersonfilm.org/ | 2016-06-26T17:04:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.974767 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__63765520 | en | The story behind farmers on film and what we want to achieve from it was brought to live by the ABC Landline team in Australia in March 2015 when I presented the key note speech at the International Rural Women’s Conference 2015. The feature truly shows of the spirt of how farmers on film came about, what it wants to achieve and has inspired other farmers to start telling their story through film in Australia. I had a brilliant time and would like to thank everybody who took part in the filming.
Farmers on Film vision was turned into reality at this years Staffordshire Show, where Adam and Ant first ‘On Your Doorstep’ Film was premiered on social media. The film show casing local farmer Stephen Adcock from the Churnet Valley totally engages the viewer to the life he leads to allow him to produce and show his Dexter cattle and brings to life the passion of why people like local food at the Leek Fine Food Festival held on the third Saturday of each month.
The team was very proud to meet the NFU President Meurig Raymond and Jeremy Lowe from Staffordshire NFU at the show to explain to the vision behind the concept and the positive response we had from them both on the idea.
The film was made possible through the Churnet Valley Living Landscape project supported by the Heritage Lottery funding. | agronomy |
https://jackoudyn.blogspot.com/2011/06/tumeric.html?showComment=1308972746627 | 2018-09-20T22:54:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156622.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20180920214659-20180920235059-00174.warc.gz | 0.971713 | 99 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__161320686 | en | A good crop of tumeric (More vermillion) this year. Seems to like the extra rain we had.
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a perennial plant of the ginger family. It is quite attractive during the year but dies off in winter ready to be harvested. I started my crop from a piece of root (rhizome) we bought in Byron Bay. I use it fresh in curries now but dried and ground up for the rest of the year. | agronomy |
http://sandycovetrail.blogspot.com/2008/04/spring-beauty.html | 2018-07-17T21:06:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589902.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717203423-20180717223423-00016.warc.gz | 0.980887 | 264 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__253892991 | en | “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” -Mark 4:3-9
These little flowers, each about half an inch across and called Spring Beauty, are growing all across the grass. The white blurs in the background are more blossoms. It wasn't till I got grass stains on my knees that I was able to see the delicate pink lines running toward the center of each flower and the bright pink anthers on the stamens. The root tubers, flowers and leaves are eatable.
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https://werepair.org/blog/repair-recipe-how-to-have-a-farming-friendly-summer/ | 2017-09-22T22:27:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689373.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922220838-20170923000838-00057.warc.gz | 0.934222 | 539 | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__124627995 | en | Are you craving a summer filled with fresh veggies, time spent outside, a chance to dig in the dirt, and an opportunity to work towards food justice – but not sure how to get there? Repair the World has got you covered. We’ve crafted three easy-to-follow recipes that will have you enjoying the tastiest local produce and contributing to a more equitable food system. Check them out and get farming!
Recipe 1: Grow it yourself
– 1 small backyard, community garden plot, large container, or window box
– a good amount of soil
– a few packets of seeds or plants
– lots of water
– 1-2 videos (like this or this) explaining how to grow food in an urban environment
– A couple of clicks on Ample Harvest’s website.
Take a look at your space (or lack thereof) and decide how many vegetables and fruits you want to attempt to grow. Combine soil and seeds or plants, adding water frequently until vegetables arrive. Refer to videos as needed. Donate any excess produce to help feed hungry people with Ample Harvest (make sure your local food pantries are registered on their site!)
Recipe 2: Support a local farmer
– 1 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership
– 2-3 sturdy tote bags
– 7-10 reusable produce bags
– 1 volunteer shift at your CSA
– 12 weekly trips to the farmer’s market
– 1 kitchen
Pick up your locally-grown vegetables and fruit at your CSA once a week throughout the season. (Say hello to your farmer if he or she is there!) Pack your vegetables and fruit into your tote bags and produce bags. When it’s time, do your volunteer shift and help keep the CSA running smoothly. Supplement your produce haul (with bread, cheese, eggs, honey and other goodies) with weekly trips to the farmers market. Cook in your kitchen like a veggie-loving maniac! Find recipe ideas here.
Recipe 3: Go, grow and learn
– 1 summer volunteer day on the farm with Urban Adamah
– 1 weeklong sustainable agriculture/food justice workshop with Jewish Farm School (apply by May 15)
– 1 week (or month) spent volunteering on an organic farm with WWOOF
– 1 workshop on preserving your harvest through pickling and canning led by Shoresh
Check your calendar and spread ingredients liberally throughout the summer months. Pack your overnight bags and enjoy.
What’s your recipe for creating a farming friendly summer? Let us know in the comments below or by tweeting @repairtheworld. | agronomy |
https://www.wildearthgardens.com/landscape-maintenance.html | 2018-08-18T02:48:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221213264.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180818021014-20180818041014-00063.warc.gz | 0.898495 | 707 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__212013407 | en | Professional Landscape Services, Design-Build, Garden Maintenance, Irrigation
Spring Clean: Reboot the garden for a new year. Remove debris, dead leaves, and twigs and do minor pruning to prepare the garden for oncoming growth spurt.
Annual Plantings: Create colorful and long lasting impacts in your perennial borders and surround the home with well-placed garden containers to extend the season.
Weed Control: Weeds suck up the water and fertilizer meant for other plants, they block out sunlight when they get too big, and their roots can choke and kill the roots of your intentional garden. Keeping your garden weeded is just as important as keeping it fed and watered.
Prune: Pruning is an essential gardening skill. When you prune correctly, you encourage healthy growth and flowering (in the case of flowering plants), as well as good looks. For most shrubs and trees, it helps to prune at the right time. Some are best pruned in winter; some in early spring & some right after flowering.
Dead Head: Deadheading refreshes a plant's appearance, controls seed dispersal, and redirects a plant's energy from seed production to root and vegetative growth. It also prolongs the bloom period or encourages a second flush of blooms on some perennials.
Cut & Divide: This is a cost-efficient way to increase your collection of perennials; it also promotes vigor & health by stimulating new growth both below and above ground.
Fertilization: Plants need to be fertilized because most soil does not provide the essential nutrients required for optimum growth or the plants cannot access it. Even if you are lucky enough to start with great soil, as your plants grow, they absorb nutrients and leave the soil less fertile. Also, roots, leaves and flowers require different levels of nutrients so you can specifically support your plants’ needs.
Amend Soil: Helps to replace windswept top soils and naturally fertilizes the garden. Amendments are soil mixes made of top soil mixed with mulches, compost and other organics.
Organic or Conventional Herbicide Application: Let’s face it, it can be near impossible to stay on top of weed growth or manage invasive varieties such as bindweed or thistle. Herbicide is an effective treatment to augment manual methods of weed control.
Mulch Replenishment: Top dressing or fluffing of existing mulch. Mulch, plain and simple, makes a garden look clean and tidy. But more importantly, it helps to improve the growing conditions for plants. Layers of mulch improve soil texture, suppress weeds, and conserve water.
Bulbs: Fall is the time to plant bulbs for the spring. Think big. Large displays of early spring color make bold impacts on the landscape and are a joy to see.
Fall Clean: Don’t let blight or diseased foliage linger in the form of fallen infected leaves. We remove large masses of leaves but allow some to remain for natural mulch. We leave free standing bird food such as black-eyed susans, coneflowers, sunflowers & berries. Some debris is left in the form of stalks, bark, & twigs for overwintering beneficial insects.
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https://ssau.ru/english/news/22218-scientists-of-samara-university-have-created-the-friend-foe-agricultural-system | 2023-11-30T11:52:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100184.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130094531-20231130124531-00621.warc.gz | 0.935206 | 440 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__273223453 | en | According to the University scientists, weeds develop very quickly, considerably outpacing development of cultivated plants. They take away light, water, and nutrients, creating unfavorable conditions for other crops growth. Moreover, young weeds can spread plant diseases, and curly weeds can make it difficult to harvest, which leads to large crop losses.
Researchers from Samara University have proposed a new way to combat weeds. They have developed the system consisting of a hyper-spectrometer and a special neural network for recognizing plants of different species, which is capable of distinguishing both weeds from cultivated plants and different types of cultivated plants.
