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http://schwartzforcongress.org/statesenate/hemp-may-provide-opportunity-for-local-farmers/ | 2017-04-25T08:35:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120206.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00282-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95593 | 934 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__52366690 | en | February 27th, 2013 by Thomas Wills
The Colorado based organization HempCleans (www.HempCleans.com) would like to work with the State and local governments to jumpstart the return of one of America’s fiber and oil seed crops, industrial hemp.
As part of a town meeting hosted by State Senator Gail Schwartz in Hotchkiss on February 10, representatives of HempCleans gave an overview of the uses of hemp and in-progress efforts in Colorado to bring the crop back. Schwartz and fellow legislator Don Coram plan to collaborate on a bill that would facilitate the growing of the crop in the State.
A lesser noted result of the passage of Amendment 64 last fall was an addendum that also legalized the growing of industrial hemp in Colorado.
Hemp has been grown in the United States since pre-Revolutionary War times and was once a primary cloth fiber and oil seed crop until supplanted by cotton. But due to the illegalization of a related plant, marijuana, hemp has also been prohibited from being grown by farmers in the United States since the 1940’s.
In the meantime industrial hemp is grown in Canada, Europe and most of the rest of the industrialized world.
Industrial hemp contains only trace amounts of THC (the active drug component in marijuana). Retail sale of hemp products in the U.S. is estimated at $365 million annually.
During the meeting, Janson Lauve, Lynda Parker and Eric Hunter of HempCleans explained the status of industrial hemp in the state and the world while passing around samples of hemp products that are manufactured elsewhere and imported into the United States.
These include a pair of 100% hemp cloth blue jeans (wonderfully soft but made in China), hemp socks, hempcrete (similar to cinderblock), hemp OSB board, and hemp soaps and oils. Manila rope is also made from hemp. Hunter roamed the room pouring samples of hemp milk (similar to soy or almond milk.)
Hunter explained the current economics of growing hemp and both he and Parker stressed that there is an effort (particularly on the Internet) to oversell the possibilities of the crop. Hunter said that seed yields were about 200 to 800 pounds an acre resulting in an average of about a $900 per acre yield on just the seed.
The value of the stem fiber would be in addition to this. Hemp oil sells at wholesale levels from $12 to $50 a gallon with certified organic oil at the top end. Hemp is also a nitrogen fixer and thus would be a productive rotational crop, enriching the soil in many ways including extracting some contaminants. T
he initial market for hemp in Colorado would be for small growers to produce quality seeds for other future growers. Currently it is illegal is import non-sterilized hemp seeds into the United States so they would need to be produced within the state. HempCleans is working to secure a supply of seeds for prospective growers.
In the long term, Parker said that, if the crop is to become a major contributor to the economy, Colorado needs to develop the industrial infrastructure to process hemp fiber and seeds. If we could do this before other states, Parker said, we could capture a larger portion of the current and future hemp markets.
Even though growing industrial hemp is now legal in Colorado it is still an issue that needs to be clarified by the federal government since the DEA still technically has the power to prohibit (or allow) its cultivation.
Parker urged support of the Industrial Hemp Farm Act (HB1866) which has drawn broad bipartisan support including that from Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. Parker said that four more states are poised to legalize the growing of hemp.
In Canada a regulatory framework has been set up that charges hemp farmers a registration fee of about a thousand dollars plus $5 per acre per year to fund inspections.
At the end of the meeting the difference between hemp and marijuana was underlined when local marijuana growing advocates Scott C. Wilson of Hotchkiss and Jere Lowe of Paonia asked why anyone would grow hemp at a dollar a pound for seed when they could grow marijuana for thousands of dollars a pound for the high THC herb.
Parker explained that the hemp issue was separate from the pot issue. Hemp would be a useful alternative crop for farmers, another option with many benefits beyond the crop itself.
On February 4, the Delta County Commissioners passed a general ban on the growing of commercial scale recreational marijuana in the county. The ban does not affect the future cultivation of industrial hemp.
The North Fork Merchant Herald | agronomy |
https://www.themanorgiftshop.co.uk/products/poppy-peace-bom | 2021-05-07T12:09:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988793.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210507120655-20210507150655-00463.warc.gz | 0.914096 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__30194165 | en | Poppy Peacebom Seed bomb containing corn poppies, a wildflower known for its scarlet paper like flowers. Poppies are a symbol of wartime remembrance, peace and hope.
Pull the pin and throw or drop Seedboms into areas that are in need of brightening up. Seedboms like bare soil, natural light and to be kept damp whilst growing. Full instructions are included on inside of each Seedbom sleeve.
Seedboms will biodegrade into the environment, leaving only plants behind.
Each Seedbom contains 1 gram of seeds. Quantities vary depending on seed size i.e. larger seeds approx 10 seeds per gram, mixes approx 100 seeds per gram, to tiny seeds approx 10,000 seeds per gram.
Weight - 25 g
Size - 50 × 50 × 80 mm
First shake the seedbom a few times to distribute seeds inside.
Trigger by pulling the pin to remove the seal and submerge in water until fully soaked inside and out.
Throw or drop onto bare open ground that’s in need of beautification. IMPORTANT: Make sure it's split open to allow seedlings to sprout out! | agronomy |
https://parkridgehoa.com/news/ | 2024-04-16T16:15:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817103.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416155952-20240416185952-00037.warc.gz | 0.925149 | 293 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__204212244 | en | Summer Landscaping Tips
July 5, 2019 By Rich Caldwell, Vice President, ECOSystems Landscape Services
Everything is green. Although we are still getting rain, we must be prepared for the hot temperatures of the Texas summer. Make sure irrigation systems are efficient to prevent water waste. You should:
- Check the controller for correct time and day settings based on your water utility restrictions.
- Make sure it has a battery backup in case of loss of power.
- Turn on and visually check every head and nozzle, unclog and adjust them for proper coverage.
- Apply 1 to 1 ½ inches of water per week utilizing the run, soak, run method.
Turf & Trees Tips
Increase the mowing height of your lawn mower. Cutting too low will stress your turf and make it susceptible to drought, insects and disease. Increasing your mowing height will reduce water need and develop deeper roots. Keep your blades sharp on your mower. Try to water turf as close to sunrise as possible. Wet grass overnight encourages turf diseases. Watering in the heat of the day can result is as much as a 75% evaporation water loss.
If your trees need water, make sure to water the drip line of the trees. Running a slow drip hose works wonders as it will allow for better penetration.
Make sure to keep your plants mulched to help make better use of the water. | agronomy |
http://pest-experts.com/pest-control/spider-mites/ | 2023-06-07T18:45:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654012.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607175304-20230607205304-00769.warc.gz | 0.957314 | 394 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__120239909 | en | Spider Mites Control and Spider Mites Extermination
While Spider Mites have eight legs and are part of the arachnid family, you don’t have to worry about them biting you. These microscopic spiders are more interested in your plants than you. Spider Mites will attach themselves to the underside of leaves in order to suck the nutrients out. You more than likely will not be able to find them with your naked eye, you may need a microscope in order to see them, or you can just check for their webs. As a result of a spider mites, the leaves of plants will lose nutrition and in turn become discolored and eventually fall off. Spider mites are most often seen during the spring months when plants are starting to bloom. Females can lay up to 300 eggs during the course of just a couple weeks, which is why the population can occasionally be difficult to control.
The best way to prevent spider mites from being interested in your plants is to provide your plants with proper water and nutrition. Spider Mites will seek out sickly plants and thrive in dry conditions. While Spider Mites can attack both indoor and outdoor plants, if they are on exterior plants you may be able to release some of their natural enemies to help control the population. Predatory mites are one of the best to purchase and release, for this purpose. Most pesticides will not kill Spider Mites, and occasionally can make the situation worse rather than better. Spider mites can form a resistance relatively quick to new pesticides. The pesticides may also end up killing larger insects that would eat the spider mites naturally. The best option is to shear off the infected leaves and stems and throw them away promptly to discourage spreading. If necessary, there are certain soaps that have insecticides on them you can use to wash the infected plants with. These will not directly harm your plant, and will kill the spider mites feeding off of it. | agronomy |
https://www.heathergarth.org/blog/what-do-plants-need-to-grow/65276 | 2022-10-01T09:02:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335573.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001070422-20221001100422-00283.warc.gz | 0.992003 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__17064078 | en | What do plants need to grow?
Date: 9th May 2021 @ 9:00pm
Year 2 have been testing their ideas about what plants need to grow by planting beans in different conditions to compare what happens. Here are the results! The children have been excited to see them grow and most were surprised by some of the findings! They have also planted their own seed in a clear container in order to see how a seed grows into a plant. We are becoming very green-fingered! | agronomy |
https://www.burrowknox.com/post/winter-composting | 2024-02-27T13:19:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474676.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227121318-20240227151318-00820.warc.gz | 0.951375 | 549 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__4490874 | en | This year really reconnected me with nature.
For over a decade there was a compost bin in corner of my parents backyard.
I decided I was going to grow a proper garden this year and also start composting.
It's been nearly an entire year of composting but the true experiment is....what happens in the winter?!
I think one of the things that prevents people from composting in the winter is that it is cold, snowy and more inconvenient.
My solution is to have a proper system in place:
1) collect your kitchen scraps as usual. Usually people have small organic waste containers that fill up every few days. In the spring summer and fall it's easy to just run out to the back yard and dump it in the compost bin but in the winter you'll likely want to make fewer trips
2) I got a bucket and I got a gamma seal lid for it so that its more convenient. I put this in a corner of the laundry room. When the little organic bin is full in the kitchen, I just dump it into the larger bin in the laundry room. The game seal prevents any unwanted smells. When the bin gets full...every 1.5 weeks or so...that's when you can take it out to the composter.
3) your pile may just freeze over...and that's okay. Keep adding to it and in the spring you will be well on your way.
4) I'm not too crazy about to ratios In my compost. For me, there are 2 parts to my compost... Kitchen scraps which I refer to as green waste. And then there is brown waste.
From spring to fall your brown waste will be stuff from your lawn like leaves, stocks of plants after harvest and other plan matter.
In the winter these things are frozen or hard to find. I add paper shreds to my compost.... literally shredded paper. Egg cartons. Any bio degradable packing peanuts, or packaging paper, now certain places are using compostable food containers.
Osmow's here in Scarborough Ontario uses these compostable containers and I am proud of them for that.
The company Socialite Beauty uses biodegradable packaging peanuts that dissolve in water. It's fantastic.
I do about 60 percent green stuff and 40 percent brown stuff.
The decomposition might be slow.
The cold/thaw cycles will help break things down.
Nature has billions of years to figure this out. When the season transitions back to wamer weather you will have a nice heap that is ready to do it's thang.