“We have obtained the system to solve a number of applied tasks, primarily in framework of precision agriculture. The hyperspectral camera developed at our University forms 150 spectral channels. It is not always possible to analyze this data array by applying simple methods, so the key result of the work was creation of the neural network that can recognize three types of plants. In future, as the technology develops, the list of recognized crops will expand”, told us Roman Skidanov, Professor of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of Samara University.
He noted that the developed system will make it possible to create a weed sensor to targetedly destroy weeds, without affecting cultivated plants. To do this, the device must be used together with the automatic sprayer to be integrated into the nozzle control system.
Besides, according to the scientists, the neural network combined with the hyper-spectrometer can be used as the basis of vision systems for unmanned agricultural machines. It can also be applied on UAVs as the system for plant health diagnostics and general monitoring or control of crops.
As Romar Skidanov noted, the development will help save and reduce the cost of some processes in agriculture.
“The economic effect may amount to several hundred rubles for each cultivated hectare. It consists of saving expensive chemicals in course of targetedly processing plants, and increasing yields”, he stressed.
Samara University is a participant of the Russian Government University Support Program “Priority 2030” of the National Project “Science and Universities”. | agronomy |
https://www.vimofoods.com/products/corn-on-cob | 2023-02-03T17:29:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500058.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203154140-20230203184140-00741.warc.gz | 0.874087 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__112458495 | en | Corn is one of the world’s most popular cereal grains. It’s rich in fiber and many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. The fibers in corn are insoluble ones, such as hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin. Corn is a nice source of protein. It also contains significant amounts of vitamin E, ubiquinone , and phytosterols, increasing the shelf life. Phosphorus is a mineral that plays an important role in the growth and maintenance of body tissues. Sweet corn has a number of vitamins, including: Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), Folic acid ( vitamin B9), Niacin(B3), and Potassium.
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https://mepa.gov.ge/En/News/NewsPartial?page=196&pageSize=7 | 2022-01-18T03:52:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300722.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118032342-20220118062342-00157.warc.gz | 0.945822 | 996 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__122110697 | en | Candidate for the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Levan Davitashvili delivers a speech in the Parliament of Georgia
At the joint sitting of the five parliamentary committee, the key directions that facilitate the development of the agricultural sector has been brought forward by the candidate for the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Levan Davitashvili.Activities undertaken to promote market diversification have significantly contributed to the overall export growthMarket diversification has generated a positive impact on the overall export performance. According to the 2017 data, Georgia exported 777 million US dollars worth of agro products, which is 12% higher than the export figure in 2016 and 52.2% more than the same figure given in 2012. According to the forecasts of the Ministry, this figure ($ 777 million) will reach the billion by the end of this year.A number of activities were implemented in order to reduce the negative trade balance in the agricultural sector and facilitate the further growth of export of agricultural products, including introduction of international quality standards. At present, all enterprises sponsored within the "Unified Agro Project", which use the co-financing program for agro processing and storage enterprises, are obliged to introduce the ISO-22000 or HACCP international standards.In 2017, due to a deliberate policy pursued by the state, an unprecedented amount of wine in the history of independent Georgia was exported in different countriesThe state has developed a marketing strategic plan for promoting Georgian vine and wine, purposing to create Georgian wine as a competitive category, promoting establishment of target markets and boosting export led growth.In 2017 an unprecedented amount of wine in the history of independent Georgia is exported. In 2017, 76.7 million bottles (0.75 l) is exported in 54 countries of the world, which is 54% higher than the same figure in 2016. In total $ 170 million worth of wine is exported, which is 49% higher than the reported data in 2016.Implementation of berry crops development project has already been launchedThe berry fruit cultivation development project will be launched to increase the export potential of the berry-fruit industry in the country. As a result: new berries gardens are planted in 900 hectares, in 18 municipalities (50 hectares in each municipality. As for the berry development phases, the production will reach up to 6 900 tons for the 4th year of fruit bearing, which will amount to 28,480,000 GEL.The modern gardens are currently cultivated on 5,400 hectares under the program "Plant the Future", which continues to promote the cultivation of perennial gardens. Implementation of the Farmers Registry Program is underwayThe measures will be implemented in the field of farming registry and geo information system for sustainable land use to promote the rational management of agricultural land fund, agricultural land market development and targeted use of agriculture land.Over the last four years, the number of greenhouses almost doubled in the countryState support for greenhouse farming contributes to the maximum utilization of the export potential as well as the replacement of non-seasonal import with local products.The project "Imereti Agro zona" aims to stimulate the maximum utilization of the traditional export sector in the west part of Georgia, particularly to promote greenhouse sector (green herbs and greenhouse vegetables), and to increase earnings from export. As a result, in 2-3 years the production in Imereti region will be doubled;Irrigated land areas are annually increasedDue to the state irrigation programs, the irrigated and drained areas are annually increased, developed and improved in the country. The modern irrigation systems are gradually introduced. For 2020, hydro-ameliorated areas will be increased by 15-20%;Young entrepreneurs' support program "Young Entrepreneur" has already been launchedThe main goal of the program is to provide financial and technical assistance to the young people, promote economic growth in the regions and reduce rural poverty. 250 young entrepreneurs will be financed within 2 years, the total budget amounts to 9.5 million GEL. 57 business plans were approved and 18 agreements were signed according to the data presented on May 30, 2018." Increasing private sector capacity is envisaged in our policy’’- Levan Davitashvili saidAccording to the Candidate for the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, one of the most important issues is to fulfil the needs of farmers and increase their access to agricultural equipment. Therefore, due to the amendments introduced in the preferential agro credit project, the sub-component have been added to the preferential agro credit components, including: preferential agro-credit financial resources to purchase agricultural machinery and agro leasing, which aims to provide preferential agro-leasing to finance agricultural machinery;"The project includes a new component, which practically meets the demand of the whole country. Our policy is targeted at promoting the competitiveness of entrepreneurs, private sector, farmers and increase their access to the agricultural technical equipment - Levan Davitashvili said. | agronomy |
http://cip-cpr.org/en-events/first_harvesters.html | 2018-12-16T12:59:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827727.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216121406-20181216143406-00179.warc.gz | 0.924858 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__263069664 | en | “The First Harvesters: early evolution of crop harvesting techniques in the Mediterranean”
25 th January 2018, 14:00
Museum of the City of Skopje
We would like to invite you to the lecture entitled ‘The First Harvesters: early evolution of crop harvesting techniques in the Mediterranean’ by Niccolò Mazzuco (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and Juan Francisco Gibaja (Spanish National Research Council). The lecture will take place on 25 th January 2018, 14:00, at the Museum of the City of Skopje and will focus on technological evolution following the emergence of agriculture in the Neolithic. A special emphasis will be put on the Neolithic population which brought domesticated crops from the Middle East to Europe, but also technologies, tools and knowledge necessary for their cultivation, harvesting, preserving, processing and consuming. The lecture will encompass tools used in agriculture and the manner of their production and use. This event is organized by the Center for Prehistoric Research and the Museum of the City of Skopje and is realized as a result of the cooperation with the Spanish National Research Council, which analyzes the technologies implemented in the manufacture of agricultural tools used in the Neolithic settlements in Macedonia. | agronomy |
https://en.moringaandco.com/categories/drinks | 2017-07-25T20:39:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549425381.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725202416-20170725222416-00251.warc.gz | 0.88199 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__194413685 | en | The most nutrient dense plant in the world, as ranked and classified by the World Vegetable Center.
Over the last 15 years we’ve worked alongside Moringa producers across the globe in order to develop and ensure harvests under ethical and sustainable conditions.
A moringa inspired smoothie with fresh tropical notes.
A full and feel-good smoothie!
A tonic and refreshing drink, packed with greens!
A winter smoothie packed with immune-boosting vitamins. | agronomy |
https://www.drinkscene.com.au/product/juicy-isle-spklg-organic-apple-16-x-330ml-glass/ | 2022-06-26T13:59:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103269583.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626131545-20220626161545-00031.warc.gz | 0.894834 | 110 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__238972 | en | Juicy Isle Spklg Organic Apple 12 X 330ml Glass
The Good Apple is made from 100% organic Tasmanian apples. These apples are grown in certified organic orchards in the world famous apple growing Huon Valley in southern Tasmania. The apples are picked crushed at the orchard. By using a cold-filtered press the bottles can be cold filled, rather than pasteurised, there is very little processing so you get the true fresh taste of the apples.
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http://fattoi.it/eng/text1_olio.html | 2024-03-05T14:19:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00250.warc.gz | 0.903027 | 119 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__60775710 | en | The Azienda Fattoi has always produced an Extra virgin olive oil. The olives are scrupulously harvested
by hand and taken immediately to Montalcino where, by utilising the cold press technique, we are able to produce a fruity, fragrant Extra virgin olive oil which is of extremely low acidity.
Our trees are traditional Tuscan olive trees of the Leccino, Frantoio and Moraiolo variety Annual production
is limited to a total of 1000 bottles of 0,750 ltr and 500 bottles of 0,500 ltr. | agronomy |
https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/Garlic-Seed-Hardneck | 2022-01-25T10:46:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304810.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125100035-20220125130035-00712.warc.gz | 0.950819 | 217 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__199306993 | en | Sold in 1/2 pound increments.
It’s true. There’s an heirloom variety of hardneck garlic named after our very own MaryJane (hardneck means it produces a scape). It’s a rare variety that she slowly brought back into disease-free production over the course of 20 years. From 60 different varieties that she conducted field trials on, this one was in a standout league of its own—truly remarkable. It stores well into spring without sprouting, peels super easy, and each individual bulb is large and amazing to work with when cooking, plus it’s packed with flavor. It was originally found in the outback of the Soviet Union by Rich Hannan, the director of the Western Region U.S. Department of Agriculture Germ Plasma Bank, located right next door to us in Pullman, Washington. There truly is no finer hardneck garlic than “MaryJane.”
This is a Project F.A.R.M. (First-class American Rural Made) product. | agronomy |
http://en.wzruifeng.com/a/PRODUCTS/Fry_Seed_Machine_Cooker/2016/0922/25.html | 2020-09-22T19:57:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206763.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922192512-20200922222512-00078.warc.gz | 0.916486 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__285726476 | en | Automatic temperature control roller Fried seed machine
This machine is small in size, compact structure, easy to cook and take out the materials and there are controllers of veering and backspin, thermo-regulator. They can be used to cook all kinds of plant oil seeds.
This kind of machine has many advantages: using the heating element to heat, fast to warming. It is barrel shaped with seal and works by rolling so that the heat is distributed evenly and heat loss is minimal, energy saving and environmental protection, process production.
The motor is equipped with forward, rewind controller and temperature regulator, it is convenient to cook and take out the materials. Cylinder and crushing plant using variable speed to fit drying requirement, and can be adapted to a variety of different materials such as rapeseed, sunflower, peanut, chestnut, sesame, etc. | agronomy |
https://practicalmotoring.com.au/car-news/biodiesel-from-coffee/ | 2022-06-28T14:24:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103556871.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628142305-20220628172305-00444.warc.gz | 0.947299 | 438 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__147123968 | en | Biodiesel from coffee? Yes!
Scientists at the University of Bath, UK have made biodiesel from coffee grounds, suggesting it could become a potential “local” alternative fuel source.
New research from the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and published in the ACS Journal Energy & Fuels showed that oil can be extracted from both fresh and waste coffee grounds by soaking them in an organic solvent, before being chemically transformed into biodiesel via a process called “transesterification”.
Dr Chris Chuck, Whorrod Research Fellow from the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Bath, said: “Around 8 million tonnes of coffee are produced globally each year and ground waste coffee contains up to 20% oil per unit weight.
“This oil also has similar properties to current feedstocks used to make biofuels. But, while those are cultivated specifically to produce fuel, spent coffee grounds are waste. Using these, there’s a real potential to produce a truly sustainable second-generation biofuel.
“The yields and properties of biodiesel can differ depending on the growth conditions of current biodiesel feedstocks, sometimes causing them to fall out of specification. The uniformity across the board for the coffee biodiesel fuel is good news for biofuel producers and users.” That means, he said, that coffee is actually a more stable, if smaller scale, alternative to current feedstock-based biodiesel.
The researchers suggest that while coffee biodiesel would be a relatively minor part of the energy mix, it could be produced on a small scale by coffee shop chains to fuel vehicles used for deliveries. These same delivery vehicles could be used to collect spent coffee grinds and take them to a central biodiesel production facility to be processed. Companies such as London-based bio-bean already produce biodiesel and biomass pellets from waste coffee grounds.
Rhodri Jenkins, a PhD student in Sustainable Chemical Technologies and first author of the study, said: “We estimate that a small coffee shop would produce around 10kg of coffee waste per day, which could be used to produce around 2 litres of biofuel”. | agronomy |
http://pxizw.web2001.cz/18-organic-produce-essays.php | 2018-09-19T20:30:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156305.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919200547-20180919220547-00105.warc.gz | 0.956627 | 1,382 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__49978120 | en | There has been much discussion on the matter of organic products. Although it has become common to treat organic products as “better” ones, the problem is that little thought is put into understanding how exactly organic food is better than non-organic and whether it is worth the money it costs. There is a growing concern that what people call organic might be neither healthier nor more natural than the products not labeled as such. Firstly, chemical pesticides are not the biggest problem in the food industry; secondly, it is often hard to define whether food is really organic or not. This paper provides some details and facts on the topic.
For a start, the term “organic” means that no chemical pesticides, antibiotics, or fertilizers were used in the environment where the product developed. There is a large list of those pesticides that are prohibited under Organic Foods Production Act, which are opposed to organic pesticides. The main problem is that 99.99% pesticides are produced by plants for the sake of their self-protection, which makes only 0.01% of all pesticides non-organic. Besides, organic pesticides might be toxic to humans as well. It turns out that there is little difference between the two in terms of health risks. For example, in 2013, it was found that approximately half of illnesses caused by food came from vegetables, with 20% from leafy greens such as spinach. Examples of the most common bacteria to cause diseases include salmonella and campylobacter. Legally, food safety is not the area of concern of those who maintain the standards of organic goods.
The National Organic Program led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ensures that the products are organic, meaning that no prohibited substances or practices are used when producing it. There is also the 1999 Organic Foods Production Act which lists all prohibited practices, pesticides, antibiotics, fertilizers, and the like. USDA orders and conducts testings of organic products to see whether they meet the standards or not. Certifying agents that work under the Department are obliged to test 5% of the products annually. Such tests are expensive, which makes the “organic” products costly. Indeed, the market of agricultural goods has increased over 1,000 times in price during 2010-2014. The biggest problem is that, after the products were certified, farmers can shift to non-organic production anytime and market it under the organic label. The whole system is trust-based, and the customer may even not know that he or she consumes non-organic products at the price of organic ones.
To illustrate the point, here are some facts. In 2012, 571 product samples were tested by the USDA. Of this quantity, 43% contained traces of substances that were prohibited by the Organic Foods Production Act. Some products were really organic but came into contact with non-organic pesticides, and the rest of products were simply mislabeled as organic. Moreover, almost 47% certifiers with USDA between 2005 and 2014 failed in their role to provide organic standards.
While there is still discussion going on regarding whether organic food is healthier than non-organic food, it might be the case when people are creating the problem out of nowhere. There are natural products which can cause more harm to the human body than chemicals. On the other hand, it is hard to be sure that certain products are really organic. While budget money is spent on tests and certification, and people’s money is spent on food labeled as organic, there is no guarantee that producers are not using this low frequency of food testing to their advantage. The issue must be studied more thoroughly; until then, “organic food” is mostly just a trend.