Compost. Don't let the cold weather stop you. Stop exporting carbon off of your property. | agronomy |
http://dpannell.fnas.uwa.edu.au/dp0407.htm | 2019-02-19T23:48:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247493803.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219223509-20190220005509-00087.warc.gz | 0.884292 | 6,484 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__240765210 | en | Economic trends and drivers affecting the grainbelt of Western Australia to 2030
David J. PannellCRC for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity and
Department of Agriculture Western Australia
A majority of the farm businesses in Western Australia remain profitable, with rates of return comparable to non-farming sectors. However, there is continuing pressure on poor performing farms, as well as a range of social pressures, which mean that there will continue to be a steady fall in the number of farms in the grainbelt of Western Australia. Most remaining farms will continue to be profitable, due in significant part to successful R&D. Farms will continue to be highly diversified. We expect the real prices of most agricultural commodities to continue to fall, although we note predictions for meat prices to rise in the medium to long term. Key uncertainties about price trends include: future levels of agricultural protection in developed counties; the levels of price premiums for "green" products; the rates of productivity improvement for agriculture in developing countries; and energy prices. Key uncertainties about R&D/technology include the availability of funds for R&D; and the contributions of biotechnologies. Use of information technologies will increase, though not as much as some expect, and in some cases driven by shortages of skilled farm labour rather than production advantages. The fundamental elements of managing a farm have altered little, and we do not expect them to change in the next 25 years. Successful farm management will continue to depend largely on good decisions about the farm's enterprise mix, machinery replacement, land leasing or purchase, labour hiring and off-farm investments. Agricultural R&D should continue to address a diversified portfolio of issues, including attention to environmental issues, but not neglecting the need for ongoing productivity improvements in agriculture.
In prepared this paper, we have attempted to maintain an awareness of the pitfalls that await people who speculate about the future. One peril is the certainty that specific predictions beyond the short-term future are likely to be wrong (Freebairn, 1975; Godden, 1999; McCalla and Revoredo, 2001). For example, consider the views, from less than a decade ago, of leading agriculturalists speaking about broadacre agricultural industries in Western Australia.
"I anticipate there will be 100,000 hectares of yellow lupins grown in 10 years time." (p. 33) (Cowling, 1995)
"I believe that in 2005 we will be producing no more than 4 million ha of cereals, perhaps 1 million ha of lupins and about 1 million ha of other broadleaf crops." (p.96) (Perry, 1995)
The actual outcomes for 2003 were around 1,000 hectares of yellow lupins and 6.35 million hectares of cereals. The intended time frame for this paper is 25 years, so we approach the task with high expectations that at some future time our speculations will also be used to illustrate the how wrong one can be.
The second trap for writers on the future is the temptation to cover the full diversity of issues that will affect the future. We recognise that there are many potentially relevant issues, but we have attempted to retain a relatively narrow focus, based around factors that directly affect the business decisions of farmers.
The paper begins with general background on broadacre agriculture in Western Australia, and then discusses likely drivers of change in the future. Changes that currently appear relatively likely are suggested. The paper ends with discussion of some implications for agricultural R&D.
Background on broadacre agricultural businesses in Western Australia
Profitability and farm numbers
A majority of the farm businesses in Western Australia remain profitable (BankWest 2003). For example, in spite of the poor seasons in 1998, 2000 and 2002 in many agricultural districts, farm businesses in the broadacre region of Western Australia averaged a rate of return to capital of around 2 per cent over the period 1998/9 to 2002/3 (BankWest 2003) (e.g. see Figure 1). The top 25 per cent of farm businesses averaged a rate of return to capital of 8.1 per cent over the same period.
Figure 1: Farm businesses’ average nominal rate of return to capital in the central agricultural region: 1989 to 2002. (Source: Based on ABARE farm survey data.)
Carroll (2003) has compared the relative capital gain of an investment in farmland compared to one in listed property trusts or a diversified share portfolio represented by the all ordinaries index. He found that for the period 1987 to 2002 the compound growth for farmland value was 5.1 per cent per annum compared to a compound growth of 2.9 per cent and 5.4 per cent per annum for the listed property trusts and the all ordinaries index respectively. Hence, on capital gain alone investment in farmland is a relatively attractive investment.
Although Carroll used national data, local ABARE farm survey data (e.g. ABARE, 2003) and Valuer-General data show that broadacre farms in Western Australia achieve average rates of capital appreciation typically between 3 to 7 per cent per annum. For example, the shires of Merredin, Moora, Perenjori, Narrogin, Kojonup, Dumbleyung and Esperance (Scadden zone) shown in Figure 2 have recorded compound growth rates in farmland values of 5.1, 6.1, 6.5, 3.2, 4.0, 4.2 and 5.9 per cent per annum respectively over the period 1985 to 2001.
Figure 2: Land values in key shires in the broadacre region of Western Australia: 1985 to 2001 ($/ha). (Source: Based on data supplied by the Office of the Valuer General.)
Although broadacre farming in Western Australia has been profitable for most businesses, there has been a slow but steady decline in the number of farm businesses operating (Figure 3). There are now around 6030 farm businesses in the broadacre (wheatbelt) region (ABARE, 2003). The bottom quartile of farm businesses are under sustained financial pressure and many of them will eventually leave the industry (Alexander, 2002). BankWest (2003) data show that the bottom quartile of broadacre farm businesses in Western Australia generated a rate of return to capital of -4.9 per cent per annum over the period 1998/9 to 2002/3. Average equity for this group was 82 per cent, so if they are forced to sell up, most have sufficient equity to ease the family’s transition.
Figure 3: Number of farm businesses in the broadacre region of Western Australia: 1989/90 to 2001/2. (Source: Based on ABARE farm survey data available on AgSurf.)
The other main driver of farm sales is a lack of family members seeking succession of the farm business.
The distribution of wealth and size of farms is highly skewed. Grain delivery data reveal that around 14 per cent of grain growers deliver over a third of the State’s grain and that a quarter of grain growers deliver over 54 per cent. Similarly, over the period 1997/8 to 1999/2000, WoolDesk data reveals that approximately 14 per cent of woolgrowers in Western Australia produced half of the State’s wool.
Increasing farm size increases the demands on farm management. So too do increases in the range of crop types, crop management methods and animal breeds now available. The resulting tendency is for farming systems and farm businesses to become more complex, requiring more sophisticated management or at least greater reliance on advisory services.
Most broadacre agricultural businesses engage in a portfolio of enterprises. There are number of factors that influence this diversity, and all of these will operate into the future.
The trend to increasing farm size tends to reinforce the last three of these factors in their influence on diversification.
Diversified farm businesses in Western Australia have proved resilient and profitable. Diversity has enabled businesses to cope with variation in climate and to capitalise on changes in the relative prices of agricultural commodities. It has enabled generations of farmers to be equipped with a range of management skills, created flexibility and supported entrepreneurial action. These positive outcomes are likely to continue and will encourage farm businesses in the future to remain mostly characterised by enterprise diversity.
Notwithstanding its size, success and focus on external markets, the region’s agricultural industry is only a minor contributor to world agriculture and commodity trade. The region produces less than 1 per cent of the world’s wheat, less than 6 per cent of the world’s apparel wool, and less than 1 per cent of most other major products such as sheep meat and canola. For this reason, farm businesses in the region may be able to exploit niche markets at times, but in general they will be be price-takers on international markets.
What will drive farm-level decisions?
Prices and costs
Prices for freely traded commodities are determined by the balance between international supply and demand. Globally, demand for agricultural products has risen steadily over time, reflecting increases in population and wealth but, in general, increases in supply have been even more pronounced, so that over the long term, the ratio of output prices to input costs has tended to fall (Figure 4). This phenomenon is variously referred to as the "cost-price squeeze", declining terms of trade since, or falling real output prices. The trend is a decline of around 2.2 per cent per annum.
There have at times been predictions that this long-term trend had run its course and would soon be reversed, but so far all such predictions have proven wrong. With moderation in world population growth now evident, continuing technological progress in developed countries (e.g. biotechnology), and evidence of improving agricultural productivity in many parts of the developing world, we judge that continuing declines in real prices of agricultural commodities over the next 30 years are likely. This creates an imperative for continuing productivity improvements (see next section) to ensure the ongoing economic health of broadacre farming.
If there are real price increases, they appear most likely to occur for meat products, in response to increasing demand in developing countries. For example, CIE (2001) predicts the following increases in meat prices by 2020: beef 72%, sheep 33%, pork 27%, poultry 6%.
Figure 4: Farmers’ terms of trade. Base year 1997-8 = 100. (Source: ABARE, 2003)
Apart from the general trend and fluctuations in different prices, in recent decades there have been several key changes in markets and marketing that will have an enduring impact on broadacre agriculture.
We identify the following main unknowns in the area of prices and costs over the next 30 years.
Yields, new technologies and productivity
Broadacre farmers in Western Australia have experienced particularly high levels of productivity growth in grain production compared with producers from many other regions, with average per grain farm productivity growth of 3.5 per cent per annum, over 21 years up to 1998-1999 (Ha and Chapman, 2000). By contrast sheep specialist, beef specialist and sheep-beef specialist farms recorded productivity annual productivity growth of only 0.6, 2.1 and 1.4 per cent over the same period.
Improvements in productivity may arise through technological advances, improvements in management and through exploiting economies of size. Major technical advances in the last two decades have included the following.
The crucial role that increasing productivity plays in the economic viability of agriculture is starkly illustrated in Figure 5. It shows that productivity growth in Western Australian agriculture has more than offset falls in real prices since 1953. Accumulated productivity improvements since 1953 now constitute most of the gross value of production for agriculture.
Figure 5: Gross value of agricultural production (GVP) in Western Australia, showing that portion due to accumulated productivity improvement. (Source: John Mullen, pers. comm., 2004, based on Mullen, 2002).
Among current efforts to develop agricultural innovations, those of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity appear particularly significant. If successful, they will initiate a significant shift towards the production systems based on new perennial plants (pastures, shrubs, trees and possibly grain crops), partly replacing existing annual plants which currently dominate agriculture. They will also provide improved options for production on salt-affected land, which is forecast to continue to increase in extent. How successful the CRC is in moderating productivity loss due to salinity remains to be seen.
Another prominent environmental concern is climate change. Change in rainfall has already been detected for south-west Western Australia (Foster, 2004). Forecast further changes (Foster, 2002) include the following.
Given the uncertainties of climate change, the precision of such predictions is necessarily low. In any case, the predicted onset of climate change is likely to be gradual, so incremental technological improvement and plant breeding improvements will lessen the severity of any negative impacts on agriculture.
Other key unknowns in this area over the next 25 years include the following.
We have discussed policy changes in relation to marketing bodies and a potential change in R&D funding. Another area where policy may change is in relation to environmental issues. There is a well-documented tendency for rising living standards to result in greater emphasis on environmental concerns, and this trend appears to be playing out in Australia, at least over the long term.
There is plenty in agriculture to concern those who are sensitive to the environment, including:
Efforts to enhance the environmental performance of agriculture through the National Landcare Program, the Natural Heritage Trust and the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality have been criticised on various grounds, including their failure to deal effectively with the more substantial of the above issues. One can easily imagine social and political pressures for a further raising of the environmental standards expected of agriculture. Resulting policy tools, whether positive (subsidy based) or negative (penalty based), if substantial enough, could play a major role in shaping future agriculture.
On the other hand, the cost of dealing comprehensively with the above set of environmental issue would be many times greater than the public funds currently available through the main policy programs. It may be that public funds continue to play a marginal role in protecting or enhancing the rural environment. We would not be surprised to observe this. We also do not expect a dramatic increase in environmental regulation governing agriculture. The economic and social costs to rural areas would be so high that the political costs seem likely to outweigh the political benefits.