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Show MoreA cultural shift to organic is critical for future human and environmental benefits for three reasons. First, a person’s health depends on good food being put in the body. Organic foods do not contain any artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, or pesticides making them better for one‘s health. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all pesticides-- all chemicals in conventionally grown agriculture-- cause cancer (CCOF). The bottom line is that these chemicals are poisons designed to kill living organisms and can all harm humans. Second, because organic foods use natural fertilizers such as compost or manure, crop rotation, and careful breeding, many people…show more content…
First, consumers see a link between agricultural practices and the health of the earth. For example, it is now understood that conventional agriculture overworks the soil breaking down carbon into carbon dioxide. When released into the atmosphere, this carbon dioxide contributes significantly to global warming. On the other hand, organic farming has been found to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by pulling it from the air and storing it within the soil as carbon (Pimentel et al. 573). Secondly, consumers see a healthy earth interconnected with human health. For example, plants growing in eco-friendly soil cultivate, based on what conventional wisdom says about pesticides and antibiotics, logically safer food. Safer food will lead to healthier people and less money spent on healthcare. Lastly, recent outbreaks of a disease that basically eats away at its victim’s brain known commonly as Mad Cow Disease has pointed public attention health wise (Dunn-Georgiou 29). This disease occurred when cows were fed meal made from ground up body parts of infected animals. Organically raised animals, conversely, are fed 100 percent organically raised grain that in no way could result in the transmission of strange diseases. The cumulative effects of pollutions, pesticides, and health problems for both animals and people are dangerous, and we must play on the safe side of the | agronomy |
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Growing personal, household and community resilience in Cape Town, South Africa. Resilience through permaculture, used as an optimistic tool for designing highly productive human and environmental systems. Preparing youth for work in the local green economy, inspiring and empowering them to create thriving communities focused on abundant food systems, appropriate technologies, and social innovation while supporting local entrepreneurship and transformative education. | agronomy |
https://www.simispats.org/diggs | 2023-09-28T20:16:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510454.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928194838-20230928224838-00419.warc.gz | 0.924954 | 168 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__90423033 | en | Discovery Is Growing Gardens at Simis
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
– Alfred Austin
Be a part of Simis's long-standing garden program! DIGGS volunteers maintain the Simis gardens and team lead hands-on, science-based activities for each grade. Preschool, 3rd and 4th grades are active in the garden in the fall semester. Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade grow in the gardens in the spring semester. There are many ways to volunteer, so please contact us if you don't see a way for you to use your special skills to get involved!
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http://www.geoffreycarr.co.uk/articles/spring-is-nearly-here/ | 2023-12-04T09:15:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00282.warc.gz | 0.95065 | 467 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__307567279 | en | February and March in the garden always feel to me like the darkest winter months before the spring dawn. Spring is not far off and yet the days can still be cold, dark, wet and short. The garden too can be looking scruffy, baron and a bit of a damp, cold mess. It can be a depressing scene if it were not for the promise of good things soon to come. I have to remind myself that Aconites have been showing off their yellow flowers in the lawn under the tree since the very beginning of January, the dogwood is still blazing orangey red in the shrubbery and the snowdrops are happily sparkling like forgotten jewels rediscovered in the flower beds.
Now is a good time to get to grips with those garden jobs that are all too easily put off until another day. Jobs that will pay dividends later like pruning overgrown deciduous hedges before birds begin to nest, weeding beds and borders, (avoid standing on wet, soggy soil because it will compact), digging trenches and incorporating compost for later planting of runner beans and sweet peas, dividing and planting flowered snowdrops, cutting back mid to late summer flowering clematis and pruning summer and winter jasmines. It is not too early to start work on the lawn either. Aerate, mow, weed and remove thatch now if the weather is dry and mild. Shrubs will benefit from a spring application of slow release fertiliser, trees and shrubs can just about still be planted if weather permits and also you complete the pruning of apple and pear trees.
Depending on what plants you have in your garden or allotment there are many more jobs to do at this time of year. Plant shallots and onion sets, dead head flowered bulbs, lift and divide summer flowering perennials, repot, top dress and feed container plants, cut back ornamental grasses, pollard shrubs and trees grown for winter colour, mulch bare soil in beds and borders, prune roses, plant early potatoes and finally, put grow bags in the greenhouse to warm up before planting, (I always leave the full watering can in the greenhouse for the same reason) and put plant supports in the herbaceous border before they put on too much growth. | agronomy |
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ДокументDecision-making in agricultural sector in view of the environment(КНУБА, 2019) Chunmei JiThe article deals with the main approaches to decision-making in the agrarian sector. The conceptual basis of decision-making is conducted. The peculiarities of national approaches to decision making are considered. The questions of management and peculiarities of its application in agrarian sphere are considered. The approach-analysis-assessment-diagnosis as a basic stage for further research is considered. Peculiarities of monitoring of objects of agrarian sphere are considered. The use of statistical methods of analysis and forecasting, in particular, multidimensional statistical methods during economic monitoring, is substantiated. The ability to determine the relationship between environmental and economic indicators by means of statistical methods is shown. The mutual influence of agriculture and ecological factors is considered, which determines the necessity of making decisions on increase of efficiency of use of natural resources and application of new approaches to agriculture. | agronomy |
https://www.idahoruralwater.com/Services/SourceWater/ProtectYourCommunity/ReachOuttoYourCommunity/EncourageProperUseofFertilizers.aspx | 2021-07-29T19:48:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153892.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729172022-20210729202022-00500.warc.gz | 0.898637 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__165036916 | en | Encourage Proper Use of Fertilizers
Over fertilization is negatively affecting surface and ground waters in Idaho. Fertilizer contributes nitrates, phosphorus, sulfur, magnesium, and more to our drinking water supplies. It may also indicate the presence of other harmful chemicals, such as pesticides and herbicides.
Encourage your drinking water customers to be conservative with home use of fertilizers. People often over apply fertilizer on their lawns, and over water! Explaining how fertilizer can move over paved surfaces and also leach through soils into groundwater can help people make the connection between their actions and the health of their aquifer. Provide education regarding drinking water treatment and the increase in utility bills associated with treatment.
To view the 2014 nitrate priority areas in Idaho, visit DEQ’s website
DEQ’s nitrate page
DEQ’s fertilizer and pesticide pamphlet
Flyer – Basic Facts on Fertilizer:
Post this in your City Hall, library, local hardware stores, or anywhere you think people will see it!
Flyer - Safe Fertilizer Practices:
Encourage your residents to take these safety measures when fertilizing.
Learn about a great Idaho-made, chemical-free, fertilizer for your home garden.
Brochure on how to increase beneficial pollinators on your farm
. This will increase your crop production naturally.
Information on how to use pesticides without damaging the “good bugs.”
This will also help increase crop production and decrease chemicals in our drinking water. | agronomy |
https://vistadelsur.laveenschools.org/2016/02/vista-plants-garden-with-edible-garden-grant/ | 2020-09-24T00:55:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400213006.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924002749-20200924032749-00463.warc.gz | 0.984051 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__248673393 | en | Vista students, in Grades kindergarten through third, planted their spring garden with the help of the Western Growers Association. The school received a $1,500 Edible Garden Grant from Western Growers last spring. The students have been busy preparing for their garden. Each grade level chose seeds or plants based on the Science standards being taught. The students were excited to plant their own seeds and will be tasked with watering and maintaining the garden as well as eating the fruits and vegetables of their labor. | agronomy |
http://millstonevineyard.blogspot.com/2009/08/chardonnel-harvest-2009.html | 2018-12-18T13:54:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829399.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218123521-20181218145521-00110.warc.gz | 0.943387 | 68 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__61775795 | en | Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Chardonnel Harvest 2009
Thanks for the wonderful help on a beautiful Monday morning, we harvested 1052 pounds of Chardonnel. It never ceases to amaze us that our family and friends continue to lend a helping hand in this endeavor. We hope you enjoy the fellowship as much as we do. | agronomy |
http://whitepinehomestead.com/2013/05/chickens-sour-crop/ | 2020-11-24T15:25:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176864.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124140942-20201124170942-00387.warc.gz | 0.983303 | 815 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__191875250 | en | We expanded our family to include 10 hens a few months ago. They have been endless entertainment for us and take no real effort to maintain the coop or feed them. I have heard chicken watching referred to as chicken television. One could sit and watch them peck and bounce around for hours if you had the time. Throw some seeds down for them to compete for and you have some quality entertainment.
What does one do with a chicken?
We allowed them to free-range around the property while we were home but once the gardens started to send up their green shoots we needed to confine them. Chickens are savages in a garden. Once they eat all the greenery they will then proceed to dig up and eat the root system. The tulips were the first to emerge and the first to be quickly consumed. The chickens made their dust bath area in the tulip garden which was cute but frustrating. I love my gardens so this was very bad for me. I love my chickens and their fresh eggs but we have spent years cultivating our flower beds and if I had to chose I may pick the hobby that doesn’t poop all over my grass.
Luckily, I don’t have to choose between the two as our neighbour offered to lend us 4 large sections of chain link fencing he had stored in his barn. Now our chickens have their own run. I can spend time with them in their fenced area rather than using a rake to ward them off my gardens.