Personal and family goals
A number of factors have contributed to the exodus of families (both farming and non-farming) from rural areas. Most farm businesses continue to be owned and operated by farm families. However, farm families have needed to make decisions from which they hoped to benefit financially. Among these decisions have been those involved adoption of labour-saving technologies and increases in farm size that together have reduced opportunities for on-farm employment and reduced the number of farm families. Further, the dominance of agriculture in the broadacre region has meant limited employment opportunities outside of agriculture in the region.
Rationalisation of government services in rural regions has further lessened employment opportunities, and this, combined with the decline in agricultural employment, has fuelled de-population pressures in many inland rural areas of Western Australia. For example, on the national scale, total employment in small inland towns dependent on agriculture declined by 7 per cent from 1986 to 1996 (Garnaut et al., 2001).
Other factors contributing to the exodus of labour from rural areas include:
Countering the social, economic and government policy pressures that encourage depopulation is extremely difficult. Attempts to reverse a local decline can often be at the expense of some other adjacent region.
One observable trend is for some farm families to reside in metropolitan areas or large coastal regional centres, with the farm manager commuting to the farm for only part of each week. Perhaps this trend will increase if inland rural areas continue to become less attractive places for families to live.
A further consequence of lower rural populations is likely to be even greater difficulty in delivering environmental outcomes that are not closely linked to production benefits. The traditional reliance on voluntary contributions to environmental protection is less tenable as the resident population falls.
After examining the views of various futurists and findings of management studies (e.g. Coates et al., 1998; Karpin, 1995; Coopers and Lybrand, 1995a, 1995b; Kohl, 2001), Kingwell (2002) concluded that in coming decades broadacre farming is likely to become characterised by:
The combination of high equity of many farm businesses, smaller family size, family break-up pressures and more investment choices outside the business, means a fine balance will have to be maintained regarding the financial and social viability of the farm business. Tensions between the achievement of financial and social goals will prompt some farmers to leave the industry. Others will adapt in an attempt to achieve both ends (e.g. fly-in-fly-out farm management).
Future farm management may depend to an increasing extent on sophisticated information technology. However, on the basis of history, we suggest that change in this direction will not be as great as some expect. As Malcolm (2000, p. 40) observes: 'A glance through history suggests that in the most important ways, the fundamental elements of managing a farm has altered little.' Successful farm management will continue to be dependent largely on good decisions about the farm's enterprise mix, machinery replacement, land leasing or purchase, labour hiring and off-farm investments.
Implications for R&D
We suggest that the foregoing discussion has the following key implications for agricultural R&D in Western Australia.
Sincere thanks to John Mullen for providing Figure 5.
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David Pannell home page | agronomy |
http://paintbytes.blogspot.com/2012/05/liquid-gold.html | 2018-05-27T15:24:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794869272.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527151021-20180527171021-00298.warc.gz | 0.956006 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__146528457 | en | Rapeseed is BIG money now in the UK and Ireland and many of the local farmers seem to be growing it in preference to all other crops. Leaving aside its visual beauty, the crop has other far less attractive impacts, as those amongst us that suffer with hayfever will tell you only too well! Additionally, after the crop is harvested. our homes and gardens are usually infested with swarms of tiny homeless insects (we call them thunderfly) that often decide to take up residence in the oddest of places; it is not unusual to see them under the cover glass of paintings and photographs and even under the seams of wallpaper!
This 10-15 minute watercolour was developed from a sketch I did in pastel pencil recently whilst on a local bus route that passes alongside fields of rapeseed. The stark yellow of the field is punctuated by the swathes of green from the growth below and heightened by the dulled ultramarine blue of a blustery Cambridgeshire sky above. The small roundish trees and hedgerow of the field boundary are dwarfed by the distant line of giant poplar trees of a neighbouring field, planted by farmers as a frail windbreak against the cold, brisk winds that blow almost totally unhindered across this flattest of lands from the North Sea.
|Liquid Gold, watercolour and watercolour pencil on Langton 140lb Rough, A4| | agronomy |
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Watering a container garden is extra artwork than science. Most plants like to be kept in soil that is moist and damp, though not moist.
The develop-pot might be hidden by the outer planter, and your plant will seem like it’s directly planted. If you go this route, be sure to drain any excess water from the outer planter to assist forestall root rot. Plastic pot with drainage holesWhen your pots have holes within the backside, you can also gauge whether you’ve watered them sufficient by ready for water to come out of the underside. When the pot doesn’t have holes you may not know till a layer of water collects on high of the soil.
It's better if the planted pot just isn't a comfortable fit in opposition to the lip of the container pot as a result of you must have room to tug it out. Also, I've found it creates a hiding place and surroundings for a sort of frog we've that can cling to the inside with suction toes. FWIW, I have a group of blue and white Chinese porcelain, some antique and really useful and lots of cheap modern reproductions, that every one my houseplants reside in. None of the antiques have drainage holes and a lot of the fashionable repros don't as properly.
I use an excellent high quality potting soil (but not prime), leave a few concept of where to buy succulents online it within the pots over winter and complement it with new soil within the spring. My crops have always grown very well, never got too wet. I couldn’t discover the soil that I normally bought, so I got some that was fairly inexpensive, but it was a measurement I could carry. There had been sticks and exhausting dirt balls in it; I used it but returned what was left in addition to an unopened package deal of it to the backyard heart. I’m waiting for mums to come on the market for fall and will first exchange ALL the soil after which mums will substitute the scraggly geraniums, begonias, gerbera daisies and impatiens.
They can be used forever (although several moves made it needed for me to toss the stones). One year I made small balls of aluminum foil, and that labored fine.
The key to crops’ survival is in your watering strategies. Allow crops to dry out in between waterings and really feel the soil for moisture. The prime inch of the soil needs to really feel dry to the touch before you water. Remember that extra water can't drain out of the holes so go easy on watering. As you can see, there's positively some determination making that goes into making the only option of containers for your plants!
Using a syringe, a spray bottle, or squeeze bottle will assist control the quantity of water you place into the containers. When utilizing a spray bottle, ensure to spray the soil or medium instead of simply the top of the plant. You want the water to get to the roots where it is absorbed by the plant and not just mist the plant from the floor. Watering frequency additionally depends on the rising season and dimension of your container.
All of my houseplants are planted into nondescript but very practical, correctly draining containers which might be then slipped into decorative pots for show. This protects any wood surfaces from moisture or water oozing from the bottom yet allows the vegetation to be eliminated simply to drain the surplus water from the cache pot. Or taken to the kitchen sink to be watered completely and directly.
Planters with no holes might not good for outside crops. When it rains, the soil will be soggy therefore leading to demise of the plant. However not all plants can survive in containers with out drainage holes.
Soil may be changed, however broken roots cannot be repaired. Also, be sure to by no means place containers with insufficient drainage outdoor, as you won't be able to manage the quantity of rainwater they may obtain. These containers are finest suited to indoor gardens.
As lengthy because the soil isn't completely saturated there should be enough air in there for the roots to breathe. It allows water within the soil to drain freely so adequate air is out there for the roots. Shoreline vegetation love wet soil, so if the pot does not drain, consider using them. See the water gardening part for extra info. The high section of a self-watering planter is often in your potting combine and vegetation, while the bottom contains the water reservoir.
Personally, I hold all of my succulents, cacti, snake plants, ZZ vegetation, and ficus bushes in terra cotta as a result of they do nicely when the soil is allowed to dry out between waterings. I also use terra cotta when I'm rehabbing a plant that's affected by root rot. Many of my moisture-loving plants like calathea species and ferns stay in plastic pots, and so do my crops which might be in cache vegetation. If you want to use a pot without drainage holes for decorative functions, use it as a cachepot, which holds the pot the plant is growing in. Slip a sensible plastic or terra cotta pot into a fairly container.
Interestingly, my patio tomato plant appears to like the dangerous soil; it’s producing properly. These enable excess water to run via and promotes higher air circulation. While you may make pots with out drainage work, it requires very cautious watering to not drown your plant, which is why all these high picks have them (even the hanging planters). A few of the most ornamental pots have no drainage holes. Knowing how a lot to water plants in these pots is tough and requires way more talent than watering vegetation in traditional pots does.
This approach is also referred to as double potting. A cachepot doesn't want drainage holes, although it ought to be giant enough to accommodate a saucer that matches the rising pot. "Cache potting" or double potting is a tried and true methodology to ensure your plant can maintain correct moisture ranges without water leaking onto your furnishings.
And it’s positively simpler to repot a plant that’s in a squishy plastic container than planted instantly into an irregularly shapes terracotta or ceramic pot. Nevertheless, I’m responsible of planting a few of my houseplants into pots without drainage holes. Here I’ll discuss what you should think about if it’s something you’re contemplating, or one thing you’ve carried out (I hope it’s not just me…). Even with the best possible setup, standing water in a container can stagnate and trigger the roots of the plants inside to get too wet. It’s not a foul idea to dump that water out every so often as defined above, even if you lose slightly bit of soil in the course of.
I even have an assortment of crops in pots with out drainage holes. I add a layer of pebbles to the underside of the pot and water fastidiously. The pebble layer provides any extra water a spot to go so the plant doesn't drown.
And after all, if not one of the methods illustrated right here solve your problems, don’t hesitate to repot your plant into a container with correct drainage. The reply is probably that pots with out drainage holes do require a special planting approach and a very gentle contact with the watering can. I have not used this for indoor plants but this would work indoors. For outside I purchased some varied dimension ceramic pots figuring out that none had drainage holes. I took outdated plastic pots that fitted inside and planted in them.
Still, many indoor gardeners use these beautiful pots with nice success by carefully avoiding overwatering. Before you drill although, take a greater take a look at the plant. Some plants (especially orchids) that look like growing in a pot with no drainage hole are literally double-potted. There is a plastic insert, or develop pot, withdrainage holes inside the decorative container.
Look for a planter with a water reservoir that’s massive enough to supply sufficient moisture for the quantity of potting combine in the container above and that you simply won’t should fill every single day. For most crops in a self-watering container like the proper planter, you'll want to use a loose soil that permits for correct drainage in order to stop root-rot.
Find a plastic develop-pot with drainage holes that’s a bit smaller than your planter. Simply plant your foliage or flowers in the develop-pot, and place it into your chosen planter.
For example, transfer it from a four″ to a 6″ measurement, however not up to a ten″ size. I additionally advocate using a pot that has drainage holes, as a result of it helps prevent overwatering.
That if you're using a pot with out drainage, you must use a plastic pot with holes and then put that within the decorative pot. It makes sense-you want the surplus water to have the ability to escape.
Reservoirs range in dimension, typically in proportion to the general dimension of the container. In bigger containers, it’s common to have a 5-gallon reservoir, while smaller planters could have only a 1-gallon capability (and even less).
Usually a mix of sandy soil and potting soil will work for almost all of houseplants, so long as they get appropriate mild and are kept away from freezing temperatures. Be positive to research your specific plant kind to verify, nonetheless, as some wants might range. Choose a excessive-high quality potting soil for your planter box; don’t use garden soil.
Then I took small rocks and put them within the bottom of every pot without holes. Next I used no matter pots I may discover to place the wrong way up within the backside of each ceramic pot for use as stands for the planted pots. The main factor is to have something your planted pot can sit on, raised up in the fancy pot. After a heavy rain I actually have to make sure the water doesn't collect in the bottom. The planted pot won't get soggy however sitting water will turn out to be a breeding space for mosquitoes in a short while.
In different words, the outer container is actually a cache-pot. That changes everything… so long as you understand what to do.
Potting soil is sterile, free from weed seeds and ailments and blended with a fabric similar to pumice or perlite to provide good drainage. If you propose to alter the planter box's plant arrangement for the seasons, then you'll be able to merely place potted annuals in the planter box and canopy their pots' edges with potting soil. Filling a tall planter field with nothing but potting soil can be costly. Use materials that gained’t break down, or decompose, over the growing season, and allow the remainder of the planter field to offer sufficient soil depth for the roots of the plants you choose. When repotting houseplants, choose a new container that’s only one measurement bigger than the original.
During the dry season or growing season, plants need more water. During the inactive rising season or when it’s cooler, water much less frequently. Where I stay, the local weather is very dry so I water approximately each 7-10 days in the summer and I minimize down on watering to between days or longer during the colder months. If you live in a local weather with high humidity, you do not need to water as much. If you could have containers with out drainage holes in them, you should pay further care and a spotlight when watering your succulents.
But when you have soil that isn’t absorbing water well, you could have water operating out of the bottom whereas the plant’s roots are nonetheless dry. But you can also water a plant like that by standing it in water until the soil is wet after which removing it to let it drain. I’ve always heard that pots ought to have drainage holes. | agronomy |
http://agribridge.in/index.html | 2019-10-18T06:27:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986677964.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018055014-20191018082514-00090.warc.gz | 0.914603 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__205405912 | en | Agribridge is a farmer friendly eco-system created through collaboration by leveraging technology. It is a holistic approach to empower rural India through Industry, Knowledge, Technology and innovations. This collaborative Eco-System includes Technology interventions from various start-ups, Knowledge and Resources from Institutions and Academia, Communities of Farmers across the Country.
As part of tripartite agreement between Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Western Sydney University (WSU) Australia and River Bridge Ventures, India had decided to develop “Gyan Kisan” app
There was a two day brain storming workshop on Digital Knowledge Ecosystem for Agribusiness. The Gyan Kisan app will provide knowledge to the farmers on several farms related issues.
GyanKisan is an Application which delivers scientific knowledge as context specific actionable knowledge to the farming community via a mobile system and thereby empowering them with the right knowledge at the right time. It Enables all Agri stakeholders to effectively optimise and coordinate their offerings based on both published knowledge and real-time information generated by aggregating farmer actions and transactions. | agronomy |
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Customizing irrigation for optimal lawn health is a proactive approach that ensures your grass receives the right amount of water at the right time.
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A beautiful and healthy lawn is the pride of any homeowner. Achieving lush green grass requires more than just regular mowing and fertilization; proper irrigation plays a crucial role as well. By customizing your irrigation system to meet the specific needs of your lawn, you can optimize water usage, prevent water wastage, and promote the healthiest possible turf. In this blog post, we will explore some essential tips and strategies for customizing your irrigation practices to ensure optimal lawn health.
Understand Your Lawn's Watering Needs
Every lawn is unique, and different grass types have varying watering requirements. Understanding the specific needs of your grass is the first step towards customizing your irrigation system. Research the type of grass you have and determine its ideal watering frequency, depth, and duration.
Factors such as climate, soil type, and sun exposure should also be considered when evaluating your lawn's watering needs. With the help of experts like EZ Lawn Sprinklers, you can optimize water usage, prevent water wastage, and promote the healthiest possible turf.
Conduct a Soil Analysis
Before customizing your irrigation system, it is essential to assess the soil conditions in your lawn. A soil analysis can provide valuable information about the soil's composition, drainage capacity, and moisture retention capabilities. By understanding your soil's characteristics, you can make informed decisions about irrigation frequency, watering intervals, and the amount of water your lawn requires to maintain optimal health.
Zone Your Lawn
One-size-fits-all watering approaches often lead to water waste and uneven distribution. To optimize your irrigation system, consider dividing your lawn into different zones based on factors such as sun exposure, soil type, and plant water requirements. By zoning your lawn, you can adjust watering schedules and durations for each area, ensuring that water is delivered precisely where and when it is needed.
Invest in Smart Irrigation Technology
Modern advancements in irrigation technology have made it easier than ever to customize watering for your lawn's specific needs. Consider installing a smart irrigation system that utilizes sensors, weather data, and automated controls to adjust watering schedules based on real-time conditions. These systems can optimize water usage, prevent overwatering, and adapt to changes in weather patterns, ultimately promoting healthier and more sustainable turf.
Timing Is Key
To maximize the effectiveness of your irrigation, it is crucial to water your lawn at the right time of day. Early morning, typically before 10 a.m., is the optimal time for watering. During this time, temperatures are cooler, and there is less wind, which allows for better water absorption and minimizes evaporation. Avoid watering in the evening or at night, as extended periods of moisture on the grass can increase the risk of fungal diseases.
Monitor and Adjust
Customizing your irrigation system is not a one-time task. Regular monitoring and adjustment are essential to ensure that your lawn's watering needs are consistently met. Observe your lawn for signs of overwatering or underwatering, such as yellowing grass, fungus growth, or excessive thatch. Based on these observations, fine-tune your irrigation schedule and make necessary adjustments to address any issues.
Customizing irrigation for optimal lawn health is a proactive approach that ensures your grass receives the right amount of water at the right time. By understanding your lawn's unique requirements, zoning different areas, utilizing smart irrigation technology, and monitoring your system regularly, you can achieve a vibrant and thriving lawn while conserving water and promoting sustainability.
Remember, a healthy lawn not only enhances the beauty of your property but also provides a space for relaxation and enjoyment for you and your family. So, invest the time and effort in customizing your irrigation practices, and reap the rewards of a stunning and resilient lawn throughout the year.
Discover your dream home in German Village, OH. | agronomy |
https://www.sim.org/es/-/sim-ethiopia-5f-agriculture-project | 2024-03-01T13:08:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475311.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301125520-20240301155520-00097.warc.gz | 0.924876 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__156160500 | en | SIM Ethiopia 5F Agriculture Project
By Tim Coleman | Ethiopia in East Africa
The 5F's agriculture project is located in the Awi region of Northern Ethiopia. Central to the Awi people is the Awi language, agriculture works, and the Orthodox religion.
Over decades of living life together and bringing about improved agriculture practices, trusting relationships between SIM and the Awi people have been built.
This video story gives an insight to the Awi people and SIM workers living in the area. | agronomy |
https://loriseaborg.com/spring-on-the-gulf-coast/ | 2023-12-06T14:49:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100599.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206130723-20231206160723-00443.warc.gz | 0.892308 | 641 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__70712317 | en | Spring is certainly here on the Gulf Coast!
Azaleas, Camellias, Bridal’s Wreath, Bradford Pear, and so many more that the colors are just dazzling. Our azaleas on the Gulf Coast are particularly lovely this year. It is as if the entire county has brightened considerably in the past couple of weeks.
Eggs, eggs, eggs…in the doghouse, behind the doghouse, in the woods, and in the chicken pen (where they all should be laying!). Green ones, pink ones, bluish ones, and brown ones. Wish I could give you some!
Local Alabama Produce:
Strawberries, fresh off the local farm — and at only $8.99/flat (but I first paid another farmers’ market $12.99/flat before I found that better price — ah, well)
Fresh local spinach at $2.49 for a huge bag of it (we use fresh spinach as our lettuce – shh, the kids don’t know you’re supposed to have anything else)
Almost Local Florida produce:
A whole box of “canning tomatoes” (they call it that when they have a slight blemish on them) for just $4.49 for the entire box (just over 20 lbs.)
A big bag of slightly blemished pickling cucumbers for $0.99
A big bag of slightly ugly yellow squash for $0.99
Almost Local Georgia produce:
Vidalia onion greens — mmm! $1.49 for a bunch of 4-6 big onions with long greens
Ugh….The apples weren’t a great price at $1.29/lb. for Fuji’s, but we can’t grow everything down here! And I don’t know where the $0.99/lb. green grapes came from.
In My Garden:
The onions are about 6″ tall; carrots are about 2″; radishes are doing well; the mustard greens are being eaten by my chickens before they can grow; early peas are about 4″ tall; can’t remember where the beets are, but I think I planted some!
The watermelons are sprouting; I planted cantaloupe, yellow squash, zucchini, and bush beans a few days ago.
From the Burris Farm Market in Loxley, Alabama:
A recipe I am going to try tomorrow.
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 eggs, beaten
1-1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 cup chopped pecans
2-1/2 cups chopped Burris Grown Strawberries (or, your local ones!)
Combine the first 5 ingredients and mix. Combine the remaining 4 ingredients and add to the dry mixture, stirring well. Spoon into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake at 350F for 1 hour.
by Lori Seaborg | agronomy |
https://gistnaija.ng/2019/08/28/nigerian-customs-seize-baskets-of-tomatoes-from-traders-in-ogun-state-and-auction-them-for-n200/ | 2020-05-26T11:52:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347390758.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526112939-20200526142939-00509.warc.gz | 0.975238 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__192950471 | en | Members of the Fruits and Vegetables Growers and Marketers association of Nigeria staged a protest against the Nigerian Customs Service in Ogun State.
The farmers said that the men of Nigerian Customs stormed the market and seized over 2,000 baskets of tomatoes, the tomatoes were planted and harvested in Ijoun, Yew a-North Local Government Area of the State.
“They are now auctioning it at their head office. They said it was a Federal Government’s directive that the Customs should impound tomatoes and peppers planted in Nigeria. Our goods are not imported at all. They were planted here in Nigeria. Our produce were impounded in Ijoun. We have been to the customs office where it was confirmed to us that our produce were being auctioned at N200 per basket” The state Chairman of the association, Timothy Eweoba.
According to political commentators and activists, the politics of this particular seizure is aimed at refusing western grown tomatoes access to markets where north grown tomatoes are sold – this is all in a bid to kill the competition while allowing only tomatoes grown upnorth access in southern markets. | agronomy |
https://vietnamentrepreneurs.com/market-briefing-dried-fruit-and-nuts-11-dec/ | 2022-11-28T08:57:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710488.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20221128070816-20221128100816-00051.warc.gz | 0.899224 | 660 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__197299317 | en | Market Briefing: Dried Fruit and Nuts – 11 Dec
– 44% fall in Iran’s pistachio production
– 19% increase in Japan’s shelled macadamia purchases
– Chile’s walnut prices stabilised at high levels
– Iran’s 2021 pistachio crop fell by 44% y/y to 135,000 tonnes due to severe drought.
– Peanut planting continues in Argentina. Reports indicate that 90% of the planting is completed with good germination, and the crop is expected to move forward without any hindrances, covering around 410,000 hectares.
– Portugal’s 2021 chestnut production has been forecast at 50,000 tonnes, 20% more y/y, thanks to favourable rains and low temperatures between Q3-Q4.
– Demand for macadamias is high, especially in the Asian markets, although logistical issues are halting shipments and slowing the consumption recovery. Japanese and Chinese kernel purchases have risen by 19% y/y and 15%, respectively to 2,890 and 3,520 tonnes in September 2020-August 2021. Meanwhile, the EU purchases were stagnant y/y at 9,500 tonnes and the US fell by 21% to 8,200 tonnes due to the combination of sea shipping fares and a large crop in Hawaii.