The other day I noticed a big bulge in all of their necks. It was on the right side of every one of them. I thought they all had tumours and ran inside to Google chicken neck tumours. My research found that it might be something called “sour crop”.
What is sour crop and what causes it?
The crop is the food storage pouch in a chicken’s neck. Chickens do not have teeth to break down their food, so they can get a build-up of rotting grass and grains in their crop. If they eat grass that is too long or items like plastic or string they can end up with a blockage. Mix this matter with some digestive juices and funky stuff starts to brew. This build-up in the crop is called “sour crop”. It is also described as a yeast infection in the chicken’s neck.
Sour crop symptoms
The chicken websites advised me to look for the following indicators of sour crop:
- hard bulging crop or squishy crop
- little or no appetite
- bad smell coming from their mouth
- liquid coming out of their mouth
Treating sour crop naturally
It looked like I was going to have a busy few days trying to clear up this sour crop naturally. I was advised to:
- separate the chickens with sour crop to limit food consumption to avoid adding more food to the blockage
- increase water intake so they won’t dehydrate
- force them to vomit (though there are mixed reviews on this as people warn that more often than not the hens could get vomit in their lungs and subsequently suffocate)
- feed them nothing but yogurt and apple cider vinegar for days to flush the crop out
- massage the crop to work out the liquid (preferred to vomiting)
I was totally panicked as I had no idea how to massage a chicken crop or where I would house these quarantined chickens. I emailed a friend for advice. She has about 50 chickens so she is my go-to for all chicken related concerns. She assured me that they likely don’t have sour crop, but are just full from eating. She told me that their crop will empty over night when they don’t eat. She advised me to wait until morning to see if their neck lumps had decreased. After early morning inspection it turned out that, yes, the chickens were just well fed the day before!
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https://reviewerguides.com/which-side-of-the-lawn-mower-blade-is-up/ | 2022-09-28T06:06:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335124.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928051515-20220928081515-00182.warc.gz | 0.871834 | 2,090 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__160644629 | en | For removing or attaching a blade, we need to know which side of the lawn mower blade is up. If you have a big yard or garden, you just need to cut grasses per week. We all know that; a lawn mower machine is handy for cutting grasses.
Because it makes our work process very easy and we can do it very quickly with the lawn mower machine. But we also need some maintenance for our lawn mower. One of the essential maintenance of the mower is changing the mower blade. Because the unsharp machine gives uneven results while cutting those grasses and we need to change that blade in time.
How Do I Know it’s Time to Change the Lawn Mower Blade?
Unsharp lawn mower blades will cause many problems while mowing the grasses. That’s why we must maintain the regular blade changing period. Some suggestions will make you sure that now it’s time to change your lawn mower blade:
- If the running blade gives you uneven results while you are cutting the grasses
- If the blade is making a thunderous noise while it’s spinning
- An unsharp blade will leave some rough spots after cutting the grasses
- Blade balancers will not work well if your lawn mower blade becomes a dull blade.
- The cutting edge of the grass will be rough if the blade is dull.
- The manufacturer’s recommendation is to change the blade after twenty-four hours of total use.
What are the Things to Keep in Mind Before Changing the Blades?
There are some things to follow before changing your lawn mower blade. Let’s find out step by step:
- Wear safety accessories before changing your lawn mower blade.
- Before changing the blade, make sure which of your blade is up and down.
- Unplug your lawn mower machine before changing the blade.
- Make sure the lawn machine is calmed down correctly.
- Bring the bolt opener set matching the bolt size of lawn mower machines.
- Keep the children away while you are changing the blade. It’s better to work inside your backyard garage or in a workshop.
Everyone needs to maintain safety while changing the lawn mower’s dull and rusty blades. Sometimes a dull blade also can cause a big accident. So, let’s follow some safety rules:
You must wear blade-proof safety gloves before removing your dull blade from the mower machine.
- Do not forget to wear safety glasses.
- Please make sure the mower engine is cooled enough so you can hold it.
- Keep the new blade in a safe place.
- Then step by step, safely detach your old rusty dull blade.
Which Side of the Blade are Up And Down?
Almost 90 Percent of people make this mistake while changing the old blade of their lawn mower machines. People forget to mark or label the upside and downside of the blade. Sometimes the manufacturers label the upside and downside of the lawn mower blade with a sticker.
But the maximum time that sticker falls apart while mowing the grasses. That’s why many people get confused while attaching the new blade. But don’t worry at all, we will show you some tips to find out which side of the blade is upward and which of the blade is upward.
The Upside of the Lawn Mowers Blade
It’s straightforward to identify the upside of the lawn mower’s blade. Mainly the downside of the blade is sharp and cut the grasses. So, the upside of the blade is pretty much cleaner than the downside of the blade. But the main problem is with the new blade. Both sides of the new blade are shiny and sharp. But Manufacturers always stick a label that will probably help you identify the lawn mower blade’s upside.
How to identify the upside of the lawn mower’s new blade?
- The manufacturer attaches a sticker label on the upside of the new blade
- The sharp side of the blade faces typically downward. So, we can easily detect the straight side of the blade will face upward.
- Some latest lawn mowers have a great function. If you mistakenly mount the blade in the wrong way, it will not adjust properly.
Is the Right Orientation of the Blade Essential?
Many people think that changing the blade of a lawn mower is not a very hard task. But you will face some significant issues if you mount the blade in the wrong way.
Maybe now you are thinking about what kind of problem you will face if you assemble the mowers blade in the wrong way; let’s see then:
- Ripped Grass- If you mount the blade in the wrong orientation by any mistake, you will not get the crisp and sharp result after mowing the grass. Instead of it, you will see grasses are ripped positively, and that’s very noticeable and unpleasant.
- Ruined Blade- Regular blades have sharp side edges. It spins in the right direction and cuts the grass perfectly. But the wrong orientation of the lawn mower blade can destroy the blade. But also, you will need to change the blade after one time of use.
- Damaged Mower- Now, this is the biggest problem if you will assemble the blade in the wrong position. Suppose you are mowing the grasses, and there are some small stones on the surface. Then the blade is spinning backward because of the blade’s wrong orientation. It will start to toss those stones inside your lawn mower, and you will face the worst situation at that time.
Categories of Lawn Mower Blades
There is some major category of a lawn mower blade; you should noticeably need to know categories to identify which type of blade is your one:
CATEGORIES OF LAWN MOWER BLADES
I. Reel or Cylinder Blades
II. Deck Blades
III. Mulching Blades
IV. Lifting Blades
V. Regular Lawn Mower
Reel lawn mowers are the most difficult ones to change among them.
What is a Reel Lawn Mower?
Principally, reel lawn mowers are utterly different from those regular lawnmowers. These lawnmowers have a cylindrical nature, so this one does not spin upside or down. The machine keeps the blade flat and spins in a balanced way. It also doesn’t wobble. That’s why the reel lawn mower blade does not have any upside or downside surface.
How to Change the Blade of a Reel Lawn Mower?
It’s pretty hard to find the right orientation of a reel lawn mower blade for a regular person. If you have a reel lawn mower, then the best suggestion is to follow the manufacturer’s assemble recommendation or take it to a professional.
How to assemble the blade step by step?
- Step 1: Wear your safety gloves and safety glass before blade assembly.
- Step 2: Get the bolt driver matched with the lawnmower blade bolt.
- Step 3: Unscrew the bolt and remove the dull blade.
- Step 4: Identify the upside of your new blade.
- Step 5: Now push the new lawnmower blade upside and screw down the bolt tightly.
What Should I Check After Assembling the Blade?
- Make sure the blade is in the correct orientation.
- Check the bolt screw downed properly. Do not over-tighten the blade bolt.
- Perform a wobble test while spinning, and the blade balancer is up to scratch.
- Check it carefully, start the mower engine, and make sure your blade is not making any strange noise.
- And, be careful that the blade length is not too long.
- An unbalanced blade can cause an accident.
How Can I Reuse the Old Blade?
If you genuinely want to save a couple of bucks, then you can sharpen your lawn mower’s old dull blade with outdoor power equipment or with a manual tool.
- Wear your safety gloves and your safety glasses.
- Grab a power grinder and re-sharp your dull blade with it.
- You can sharpen the blade with a sharpening stone if you don’t have the power grinder tool.
- Put your dull old blade on a flat surface.
- Spray some water on the blade.
- Rub the sharpening stone on the dull side of the blade.