– The 2021-22 global date consumption is likely to grow by 10% y/y to 1,485,000 tonnes thanks mainly to high demand from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
– Australia’s almond shipments reached 9,780 kernel weight equivalence (KWE) tonnes this September, 6.2% more y/y, bringing seasonal sales (March-September) to 63,250 tonnes (+34% y/y).
– Chile’s walnut exports reached 13,650 in-shell equivalent tonnes in October 2021, 12% more y/y. Seasonal (21 March-31 October) shipments totalled 132,570 tonnes, 17% more.
– Turkey’s dried fig exports reached 6,320 tonnes in the week ending on 4 December, 20% more y/y, bringing seasonal sales (6 October-4 December 2021) to 24,730 tonnes valued at $100 million, 7% less y/y in volume and value. The 2020-21 season closed with 71,900 tonnes, worth $256 million, 4% less y/y in volume and value.
– Trading sources quoted the following prices for Chilean shelled walnuts in November:
LHP40: $8.20-8.40/kg, stagnant m/m
Large pieces: $7.30-7.40/kg, stagnant m/m
– Turkey’s weekly dried fig fob prices in the week ending on 4 December were:
Whole dried figs, $4,511/tonne, 4% less m/m
Cut dried figs, $2,984/tonne, 12% less m/m
Paste, $1,424/tonne, 16% more m/m | agronomy |
http://www.foster-caviness.com/friends_of_farmers.php | 2013-05-21T16:42:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700212265/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103012-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938218 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__1238734 | en | Friends of Farmers™ Local Produce Program
Foster-Caviness believes that a strong local growing community means a higher quality product to our various market partners. That was the idea behind our Friends of Farmers™ program - to establish relationships between our local produce Farmers and the finest Chefs in the area by providing our expertise in vendor screening, food safety, and logistics. The end result is a supply of fresh, seasonal produce that not only helps our customers deliver deliciously fresh food, but also helps our community at large grow into a more prosperous, agricultural region.
If you would like to receive Local Produce Listings by email, please click here.
Featured Farmer - Deal Apple Orchards - Taylorsville, NC
To find out how to order some of these delicious produce, call Foster-Caviness at 1-800-289-8344, or contact us by email here.
Pro*Act Provides Guidance to Ensure Safe Practices for Locally Grown Produce
Demand by foodservice operator for local produce is growing fast, but so are questions about how to ensure its safety. To that end, Pro*Act, America’s leading distributor of fresh produce to the foodservice industry, has published tow new guidance documents to increase understanding and use of proper food-safety standards and procedures in the burgeoning business.
To read more about this click on the PDF below.
The Produce Lady
The Produce Lady program teaches farmers and consumers the wonders of locally grown fruits and vegetables. The program shares information on how to select, store, prepare and preserve fresh produce and other farm products as tasty meals and snacks.
The Produce Lady program works with and supports numerous organizations and efforts that share our common goal of teaching the citizens of North Carolina about the availability of fresh, local foods and the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. | agronomy |
http://mochickadee.blogspot.com/2013/05/birdwatching-in-arizona-final-entry.html | 2018-07-18T02:37:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590046.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718021906-20180718041906-00115.warc.gz | 0.949428 | 821 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__62228481 | en | Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is the largest cactus in the United States. This plant can live 150 - 200 years, but will not be mature enough to bloom until they are at least 30 - 40 years old. To say saguaro is a slow growing plant is somewhat of an understatement. But growth rate is linked to yearly rainfall. In the Tucson Mountains, located just west of Tucson, the annual rainfall averages 14 inches, a saguaro takes about 10 years to attain 1¼ - ½ inches in height and 30 years to reach 2 feet. Saguaros begin to flower at about 8 feet tall, which takes about 55 years. The saguaros found in Saguaro National Park, located in Tucson, only take 40 years to bloom. The rainfall in that National Park averages 16 inches each year. The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Ajo, Arizona, receives only 9 inches of annual rainfall and takes 75 years for the Saguaro to bloom. But when all is said and done growing, a saguaro will reach 40 - 60 feet in height.
A saguaro can produce up to 40 million seeds, but as with all forms of organic life, it is only considered successful if one plant grows to replace its parent. The saguaro creates white flowers on top in the spring with peak bloom time being mid-May through mid-June. Nighttime blooming, the strong fragrance emitted during the twilight hours and the copious amounts of pollen and nectar produced make the saguaro flowers especially enticing to bats. In fact, bats are the primary pollinators and seed dispersers of the saguaro. The flowers bear fruit during the summer months, up to 2000 seeds per fruit, and White-winged Doves, rodents, javelinas, and coyotes eat the fruit and distribute the seed.
A seedling requires summer rain in order to sprout followed by 2 - 3 years of seasonal rain to survive. These tiny cacti usually grow under a canopy of plants that shelters them from the elements and hides them from foraging rodents, rabbits and birds. Saguaro in general cannot tolerate more than a day of freezing temperatures and will not grow in regions that receive less than 2 inches of summer rain. This explains why a "forest" of saguaro appear to all be the same size. Some scientists believe that a good crop of saguaro may only come a few times in the time span of 100 years.
During a year of good rainfall, an adult saguaro can weigh 3200 - 4800 pounds. Ribs, located under the green, waxy exterior, can expand and contract depending on water intake. The main root (the tap root) will extend down over 2 feet. The plant's remaining roots are fairly close to the surface, 4 - 6 inches deep but will radiate out as far from the plant as it is tall. During a rainy season, the saguaro will send out new roots, known as rain roots, and collect as much water as possible.
As with the rest of the plant, the arms of a saguaro are slow growing, taking at least 5 years to grow 6 inches. The arms store water, provide extra surface area for photosynthesis, and acts as a good nesting place for some bird species, especially cactus wrens.
|Cactus wren between the 2 arms that are in front.|
|Closeup of a Cactus Wren nest.|
The bulky part of the saguaro protects the plant from extreme temperatures. The heat absorbed during the day is stored within the interior tissue and radiates the heat out slowly during the night. This also protects the plant during the rare times the temperatures drop to freezing during the night. What an amazing plant. How could someone not love the saguaro?
This is the last of my Arizona entries, but stay tuned; I will be headed to Seattle and Nome Alaska in a few weeks. | agronomy |
https://rebelroasters.com.au/2020/08/17/natural-coffee/ | 2022-05-20T00:15:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662530553.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519235259-20220520025259-00561.warc.gz | 0.961799 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__64278325 | en | Natural coffee processing, also referred to as the dry process, is coffee processing at it’s simplest form. Typically presenting more unique flavours, heavier body, and less acidity in the cup.
Rather than separating the beans from the cherries, coffee cherries are kept intact for the duration of the drying process. This allows for the bean to absorb flavours produced from the fruit, mucilage, and parchment layers.
During this time the beans are raked or rotated periodically throughout the day, they are then covered at night or when there is wet weather.
There is little investment required in terms of infrastructure however this process relies heavily on having appropriate climatic conditions to avoid the risk of mould etc.
Because of the largely human involvement, compared to the more mechanical processes such as washed, natural process comes with high risk of destroying a batch. There is also potential for the beans to be uneven with their flavour profile.
Having said that, natural process coffee that has received the right level of attention to detail is often ridiculously good! A prime example of that is from producer Guilherme Franco, who consistently produces lot after lot spectacular naturals. | agronomy |
http://prairie.cc/ultrasweet.php | 2019-09-17T22:58:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573124.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917223332-20190918005332-00018.warc.gz | 0.871894 | 76 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__96805298 | en | Ultra Sweet is an affordable, liquid energy boost for plants! This biological rebuilds, encourages and fuels microbial activity in the soil. It also adds specially cultured microbes to the soil, which are dormant until application. Ultra Sweet contains complex carbohydrates and enzyme packs that feed the beneficial microbes.
Salt content = 0.3%.
Contains complex carbohydrates in the form of cane molasses | agronomy |
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/california-historic-floods-farms-aquifer-recharge/ | 2024-04-12T15:23:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816024.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412132154-20240412162154-00657.warc.gz | 0.963749 | 2,334 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__71390974 | en | Waterline is an ongoing series of stories exploring the intersection of water, climate and food, told through the eyes of the people impacted by these issues. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
As an onslaught of storms soaked California with record-breaking rain last winter, Christine Gemperle found herself crisscrossing her almond orchards in knee-high muck boots and a slicker. She was out in the driving rain doing exactly what many farmers were trying to prevent: opening her irrigation gates and letting the flood rush into her orchards.
She left the gates open until the stormwater pooled three or four inches deep in ditches between her rows of almond trees. A few days later, the water had vanished, having seeped into the sandy soil, at which point Gemperle would open the gates again, repeating the process.
Each time she did so, the vital aquifer deep below her farmland filled up more and more.
“I was just able to put [the water] on [the field] and it went down, put it on again and it went down,” she says.
For generations, during dry periods, California farmers have pumped water from deep underground to keep their crops hydrated when surface water supplies are scarce. Gemperle is no exception. Like many of her fellow farmers in California’s agricultural Central Valley, in dry years she turns to underground aquifers to irrigate the 135-acre almond farm she runs with her brother in Turlock.
These dry years are becoming more frequent –– the megadrought in the American West has made the past 22 years that region’s driest in at least 12 centuries. With less rain, farmers increasingly lean on the state’s aquifers to make up the difference. As a result, between 2003 and 2021, the Central Valley’s supply of groundwater diminished by the equivalent of 1.4 times the capacity of the country’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead.
But if farmers are the biggest takers of California’s dwindling groundwater supply, they are also becoming critical players in filling those aquifers back up. This year, Gemperle Orchards joined a growing number of farms helping to replenish overdrawn aquifers by flooding their orchards and fields with excess stormwater during wet seasons and letting it soak into the ground.
“We’re going to treat this [aquifer] like a bank,” says Gemperle, who’d seen research about the on-farm groundwater recharge method through her role as a member of the Almond Board of California. “Every year that I can put [water] in, I’m going to put in. And then every year that I need, as emergency backup, to take out, I’m going to take out. But I’m going to … watch what I take out to make sure it balances about what I can put in during the wet years.”
Protecting the Central Valley’s water supply is a matter of national concern. The 400-mile-long region, framed by rugged coastal mountains to the west and the snow-capped Sierra Nevada range to the east, produces about a quarter of all the food consumed in the US. But weather trends have made water access unpredictable. Periods of intense precipitation and flooding punctuate long droughts. Between 2019 and 2021 the region’s groundwater stores declined sharply, at a rate 31 percent faster than in previous droughts.
As aquifers dry up, the ground is literally falling beneath Californians’ feet. In parts of the Central Valley, the land subsides at an astonishing rate of about one foot per year, damaging infrastructure like bridges and rupturing canals that bring surface water to communities and farms.
Faced with this looming groundwater crisis, in 2014 California took action by passing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which establishes local water authorities to manage groundwater usage. The landmark legislation laid the groundwork for stabilizing aquifers by empowering the local authorities not only to regulate how much groundwater is extracted, but also to look for opportunities to replenish aquifers in years with lots of precipitation –– years exactly like 2023.
The role of farms in recharging aquifers during particularly wet years began with a bold experiment set in motion by one Central Valley farmer a decade ago.