- Keep rubbing in upside and down motion.
- Continue it until you see the sharp edge of the blade coming out.
- Now take a 200mm flat metal file.
- Rub on the blade surface gently 10-15 times.
- Spray some water on the sharp blade surface again.
- For the finishing touch, grab sandpaper (500).
- Rub with the sandpaper until you get a satisfying shiny result.
- Now wash the blade carefully.
- Now you have a sharp blade with a sharp edge, and you can use it again.
We are at the very end of the content now. Our most important purpose is to show the lawnmower blade’s right mount orientation and identify a lawnmower blade’s upside. But we always suggest taking professional advice from your lawn mower manufacturer.
But If you indeed insist on doing it by yourself, please try to read our article carefully. We hope you will find most of the solutions here. We also showed how you could assemble your regular lawn mower blades step by step to make the process of your work easier.
Now we know enough information about which side of the lawn mower blade is up. We hope this article will be helpful for all of you guys.
If you want to know more about lawn mower maintenance, please comment on us. Our experts will assist you as soon as possible. Thank you so much for reading this article. | agronomy |
https://katieinman.com/2016/03/31/find-a-new-way-to-grow-with-hydroponics/ | 2018-04-25T08:40:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947759.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425080837-20180425100837-00297.warc.gz | 0.934589 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__203452626 | en | Murfreesboro, Tenn.— You may be hanging up your shovels and gloves if you choose to garden hydroponically– but what does that word even mean?
If you garden using hydroponics, you are not using any soil to grow your plants; you just use a mixture of water and fertilizer.
The benefits of using this alternative gardening method outweigh the costs according to Jason Chambers, who is the owner of Middle Tennessee Hydroponics here in Murfreesboro.
“It’s more efficient and it’s also more automated. You use 80 percent less water in hydroponics and about half as much fertilizer,” explains Chambers. “It [also] stays in one place, it’s easy to maintain and it’s fun!”
Chambers says that it’s important to start gardening hydroponically because you can start growing and producing your own food, which can help to take away the strain on the food system.
However, Chambers also says it’s important to start “small and simple” if you do choose to take on the hydroponic journey.
There are many ways to garden using hydroponics, and a plethora of products to choose from to get your products growing. All of this can seem overwhelming, but Middle Tennessee Hydroponics provides products, service and advice that you can’t find at a regular gardening store.
If you want to find out more about the hydroponic process and find out where this unique business is located, visit Middle Tennessee Hydroponics’ website here. | agronomy |
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My second visit to Daftmill was to look into the business of growing distilling barley. This article appeared in Whisky Magazine, no 104.
On a dreich April day I returned to Daftmill to see what a barley farmer actually does when supplying distilling barley to the Scotch whisky industry. I hopped into Francis Cuthbert’s Landrover and we headed out to tour some of his 350 acres of newly seeded Spring barley. Francis has this split roughly equally with disease-resistant, high quality malting barley strains of Concerto, Belgravia and Minstrel. ‘You can only sow what you can sell so it’s the end-user who determines what you will harvest,’ Francis says. In Daftmill’s case the Belgravia which is a high DP (diastatic power) grain will go for grain distilling as the high diastase content is crucial in enabling the conversion of starch to sugar in the wheat/maize mash. The Concerto and Minstrel are destined for malt distilling, some of the former going directly to production of Daftmill single malt, and all of the latter exclusively to Macallan.
These latter two varieties are of the high-starch, low-nitrogen type that malt whisky distillers need to produce the required yield of 420 litres of alcohol per tonne of malted barley. Nitrogen content in these types is around 1.4%, while in the high DP strains it is 1.8-2.2%. Currently Francis is in the final year of a three-year contract with Simpsons of Berwick at a set rate of £150 per tonne. The spot rate on the day I visited was £180 but a quick glance back at the autumn surplus of 2010 revealed a rate of £90, so there is some security in this arrangement.
But what are the costs? First there is the seed which he ordered in December/January at £495 per tonne. On a rough working of 115 acres for each variety, he needed 75-100kg per acre so his seed costs alone came to around £40 per acre. Sowing the seed amounted to £21 per acre and after that the crop has to be maintained by spraying. Fertiliser costs have risen steeply in the last few years and is now around £300 per tonne. Francis’s recipe is a 20% nitrogen, 10% phosphate and 14% potash mix. That adds another £60 per acre. Add to that the cost of the actual spraying at £50 per acre, and the minimum cost per acre is £171 or around £60,000 prior to harvest.
If you happen to own your own harvester as Francis does, you can ‘save’ the £30 per acre charge for contracting this out, but bear in mind a new one will set you back around £280,000. Francis did the canny thing and picked his up second-hand for around £40,000 but has to maintain it and they are expensive animals that depreciate while sitting and doing nothing for 11 months of the year so it still works out at around £30 per acre. Our cost per acre is now £201 or £70,350 in total.
After harvesting in late August and early September the barley’s moisture content is checked. Ideally Francis wants to deliver grain to the merchants with a moisture content of 15% so if it is higher he has to reduce this in the grain drier. If grain at 20% is harvested it will require £2 per tonne for every reduction of 1% of moisture so to get the content down to 15% costs another £10 per tonne. Should barley delivered to the merchant be found to be higher that 15%, a sliding scale of excess charges is applied so if the barley arrives at 16%, a 1.2% moisture deduction is made. If it creeps above 19.1%, the charge is 6.3% with another charge of £3.50 drying charge applied per tonne. It pays to get the sums right before despatching it all down to Berwick.
The merchant will then pass the barley over 2.5mm screens to get rid of small particles and a magnetic field draws off any metal objects. This is where farmer’s mobile phones sometimes reappear! The dried barley is stored in vast silos, most commonly found nearest to where barley is grown, as in Francis’s words, ‘It is cheaper to haul malt than barley as it is lighter.’ There are large silos in ports as seaborne transportation to maltsters is more economic than road haulage. The maltsters in turn then dry the barley down to 12% moisture content while malting it to each distiller’s precise specifications.
So where does all this leave Francis? His 350 acres will yield him 2.2 tonnes of barley per acre, or 770 tonnes which he will sell for £115,500. His variable costs have amounted to around £71,000 including an estimated £650 for drying some damp harvest, his gross profit is around £44,500. And that’s before we have discussed his fixed costs per acre … | agronomy |
https://residencezone.com/make-your-own-interior-garden-with-plants-of-your-choice/ | 2024-02-29T05:11:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474784.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229035411-20240229065411-00477.warc.gz | 0.948797 | 845 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__181832959 | en | Indoor gardening is a hobby for some. During long winter days when it becomes tough to go out and practice gardening, interior gardening helps to fulfill that desire. With the advent of new technology, everything is made easy to achieve. Investing a few more in the interior garden strategies, you can enjoy your gardening all year round with just a little bit of window light and garden lights. You can grow fruits or vegetables inside the garden and even plant flowers in that space. An interior garden for a house is considered to make a different sense.
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Create a different genre
With artificial grass, the man-made fish pond, and plants of flowers, the garden tends to make the house look more gorgeous. However, if it is difficult for you, there are many steps one must provide so that you can work upon to create a new indoor garden at your own residence. Many of us earnestly wish to grow a garden that would look much better and provide a great sense of healing. This tends to make your interior garden look more beautiful and increase the aesthetics of the indoors offering the various organic features of the house. The plants at home not only cleanse the air but also purify the air within the house for breathing.
Sign of cleansing air
In fact, plants do not occupy much space but however setting up an indoor garden would be a sign of cleansing the air. At times people who have outdoor space grow some starter plants during the advent of spring. The indoor garden enhances the healthy growth of the plants in your own surroundings. It is suggested that one can set up their gardening strategies in a windowsill. There are certain factors that play intensive roles in setting up a garden of one’s own choice.
Create the space
Space is one such factor that plays the most significant role in building an interior garden of one’s own type. It hardly matters f you are just pushing off a small space for your indoor garden; your garden will grow up in that small space too. All that is important is to choose the right kind of space that helps in making the most out of this space. Place the garden in an area that has a linoleum or tile floor for catching the water drops by putting a tarp beneath the table.