Don Cameron noticed that the groundwater levels on Terranova Ranch, where he is vice president and general manager, in Helm, California, were dropping by a foot or more each year. So, during the wet winter of 2011, when the wine grape vines were dormant and the regions’ rivers were running high, Cameron inundated the vineyard. “Our neighbors thought we were pretty crazy to do that,” he says. “They thought we were going to kill [our crops].”
But Cameron was confident the vines could handle it — he’d seen grapes survive in high waters before. Sure enough, the vines were unharmed. And that summer, his groundwater levels were higher.
He’s repeated the process in every rainy year since, including this one. Since March, Terranova has been flooding vineyards, pistachio orchards and 350 acres of additional farmland with stormwater. The water got up to three and a half feet deep, which killed about 50 pistachio trees. But by the end of June, the farm had absorbed enough water to cover 15,000 acres a foot deep (a measurement called acre feet), and groundwater levels were rising. “I’m optimistic that we’ll see a rise as we move into the later summer and fall,” says the veteran farmer, preparing for a stretch of scorching 110-degree days.
Even before the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was passed, many districts in California already had aquifer recharge basins, like ponds dedicated to letting water soak into the ground. But using farmland allows water to sink in across a much broader land area. While the idea gained steam, some irrigation districts jumped in to set up systems to engage local farms.
Then came the massive precipitation of the winter of 2023.
Over the last decade, Tulare Irrigation District has invited growers to take on water during wet seasons. Initially, many weren’t interested, says district manager Aaron Fukuda. Winter is a rare quieter time for busy farmers, and managing wet fields during those down months means extra work.
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This year, though, growers in the region had a new incentive. At the peak of drought in May 2022, concern about groundwater levels led the groundwater sustainability agency that oversees Tulare to set limits on pumping. The system, which includes an online tracking dashboard, also works in the reverse: if farms take on excess water in wet seasons to recharge the aquifer, they earn credit to extract additional water from that aquifer later.
The opportunity to treat the aquifer like a savings account — with not just water deposits, but withdrawals, too — changed everything. The timing couldn’t have been better. Historic rainfall inundated the Central Valley starting in December. When growers were invited in January to start running water through their irrigation systems to their fields, they jumped at the chance, Fukuda says. “The day we opened up the phone line we had 80 orders before lunch.”
The efforts are paying off. In some wells, water levels are measuring 15 to 20 feet higher than before this wet season. Fukuda believes that by pairing wet-year recharge with management of pumping, the district can minimize the need to leave farmland fallow.
California state officials preliminarily estimate a total of at least 3.8 million acre feet have been recharged across the state this year, including both on-farm and other efforts, though more data will be confirmed next year.
Amid this winter’s deluge, Sustainable Conservation — which has been supporting on-farm recharge — heard from many other districts interested in implementing the approach in their areas.
“This has really been the catalytic year,” Mountjoy says.
In addition to helping to stabilize groundwater stores, the practice has promise to help mitigate subsidence, according to Mountjoy. Though aquifer recharge won’t raise ground that has already sunk, Mountjoy says, it may be able to stop it from sinking further. It can also help with flood mitigation, diverting some high waters away from rivers and reducing the impact of inundation to communities downstream.
The method essentially leverages farmland to address an existential problem in California: When you receive too much water, how do you not only manage the flooding, but also store that water for future years when you don’t get enough?
“You need recharge basins and on-farm recharge to capture the big gulps in years like this,” Mountjoy says.
While on-farm aquifer recharge is gaining popularity, on its own the practice will not be enough to completely address the region’s groundwater overdraft. Researchers estimate that up to 25 percent of the San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater depletion can be addressed by returning water to the ground.
Recharging aquifers and then continuing to use water at the same rate is “a risky bet,” notes Hannah Waterhouse of University of California Santa Cruz, a soil biochemist who has studied on-farm recharge.
“There needs to be decreases in pumping,” Waterhouse says. “That has to be a part of the story.”
Using farmland to replenish aquifers also raises questions about implications for groundwater quality, according to Waterhouse. As water trickles down into the aquifer, it carries with it nitrate from excess fertilizer, a contaminant linked to negative health consequences. Putting large amounts of water on fields could potentially flush older built-up nitrate into the groundwater supply.
But Waterhouse says research models have found that, if fertilizer use is reduced, adding water to the depleted aquifers could improve groundwater quality by diluting the nitrates already in there. This could help restore drinking water to communities where wells have run dry.
Meanwhile, after irrigating 40 acres of almond orchards this winter, the groundwater level on Gemperle Orchards rose by about a foot.
Christine Gemperle says that the farm took a total of 44 acre feet in stormwater –– nearly double the 26 acre feet of well water that the farm used during the drought in 2022.
The trees don’t seem to have been harmed by the process, Gemperle says, and the young ones have put on about four feet of growth. Water was restored to her neighbor’s well, too, which ran dry last year.
Gemperle budgets groundwater carefully, and plans water use to try to keep it healthy. Recharging the aquifer helps the small family farm prepare for uncertain weather ahead.
“It’s nice to have that backup,” Gemperle says. “With climate change, in order to be resilient, we have to be super flexible.” | agronomy |
http://schreibersfarm.com/ | 2015-04-19T19:03:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246639414.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045719-00123-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.943017 | 607 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__89612114 | en | Annoucing a Major Change to the Summer CSA
Schreiber & Sons is changing the way it delivers produce and moving from a traditional CSA to using Tri-Cities Farmers Markets as our drop sites this is known as the "Inner Circle." You will use the Schreiber & Sons web store as a means to order your produce. The new system will allow you to order local organic and conventional produce from us. Anyone wanting to buy produce from Schreiber & Sons will sign up by sending their email address to [email protected] requesting to be added to the 2014 pre-order list. Starting in April, we will email a list of produce that is available each week. You pick the produce items that you want, how much you want and at what location you pick up your produce. There will be five options for pickups;
1) Pasco Farmers Market, the first Saturday in May.
2) Barnard Griffin Winery starting in April.
3) Kennewick Farmers Market at Southridge, starting on the first Thursday in June.
4) Richland Farmers Market starting the first Friday in June.
5) Walla Walla Farmers Market the first Saturday in May.
You will pay for your produce when you place your order and can make payments by check or credit card. You can always buy produce directly from us at the markets without ordering, but we will be offering a 25% discount to those who order and pay in advance. A minimum purchase of $20 is required. You will have to place your order 48 hours in advance of the market at which you want to pick up your produce. In the event you do not make the deadline, you will likely be able to come to the market and buy produce at regular price.
-We will have a wide array of mostly organic produce available.
-There are several advantages to this approach:
- Buy only the produce you want.
- Only buy produce when you want it.
- It reduces transportation outputs by half.
-You have flexibility on the days and time you can pick up your produce.
- Buy produce at 25% below market price.
- You still get to keep in touch with our farm and keep your own personal farmer.
If you are interested in getting fresh, local and organic produce, now is
the time to start signing up for the 2014 summer season. Please contact us
We grow over 300 Items/Varieties/Herbs
We have several varities of fruits and vegetables, at least 90% of our produce is grown organically.Produce varieties and quantities are approximations of produce you will receive. Availability will vary due to weather, disease and other production factors.
Find us at the Farmers Markets
You can purchase produce here on our farm, located in Eltopia, WA. We also bring our produce to our local farmers markets. You can find our booth at the following farmers markets: | agronomy |
https://www.dromoreleader.co.uk/news/local-farmers-prove-they-re-the-cream-of-the-crop-at-annual-awards-1-7057940 | 2019-08-20T00:48:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315174.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820003509-20190820025509-00097.warc.gz | 0.969471 | 621 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__9453513 | en | Three locals were named among the big winners at the Farming Life and Danske Bank Awards last week.
Dromore’s Beattie Lilburn and Sons were named Dairy Farmer of the Year.
Farm Supplier/ Machinery Company of the Year went to JMK Quads from Banbridge while Glascar man Geoffrey Malcomson won Young Farmer / Student of the Year.
Beattie Lilburn and his sons Reggie and David won top spot for their 500 acres farm at Hillcrest Farm.
The main enterprise is dairying with 230 cows and 270 youngstock, while a small flock of sheep is also run.
The closed dairy herd is managed on an autumn calving system and objectives are achieved by farming an efficient high forage system.
The main objective of the farm is to develop a sustainable forage system with grazed grass as the core forage complemented by high dry matter silage and whole crop.
Furthermore, the farm has developed a sustainable approach to feeding cows by using the farm’s potential to grow as much home-grown feed as possible in the form of combinable cereals that also make the farm self sufficient in straw.
Last year the farm won the dairy section of the Northern Ireland Silage Competition. This year they won the Northern Ireland Heifer Rear of the year competition and are in contention for the All Ireland award.
Meanwhile, Farm Supplier/ Machinery Company of the Year, JMK Quads has been trading for over ten years and employs six staff – two qualified mechanics, a sales manager, stores person, delivery and office administrator.
The family run business has gone from strength to strength with an annual turnover of £1million.
The majority of their customers are farmers so JMK Quads can be found at annual agricultural shows such as Balmoral, Castlewellan, Armagh, Shane’s Castle and the Royal Highland Show.
The firm is an authorised dealer of Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki and has recently taken on Polaris.
Highly commended was SlurryKat from Waringstown.
Now at the helm of Ringclare Farm, Glascar, Geoffrey Malcomson was also honoured at the awards.
The 26-year old gained a first class honours degree in civil engineering and worked his student summers through scholarships within the engineering industry.
He has travelled to New Zealand and Canada to broaden his horizons and work on large scale farms in both countries.
Since 2011, he has been managing the family dairy herd, pedigree sheep flock and arable crops working alongside his father and mother as the other partners in the business.
He has increased the herd by 50% from 80 cows to a comfortable capacity of 120 through own replacement and has increased yield from 6500 litres on 1.5 tonnes of concentrates to 8300 litres on 1.9 tonnes of concentrates.
Geoffrey has been an area council member for united Dairy farmers and is a member of the dairy programme committee for the Ulster Farmers’ Union. | agronomy |
http://econtechmod.pl/physical-and-mechanical-properties-of-the-black-turnip-root-flesh/ | 2019-05-21T19:00:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256546.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521182616-20190521204616-00328.warc.gz | 0.911932 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__77098787 | en | Agnieszka Starek, Elżbieta Kusińska, Tomasz Guz
Abstract. The paper presents the results of measurement of the basic physical properties of black turnip and the results of studies on the impact of sampling site on the textural properties of its pulp. Selected texture indices, i.e. hardness, elasticity, cohesiveness and chewiness, were determined using the TPA double compression test. The tests were carried out on samples taken from well-defined root layers (upper layer, middle layer, lower layer) and zones (A, B, C) of black turnip, because of its structural heterogeneity. The samples were compressed at the longitudinal and transverse direction of the fibers relative to the compressing device movement. The results obtained were statistically analyzed using the Statistica 10.0 program. The research has shown that the site of sampling and the direction of fiber positioning have a significant impact on the value of all the black turnip texture parameters.
Key words: black turnip, physical properties, sampling site. | agronomy |
https://ptr.inc/agricultural-commercial-vehicle-market-movement-in-india/ | 2023-06-06T20:46:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653071.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606182640-20230606212640-00060.warc.gz | 0.947225 | 1,230 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__233630748 | en | The global population is growing at a rate of 1.05% per year expecting to reach 9.7 billion in 2050. That is a dramatic increase from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.7 billion today and the agriculture sector will have to feed all those billions of people.