Shelves are a part of the garden
Shelves can also be a part of building an indoor garden. It offers a lot of planting space which is bound to attract immense light. Each shelf might need a separate light for the growth of the indoor garden. Plants need to do photosynthesis in order to survive. The plants require light for photosynthesis. Without much light, plants would not grow spindly and tall. Even if enough energy is required for the growth of leaves, the leaves would not expand completely. Without ample light, it might so happen that you may not find fruits or flowers.
Grow light for an interior garden
The indoor garden also prefer choosing a grow light which is indeed a solution for your plants. Incandescent lamps are available in the market at low costs where you can buy them at the nursery or even at the store for hardware. Although they are suitable for the home growing of plants they are not the ideal glow lights for the plants in the indoor garden permanently.
Fluorescent light for garden
Another kind of light that adds to their growth in the interior garden plants is the fluorescent light. This is suitable for the growth of herbs and other types of plants. They are also inexpensive but you can buy them at the local store or garden supply or any hardware stores. These lights are not permanently ideal for the growth of bedding plants or flowering at all. The HID bulbs are available at various types. They are mercury vapor, metal halide, high-pressure sodium, low-pressure sodium. Sodium lights are the only grow lights that are needed for a gardener.
Experience the best
For the indoor gardens, gardeners might experience lack of humidity. This is similar to experiencing a challenge. Winters are usually drier than any other season. Keeping in mind all the factors one should set up the interior garden of one’s own choice. | agronomy |
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The number of floors is increased; the area is small; the space utilization rate is higher; and it is easy to realize intensive and large-scale feeding;
Layered treatment of chicken manure and natural air drying greatly reduce the moisture content of chicken manure and brings high utilization rate of chicken manure and minimal environmental pollution;
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Newton’s Donation garden is growing and abundant thanks to the good works of Dan and Politto.
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https://ecdl2010.org/bis-research-study-highlights-global-vertical-agriculture-market-to-reach-19-86-billion-by-2026/ | 2023-04-01T17:05:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950110.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401160259-20230401190259-00656.warc.gz | 0.921895 | 1,751 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__106539622 | en | BIS research study highlights global vertical agriculture market to reach $ 19.86 billion by 2026
FREMONT, California, November 2, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Global Vertical Agriculture Market Expected to Reach $ 19.86 billion by 2026, reveals the premium Market Intelligence study from BIS Research. The study also highlights that the market is expected to experience a CAGR of 24.30% during the forecast period 2021-2026.
Vertical agriculture is used to produce various vegetables and fruits on vertically inclined surfaces. Unlike conventional farming of vegetables and other foods on one level, such as in a field or greenhouse, the vertical farming method produces foods in vertically stacked layers usually incorporated into structures such as a container of d shipment, a reused warehouse and a skyscraper.
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The main companies operating in the market are AeroFarms, AppHarvest, Vertical Harvest, CropOne, Plenty Unlimited Inc., AmHydro., Kalera, Heliospectra AB, Hort Americas, Signify Holding (Koninklijke Philips NV), OSRAM GmbH., Valoya, EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS CO . , LTD., Sky Greens and SPREAD Co., Ltd.
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Market segmentation of global vertical agriculture market
Mechanism: Vertical agriculture can be achieved by various mechanisms, such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics. Hydroponics helps plants grow in water, aeroponics helps grow airborne plants, and aquaponics is an exceptional combination of hydroponics and fish farming in an integrated system. Both water and fish are needed to grow plants.
The hydroponics segment is the largest in the global vertical farming market. Hydroponic farms optimize plant growth, offer fresh local produce, and minimize the use of water, space, transportation, and pesticides. Additionally, hydroponics can be used in a greenhouse using natural light and, more often than not, using LED lights to save space. Due to such a wide range of benefits offered by hydroponics, its demand is increasing across the world.
Product: There is a wide range of products (components) used in vertical agriculture, including lighting devices, hydroponics components, air conditioning devices, sensing devices and others. The demand for lighting devices is expected to experience positive growth in developed and developing countries. This growth is mainly due to the benefits of lighting devices such as the propagation of young plants, the cultivation of healthier crops and crops without pesticides. In addition, crop production can be increased by using vertical farm lighting to illuminate multiple layers of crops, resulting in higher yield with a smaller footprint.
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http://www.idobio.com/product/12776.html | 2021-01-27T05:17:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704820894.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20210127024104-20210127054104-00196.warc.gz | 0.870095 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__116573585 | en | English name: barley grass powder
Latin name: Hordeum vulgare L.
Color: Green Powder
Specs: straight powder 80-300 mesh,
juice powder & extract powder
What's Barley grass ?
port from birth to old age. Barley has served as a food staple in most cultures. The use of barley for food an
medicinal purposes dates to antiquity. Agronomists place this ancient cereal grass as being cultivated as
early as 7000 BC.
1.Astounding amounts of vitamins and minerals are found in green barley leaves. The leaves have an ability to absorb nutrients from the soil;
2.Barley also contains a -glucan, a fiber also found in oat bran and reported to reduce cholesterol levels.
3.The root contains the alkaloid hordenine which stimulates peripheral blood circulation and has been used
as a bronchodilator for bronchitis.
1. It helps to alkalize the body.
2. It helps in cell DNA repair.
3. Barley grass acts as a free radical scavenger, reducing the amount of free radicals in the blood.
4. It helps in improving skin health.
5. It helps to stimulate weight loss.
1. To improve immunity power;
2. Heavy-metal detoxification (quite good for people who always working long time in front of PC and others);
3. It helps blood flow, and general detoxifications of the body.
4. For slimming;
5. For lowering blood sugar;
6. For balance internal nutrition required;
7. For bowel movements.
1. anti-inflammation, pain and rheumatism.
1. It is used as pharmaceutical raw materials and stuff. | agronomy |
https://www.savoie-mont-blanc.com/en/local-produces/alpage-de-bellachat-817078/ | 2023-09-30T00:40:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929222230-20230930012230-00586.warc.gz | 0.942011 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__214261705 | en | Open from 20 June to 30 September.
Manufacture and sale of beaufort alpine chalet on site (subject to availability of shepherds).
Made from 7am to 10am and from 5.30pm to 8pm and for the bravest, you can discover the milking of cows from 5am to 7am and from 3.30pm to 5pm.
Description of the appellation : Beaufort PDO: The specifications imposed by the producers are binding. The 2 main rules are: milk must come exclusively from Tarine and Abondance cows whose production must not exceed 5000 kg per year and per cow. Cows should only be fed hay and grass fed as a basic ration. Silage is not permitted. Complementation is limited and closely monitored. The main other rules are the geographical zone of manufacture delimited to the valleys of the Beaufortain, the Tarentaise, the Maurienne and part of the Val d'Arly. | agronomy |
https://www.kzntopbusiness.com/post/judy-stuart-future-farmers-foundation | 2024-04-25T00:58:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296820065.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425000826-20240425030826-00721.warc.gz | 0.950548 | 192 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__146653476 | en | Judy Stuart, an award-winning Howick dairy farmer who has always had a passion for all things agricultural. Judy is one of South Africa’s most revered dairy farmers, contributing to farming publications, and representing South Africa at global conferences on dairy farming and agricultural innovations. Her brainchild, the Future Farmers Foundation aims to cultivate skills and ignite a passion for farming in farmers between the ages of 18 and 26 years.
The aspirant farmers are provided the opportunity to ‘learn as they earn’ through real job experiences in an agricultural field of their choice. The farmers are placed in apprentice positions on local and then later international farms, returning home to South Africa with their expertise.
Judy now has farmers in large commercial operations around South Africa in responsible farming roles such a running over a thousand dairy cows. Judy commented that the Foundation only provides opportunities and mentorship, it is up to each young farmer to make the most of the programme. | agronomy |
http://www.thefigsofaustralia.com/tag/hybrid/page/15/ | 2021-09-24T21:31:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057580.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210924201616-20210924231616-00094.warc.gz | 0.946394 | 371 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__203412942 | en | You’re going to hear me bang on about hybrid native figs a fair bit. It’s a topic I’ve been studying for a few years now and I’m still trying to prove to Australia’s leading fig experts that it happens… all the time!
There’s very little written about figs hybridising, I’m planning to change that by writing some snippets on the evidence I’ve gathered over the years!
Here’s a quick example. I’ve been growing a Ficus triradiata in the ground for maybe 8 years and it fruited for the first time this year. This species naturally occurs in The Daintree Rainforest of Far North Queensland and it’s pollinating wasp isn’t found around Sydney.