Agriculture is also vital for economic growth and in 2018 accounted for 4% of global GDP. In some developing countries the contribution was more than 25% of GDP.
With the increasing population comes the need to enhance and sustain the capacity to feed the population and mechanization of the agriculture sector is a key-way to achieve this. Farmers need to be equipped with agricultural vehicles and associated equipment and this is the goal that world organizations along with governments of developing countries are pursuing.
In India, 52% of the land is used for agriculture and it constitutes the backbone of economy being the main source of livelihood for approximately 55% of the population. This sector is responsible for providing food for 1.3 billion people of the country while contributing 16% to the national GDP.
It is important to note that growth in the agricultural sector is 2-4 times effective in increasing the income of the poorest and vulnerable segment of society. Hence developing countries like India can focus on the agricultural sector and the mechanization of it in an attempt to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.
Factors that affect the growth of the agricultural sector in the country include: landholdings, agricultural credit, (irrigation), net and gross cropped area, farm mechanization, electricity, storage infrastructure, transportation, agriculture marketing, fertilizers, high yield variety seeds, pesticides and chemicals, population and literacy rate,
The tractor industry, which is the corner stone of the agricultural commercial vehicle market, has shown double-digit growth from FY 2017-2019 in India although growth slowed down in the FY 2019. Owing to weak consumer sentiment, sector growth declined as sales slipped into negative in February and March 2019 year over year. Tractor sales in India reflect rural consumer sentiment and was greatly impacted by erratic rainfall followed by delayed sowing and low production of rabi crops in the last fiscal quarter. Sales in FY’17 increased by 15.7% and reached 661,195 units where in FY’18 tractor sales increased by 20.5% and reached 796, 873 units.
Figure 1: Tractor sales in India from FY 2017 to FY 2019.
Of the top ten companies selling tractors in India, six are Indian owned manufacturers, with Mahindra, TAFE, Sonalika an Escorts in the top four. John Deere, New Holland, Kubota and SDF are the top foreign owned companies on the list although all these companies have manufacturing facilities in India.
Although some companies announced electric tractors, as far back as 2017, as in the case of Mahindra and Escorts, the production versions of electric tractors seems several years away. In 2019, Escorts unveiled a hybrid concept tractor powered by fuel and battery. John Deere had also announced a fully electric tractor in 2016 but more recently the company has gone in the direction of a tractor having no battery and opted for an extension cable connection to power the engine. Kubota introduced a prototype electric tractor in January 2020 and will begin testing it later this year.
Meanwhile an Indian startup company, Cellestial EMobility, formed in 2019, launched an electric tractor in March, 2020. Its price, at Rs 5 lakh, makes it competitive with traditional tractors. Initially the company plans to produce 100 units a month. Another startup is AutoNxt Automation who builds electric tractors with the idea that most farmers in India own smaller plots of land and can share or rent the tractor as needed. The AutoNxt tractor is autonomous with instructions fed through a smartphone or tablet provided by the company. Operational costs for Cellestial and AutoNext electric tractors are less than their diesel tractors counterparts.
Despite a sharp decline and shrinking of the economy because of Covid-19 and associated lockdowns, tractors was one particular segment of the automotive industry which showed robust growth in September 2020. The resilience shown by the world’s largest tractor market India (both in terms of production and sales) despite the pandemic is because the country observed reverse migration from urban to rural areas, a bountiful monsoon, a favorable kharif season and an increase in the disposable income of rural India.
Indian economy is expected to strongly bounce back in 2021 and grow at 8.8%, according to the World Bank. This along with the tractor segment’s sustainability during the crisis, indicates the remarkable potential for investment and growth.
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https://www.collectorsplantfair.com.au/post/awarding-winning-fair | 2023-12-09T20:24:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00496.warc.gz | 0.943031 | 436 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__316710040 | en | Awarding Winning Fair
Updated: Mar 20
“Green Space Events & Engagement Award”
On November 20th, 2021 the phone rang! Collector's Plant Fair had won the “Green Space Events & Engagement Award”, awarded by Australia's peak horticultural body, The Australian Institute of Horticulture.
The Australian Institute of Horticulture (AIH) is proud to recognise and honour the commitment, professionalism and excellence of those who have made a significant contribution to the horticultural industry!
On giving out the award, President Michael Casey said, "Collectors' Plant Fair is one of the best events on the horticultural calendar, attracting thousands of plant loving growers and gardeners from across the country. We are thrilled to see the responsibility for its future on to two plant lovers - Linda Ross and Dan Wheatley - who are deeply determined to uphold the integrity, passion and generous spirit of the Fair, and enable it to continue as Australia’s treasured garden event."
Collectors' Plant Fair would like to sincerely thank Co-Founders Peta and Peter Trahar and Beth Stokes for their hardwork establishing the plant fair.
Daniel Wheatley, Linda Ross and Jada Bennett have been at the helm of the 'Clarendon' fair since 2015. They are lucky to have an awesome team, some of who are pictured below: Gabe Hair, Corina, Jodie, David Ting, Rosie Scott, Marnie Bruce, Amelie, Nick Wheatley, and Joram Nathan. Of course it wouldn't be a plant fair without plants and plant lovers: so a huge thanks go to the awesome growers who propagate a wonderful array of plant material, and to the community of plant lovers who love what they do.
We'd also like to thank the crew of the Hawkesbury Race Club and particularly Ricky who's been there since the beginning!! We would like to sincerely thank Graham Ross on Radio 2GB and Robin Powell at the Sydney Morning Herald for their ongoing support.
We are looking forward to doing it all again April 9-10 2022. | agronomy |
https://koppy.co/product/biodegradable-grass-seed-mat/ | 2022-11-26T22:51:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446709929.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126212945-20221127002945-00606.warc.gz | 0.907014 | 236 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__15758663 | en | Achieve a beautiful lawn with one easy step!
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http://www.libreriapirineos3000.com/organic-fertilizer-banana-skin/ | 2019-05-20T14:38:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256040.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520142005-20190520164005-00249.warc.gz | 0.952442 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__196928578 | en | Like humans needing additional vitamins to strengthen their bodies, plants also need fertilizer to make it more fertile and strong. Fertilizers themselves have organic fertilizers and chemical fertilizers. As the name suggests, organic fertilizers come from animals and plants that are used as fertilizer. While chemical fertilizers are made chemically. Each fertilizer has its own advantages, but organic fertilizers have a higher level of health for plants and for people who will consume the results of these plants. You can also visit our website to get Fertilizer for Less.
If you have a hobby of gardening, surely you will need fertilizer for your plants. No need to go buy expensive fertilizers, because you can make fertilizer from the rest of your kitchen! Thus you can reduce the amount of waste that exists, and of course, you can at the same time save money.
Basically, plants need high levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to thrive. Who would have thought that all the minerals needed could be found from the rest of your kitchen? Like banana peels, coffee grounds, even eggshells. Yes, they can all be used for the health of your plants.
Surely you are no stranger to bananas. Not only is the meat soft and fragrant, but the skin also has all the good ingredients needed by your plants. Banana peel is the most appropriate fertilizer for your plant growth. There are many ways to use it as fertilizer.
– You can use it directly. Place the banana peel in a hole that you have dug together with your plant. Being close to the roots of the plant makes nutrients from the banana skin absorbed directly by the roots. Along with plant growth, the banana peel will rot and decompose properly. Plants also thrive.
– You can cut the banana peel into small pieces. With a cut, you have helped the decay process of the banana peel, so that the release of nutrients and minerals in it can occur faster. Bury pieces of banana peel with a depth of approximately 10 cm in the soil and plant your plants. A little suggestion from Kania, you should put banana peel before planting plants. So, you don’t need to be afraid of the possibility of plant roots getting hurt when you put the banana peel. | agronomy |
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https://cityroma.com/whats-behind-the-rise-of-food-prices/ | 2023-02-01T12:43:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499934.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201112816-20230201142816-00153.warc.gz | 0.930682 | 894 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__251081181 | en | The Rise Of Food Prices
The World Food Price Index reached an all-time high in March 2022 before gradually falling for nine months to December 2022. But what caused this surge?
There are many variables contributing to the rising cost of global food, but supply chain disruptions and climate change are two major drivers for the spike in prices over the most recent years.
The above graphic from Brazil Potash explores how these two factors are contributing to the most recent rise in food prices.
1. Supply Chain Disruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have caused major disruptions to global food systems, altering trade patterns, production, and consumption of commodities.
The pandemic placed unprecedented stress on global food systems through a variety of factors, including a change in consumer food consumption, workforce restrictions, and trade pattern disruptions, causing food prices to rise.
Then, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, blocking vital exports of commodities for international food systems, and causing a sharp spike in food prices.
Ukraine was the fourth largest global exporter of cereals before the invasion. Combined, Russia and Ukraine export around 28% of the world’s wheat and 15% of its maize.
Simultaneously the fertilizer industry has also felt the strain, with the trade of essential fertilizers for crop production impacted by both the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
2. Climate Change
As global temperatures rise and weather patterns become more unpredictable, we are seeing an increase in extreme weather events that are having a devastating effect on crops around the world.
India’s rice crop fell by around 8% in 2022 due to a lack of rainfall, while drought conditions in the EU have resulted in grain yields that are approximately 16% below the five-year average.
According to NASA, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, maize yields are projected to decline by 24% by 2030, in contrast, wheat may rise by around 17%.
The below video details NASA predictions for maize yields.
Weather conditions have a direct impact on crop production, which in turn affect food prices.
The Role of Fertilizer
Rising food prices are a concern as they directly impact food security. When prices rise, it becomes more difficult for people to afford enough food to meet their needs. This can lead to hunger, malnutrition, and social and political instability.
There are steps that can be taken to mitigate the effects of rising food prices, such as increasing and diversifying the global fertilizer supply. Diversifying the fertilizer supply can alleviate pressure caused by supply chain disruptions.
Additionally, using fertilizers that improve plant resistance to environmental stress factors such as drought and can help to increase crop yields.
Brazil Potash will produce a vital crop nutrient that improves plant resistance to environmental stress factors such as drought, enabling greater yields to feed a growing population.
Click here to learn more about fertilizer and food production in Brazil.
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https://outdoorkitcheninsider.com/how-to-make-a-composter-diy-tutorials/ | 2024-02-28T00:04:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00058.warc.gz | 0.916549 | 2,237 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__105051775 | en | Making a composting bin for your garden can be a simple and inexpensive DIY project. How to make a composter? It can be done with a variety of materials, including pallets, plastic buckets, or a fence wire. Look around your lot, check your garage, and read the instructions in this blog post. Let’s start from the beginning: What is a composter?
The composting bin is a container in which compost is created out of organic waste. The process takes anywhere between 3 weeks and 12 months. There are 3 types of composting bins: indoor, batch, continuous. The most popular are continuous composting bins, to which you can add waste daily.
Composting can save you a lot of money, nourish your plants and help the planet (as you produce less trash, and they decompose in a more healthy manner). And to start doing composting all you need is a place, few simple tools, a little bit of material, and time.
How to make a composter out of the pallets?
As wood is a natural material it is an ultimate material for outdoor constructions. It fits basically any style of backyard, and is safe (if part of it is going to fall in the composting pile it is not going to pollute it).