I’ve seen Ficus crassipes, another FNQ fig grow in Sydney and it’s fruit is as hard as wood because it doesn’t get pollinated. I was really surprised when after months on this Ficus triradiata some of the fruit started to soften and ripen! Upon opening the fruit, it was full of seed and so too has been every fruit since.
It would seem that a wasp from a Sydney species has pollinated this tree, pollen possibly from Ficus rubigiosa or Ficus obliqua. I’ve potted up seed and hope to get some seedlings that look like rubiginosa or obliqua. Therefore getting morphologic evidence of cross pollination.
The ultimate result would be if some of the offspring produced fruit that is different from the parent, it will be at least five years before the seedlings produce fruit, good thing I’m patient. | agronomy |
http://joshuamhood.com/the-boy-who-saved-2-billion-people/ | 2017-10-20T12:32:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824104.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020120608-20171020140608-00853.warc.gz | 0.983255 | 419 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__102320538 | en | Norman Borlaug is ninety-one years old. His work hybridizing corn and wheat for arid climates has saved two billion people on our planet.
On the surface you would think, that’s incredible! But by reading history and understanding the far-reaching consequences of our actions, I understand that it wasn’t really Norman Borlaug who was responsible for saving so many lives… it was a guy named Henry Wallace.
President Roosevelt had three Vice Presidents during his four terms. The middle one was a man named Henry Wallace, the former Secretary of Agriculture.
While he was Vice President of the United States, he used the power of his office to create a station in Mexico whose sole purpose was to hybridize corn and wheat for arid climates. And he hired a young man named Norman Borlaug to run it. Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Prize. But when you think about it, it was really Henry Wallace who saved the two billion people.
Unless maybe, it was George Washington Carver – you’ve heard of Carver, right?
When he was nineteen years old and a student at Iowa State University, George had a Diary Sciences Professor who on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, would allow this brilliant student to take his six-year-old boy on botanical expeditions.
So it was George Washington Carver who took six-year-old Henry Wallace (long before he ever thought about being Vice President of the United States) and put a vision in his life about plants and what they could do for humanity.
So when you think about it, Carver developed two hundred and sixty-six things from the peanut that we still use today, and developed eighty-eight things from the sweet potato.
But it was a few afternoons one summer with a six-year-old boy that just happened to save the lives of two billion people and counting.
(Adapted from author Andy Andrews)
What small actions have you seen make a huge difference? You can comment here. | agronomy |
http://psla.umd.edu/news/dr-shahryar-kianian-genomics-provides-new-tools-battle-against-cereal-diseases | 2017-04-25T12:24:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120349.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00357-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.91476 | 589 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__171494156 | en | Dr. Shahryar Kianian: Genomics Provides new Tools in the Battle Against Cereal Diseases
Dr. Shahryar Kianian, Research Leader at the Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, MN spoke at University of Maryland, College Park on March 2, 2017 about the lab’s ongoing work to reduce losses to cereal diseases. Leaf and stem rusts of wheat, oat, and barley and Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat and barley are serious fungal diseases that can reduce yields or make crops unusable. In years with major outbreaks, these diseases have caused crop losses of as much as 75% for the small grains they affect1. The Cereal Disease Lab studies the genetics of the pathogens, the crops they affect, and the alternate hosts (e.g. barberry for wheat rust). The Cereal Disease Lab also monitors the populations and severity of these diseases within the United States and internationally.
Current management methods include chemical fungicides and the use of genetically resistant crop varieties. Unfortunately, the pathogens adapt quickly (generally 2-5 years depending on the disease) to overcome widely used resistant genes. Past efforts to break disease cycles by eradicating alternate hosts only had limited success2, mainly because fungal spores arrive seasonally via air currents.
Genomic methods are the key to maintaining defenses against cereal diseases. ARS research has expanded the arsenal of naturally-occurring resistance genes against specific races of cereal diseases. Dr. Kianian and his colleagues also hope to enhance crop resistance by pyramiding resistance genes, and by making use of “slow rusting genes, ” which significantly reduce but do not entirely eliminate pathogens, for example, in oat, Dr. Kianian’s particular area of expertise. Threats to global food security, such as the African wheat rust strain Ug99, which has adapted to overcome most known resistance genes against wheat rust necessitate international cooperation on monitoring and research. The growing understanding of the genetics behind pathogen virulence and crop resistance could potentially lead to new forms of resistance to these diseases, but such approaches have challenges of their own, related to the regulation and marketing of transgenic crops.
2) Peterson, P. D., Leonard, K. J., Roelfs, A. P., and Sutton, T. B. 2005. Effect of barberry eradication on changes in populations of Puccinia graminis in Minnesota. Plant Dis. 89:935-940.
3) Chen, X., Faris, J.D., Hu, J. et al. Saturation and comparative mapping of a major Fusarium head blight resistance QTL in tetraploid wheat. Mol Breeding (2007) 19: 113. doi:10.1007/s11032-006-9049-7 | agronomy |
http://www.telugupedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lettuce | 2014-12-20T02:17:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769321.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00124-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.958438 | 381 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__56292618 | en | Lettuce is a temperate annual or biennial plant most often grown as a leaf vegetable. In some countries, it is typically eaten cold and raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and many other dishes. In some places, including China, lettuce is typically eaten cooked and use of the stem is as important as use of the leaf. Both the English name and the Latin name of the genus are derived from lactis, the Latin word for "milk", referring to the plant's milky juice.
The Lettuce plant has a short stem initially (a rosette growth habit), but when it blooms the stem lengthens and branches, and it produces many flower heads that look like those of dandelions, but smaller. This is called bolting. When grown to eat, lettuce is harvested before it bolts. Lettuce is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera.
There are six commonly recognised Cultivar Groups of lettuce which are ordered here by head formation and leaf structure; there are hundreds of cultivars of lettuce selected for leaf shape and colour, as well as extended field and shelf life, within each of these Cultivar Groups:
Facts and figures
Lactucarium (or "Lettuce Opium") is a mild opiate-like substance that is contained in all types of lettuce and both the Romans, and Egyptians took advantage of this property eating lettuce at the end of a meal to induce sleep. The largest lettuce head was one that weighed 11 kg (25 lb), of the Salad Bowl cultivar, grown by Colin Bowcock of Willaston, England, in 1974. In the United States, 95% of all head lettuce is grown in California and Arizona. Yazidis consider eating lettuce taboo. See Taboo food and drink.
Main article: List of lettuce diseases | agronomy |
https://www.sprayertesting.co.uk/copy-of-sprayer-testing | 2022-05-22T08:43:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662545090.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522063657-20220522093657-00055.warc.gz | 0.912816 | 78 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__94274106 | en | TYRI developed the BlueBeam and RedBeam
LED as a powerful spot light with a wider beam
pattern than the BluePoint and RedPoint. Along
with the bright blue colour, the BlueBeam serves
a practical purpose, ensuring operators of crop
sprayers have full visibility of the nozzle spray
being spread across the fields with its powerful
short range illumination. | agronomy |
http://blog.pwa.net/2016/07/my-morning-snack-courtesy-of.html | 2024-04-20T23:20:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817688.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420214757-20240421004757-00797.warc.gz | 0.966019 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__8807716 | en | Here's a snapshot of my morning snack (too many of each actually):
The almond was grown right here in California, the cashew was grown in India. Thus, international trade made my morning a bit more interesting and certainly --- in that I love cashews --- more satisfying.
Here would've been my morning snack without trade:
Ah, you say, that's nuts! We could create jobs and produce cashews right here in the U.S.A.!
Well, cashews survive only in tropical environments. I honestly don't know that it can't be done here, but I do know that it isn't, and for good reason: it simply doesn't pencil. But almonds do, big time!
So, rather than going to great lengths and allocating valuable resources to the growing of things that our climate doesn't readily accommodate, our farmers grow what they grow best --- and take full advantage of the world's appetite for almonds. And, in the process, provide me with delicious, and deliciously affordable, cashews.
In a sense, our California almond farmers grow cashews in India. Or, we can say, they inspire cashew growing in India. I.e., Indians produce cashews because they love almonds, and we do almonds way better than them. And they know we love cashews, and they do cashews way better than us.
Folks, free trade --- two sides to a transaction agreeing to terms --- is always a win/win. There's never a "beating"... | agronomy |
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