Step #1: Collect 3 pallets and 4 planks
The list of things you’re going to need for this project:
- 3 pallets,
- 4 planks,
- 8 corner brackets,
- 2 plate brackets,
- 48 screws,
- 8 nails,
- a hammer
- a drill,
- a screwdriver.
As a used pallet is on average $14 you can create this composting bin for about $50. Remember to choose pallets that are the same size. If they’re not, a saw needs to be added to the list and they need to be made even.
It is crucial to choose a pallet without pesticides. To be sure you buy a proper kind of pallet find the stamp on it and look for a symbol. HT means the wood was heat-treated and is safe to use for the project. MB means it was treated with the highly toxic pesticide Methyl Bromide and cannot be used for a composter. You can read more about it here.
Step #2: Assemble the walls
Join 3 pallets together with 2 corner brackets on the top and 2 on the bottom. Now add 2 plate brackets at the rear corners, to make the construction stronger.
Step #3: Assemble planks in the front
Now it is time to attach 4 planks at the bottom of the front. The goal of this part is to secure composting pile from falling out. This wall should be at most half of the height of a pallet. Building the wall higher may make throwing the waste in uncomfortable.
To bring your composter to the next level of convenience you can add doors in the front. You can find a nice tutorial on it here. To add doors you’ll need hinges and a hook-and-eye latch.
To make sure your construction is not going to move add a rebar to each wall of the composter.
Step #4: Add a chicken wire or netting
This is actually a finishing touch, that can be omitted. If you want to make sure no waste is going to fall out of your composting bin you can add a chicken wire or a netting around it. For attaching it U-shaped nails or a staple gun is going to be needed.
That’s it. Now you’re ready to start using your compost bin. You can view instructions on composting below.
How do you make a simple compost bin from a trash can?
Making a composting bin out of a plastic bucket is a great way to start composting. It has so many advantages:
- It does not require a lot of space.
- It is inexpensive.
- The DIY project takes up to 1h.
A DIY composting bin made out of a trash can cost around $10.
Step #1: Prepare a trash can, a saw, and a drill
To make a composting bin out of a trash can you’re going to need:
- a trash can,
- a saw,
- a drill.
Trash can/ bucket needs to be at least 18 gallons, 24″ tall or more, and have a lid. Let’s get to work
Step #2: Cut off a bottom of a trash can
To cut off the bottom of the trash can, or a bucket, you can use a saw or a utility knife. The bottom of the trash can is cut off for aeration purposes. It is also easier to take the compost out later on.
Step #3: Drill holes in the walls
As aeration is crucial for composting to create airflow drill holes all over the bin. To make it look nice you can make a pattern out of the holes.
Step #4: Install your composting bin
Now you’re ready to place your composting bin on the ground. You can add a weed cloth underneath it, but it is not a must. Even though composting does not smell composting bin is not a joy to the eye, so it is worth hiding it a bit.
If rodents arrive at your lot do not forget to put the lid on and secure it with heave stones, or a rope. Also avoid putting meat, bones, and dairy in the composting bin.
It is that simple and easy!
How to make a composter out of a fence wire?
Making a composting bin made out of a fence wire is a fast process. Most often it is a job for 2 people.
The cost of a DIY composting bin made out of fence wire is under $30.
Step #1: Collect a chicken wire, 4 rebars, zip ties, and a wire tool
To make a composting bin out of a chicken wire you’ll need:
- a fence wire,
- 4 rebars,
- zip ties (or a wire),
- a wire tool
- a hammer.
While you choose your wires pick the thickens of wire you are comfortable working with. If it is too thick a lot of strength is going to be needed during construction.
Step #2: Choose the size of your composting bin and hammer the rebars
On average, fence wire composting bins are 3-4 foot wide, round or square. This is a time to choose the spot and hammer the rebars on the square plan. You can put a weed cloth on the ground, but it is not a must.
For a thin wire rebars should be as high as the fence wire.
Step #3: Install a fence wire on the rebars
Roll out your fence wire and create wanted shape out of it. Attach the fence wire to rebars and connect ends with zip ties, or wire.
Look for any sharp edges and try to eliminate them with wire tool.
The composter is ready, how to make a compost in it?
How do you make a compost step by step
To make a compost a composting bin needs to be filled with organic waste. The new composting bin should be filled with two layers:
- Tiny twigs
After filling your composter with these 2 layers you can start adding your organic waste. There are two kinds of organic waste from a composting point of view: green and brown. Green materials are green leaves, garden waste, flowers, vegetables, etc. Browns are dried leaves, cartons, paper towels, dried grass clippings, etc. The full list is below.
The key to creating compost is balancing brown and green materials by adding them in layers. So let’s say you put in the composter a lot of rotten apples, the next layer can be dried grass clippings.
How to speed up compost process
There are multiple ways to speed up the composting process. The list you’re going to find below:
- Turn your compost every 2-4 weeks.
- Make sure the inside of your compost pile is moist enough. If it is too wet add dry materials, if it is too dry water it.
- Add waste in big batches instead of adding small amounts frequently.
- Chop and shred larger items.
- Keep your compost pile in the sun.
- Add a compost activator.
What is the best material for a compost bin?
There are two types of organic waste to be composted: green and brown. Below you’ll find a list of compostable materials.
|Dead house plants
|Paper egg cartons
|Dried grass clippings
What is bad for compost?
There is a list of materials that cannot be added to compost and not all of them are obvious as plastic. Take a look at the table below.
|Bad compost material
|Citrus peels, onions, garlic
|can kill worms and other microorganisms
|Teabags, coffee pods
|can contain nylon and other synthetic materials
|Glossy or coated paper
|Sticky labels on fruits and vegetables
|plastic that contaminates compost
|Meat, fish, bones
|attract rodents, do not compost
|smells, attract pets and scavengers
|Oil, butter, fat based condiments, and foods
|attract pests, do not break down
|Fresh baked goods, cooked grains
|breed bad bacteria, attract rodents
|Cat and dog droppings
|can make compost toxic
|compost made with it can damage plants (to high sulfur and iron amounts)
|Grass clippings recently treated with pesticides
|pesticides are not going to break down in compost
|Weed seed, diseased plants
|weeds and diseases can spread with compost
Will compost attract rats?
Compost bin can attract rats, if the compost material consists out of materials listed above, so meat, fish, bones, dairy, eggs, fresh baker goods or cooked grains. Avoid these material and they’re not going to visit you.
Now it’s your turn
I hope you find my article about compost bins useful.
Now I’d like to hear from you: which composting bin you like the most and would like to construct in your backyard?
Was it the pallet, wire, or a trash can one?
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April 10, 2018: The Clean Energy Co-op is extra excited to announce our next and largest project to date - installing 50kWs of solar photovoltaic (PV) at Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus Pennsylvania. Last week, the Co-op signed a MoU with Willow Wisp, to finance up to 168 panels to go on the barn roof pictured above. The planned PV system will provide the farm with all of its current electricity needs, with the excess sold to PPL Electric Utilities for distribution to its other customers. Our first step is submission of a grant application to the USDA's REAP program to hopefully provide about $12,000, with the farm and Co-op providing the remainder of the nearly $95,000 cost of the project. Similar to our Anthill Farm project last year, the Co-op will be raising the required funds from its membership via a private Preferred Share offering, so that it can then provide Willow Wisp with a long-term modest loan.
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Pumpkins are deceiving. The orange gourds look so rough and tough, but they’re actually rather delicate.
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- 6 out of the 7 continents can produce pumpkins, which includes Alaska. Brr.. The only continent the pumpkin can’t flourish in is Antarctica.
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- A 5 foot wide pumpkin pie weighing in at 350 pounds? Can you imagine that? That is how big the world’s largest pumpkin is.
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- What about the World’s Largest Pumpkin ever grown? 2032 pounds and
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African American Experiences in Orange County, Florida during the Citrus Boom of affiliation Florida was well known for farming business in the 19th century. Among the many crops grown were corn, vegetables, sugarcane and citrus fruits1. The disadvantage with citrus fruit was that it got spoilt very fast and this meant that without proper transport means, the fruit could not be of any economic benefit. With the development of the railroad in the 19th century, citrus fruits were transported to other parts of the US using fast trains2. In addition, immigrants came to Florida and citrus plantation increased while the citrus farmers continued to grow rich with the sale of the fruit. The first of Florida’s citrus boom was cut short when freezes occurred twice and destroyed most of the citrus trees except for southern Florida where trees survived3. After the freeze farmers migrated to the South where they began planting citrus and a second citrus boom was experienced and Florida’s economy has never been the same. The focus of this paper is to evaluate the African Americans’ experience during the Orange County, Florida State citrus boom. The citrus boom was characterized by increased need for labor in the farms4. In addition, the climate in Orange was conducive for citrus growing and so was the soil. Florida coastline is along the Gulf of Mexico through which Mexican immigrants came to Orange County. Other people attracted to Florida were from older plantations in the southern sections of Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. There were also African Americans, Indian people and Spaniards5. With the growing population in Orange County during the citrus boom, the United States federal government experienced increased pressure to grant land to native whites. As a result, the Indian people, who owned land, were taken out of their lands to pave way for native whites to own land. There were two primary groups of Indian population which were the Creek and the Miccosukee. The retrieval of land from Indians was a drawback for the African Americans refugees who lived with them6. In addition, the removal of Indians was a good way for the White people who felt that Indians offered sanctuary for runaway slaves from the states in the north. With the Whites owning lands, the number of African American slaves increased as they offered cheap labor for high profits to the citrus growers. Although there was an opposing force from the Northern States about slavery, some Southern states like Florida were opposed to end of slavery and refused to vote for Abraham Lincoln for his anti-slavery advocacy7. Increased number of African American and slaves and immigrant like Mexicans led to low wages for workers while the citrus growers experienced high profits. Low wages was as a result of the presence of high number of unskilled workers and slavery which diminished any efforts for wage negotiation and bargains. Martin8 reveals that in the presence of low wage labor, the entrepreneurs lack the incentives to make productivity-increasing investments. This is evident in that despite getting rich from the citrus boom, the citrus growers did not take precautions to prevent their plants from being affected by freezes like was the case in 1898 when two freezes struck and left most farmers abandoning citrus firming for other activities. In the presence of African American slaves and other low-waged labor sources, most citrus growers were discouraged from purchasing expensive equipment to increase their productivity. Lack of purchasing of equipment in the presence of low wage labor is in line with the argument by Martin9 that although higher profits facilitate productivity-elevating investment, low wages are discouraging since low labor is readily available. With citrus fruits plantations, the fruits have to mature on the tree before being sampled to evaluate the acid to sugar level amount. In the sugar acid ratio is right; the citrus fruits can then be harvested. Although harvesting may be done throughout the year, only a few workers were offered full employment throughout the year10. In the beginning of picking season, the workers were needed only for a day or two each week or just hours a day. This meant that the African Americans working in citrus farms had no job security apart from receiving poor pay. In addition, workers in citrus farms were not pleased with the work of citrus picking since they had to stand on a ladder for hours carrying a 50-60 pound bag on their backs11. This was not only tiring by also very demeaning coupled with the fact that the temperatures in the grooves also rose to 100 degrees and more without even the slightest breeze in summer and very cold in winter. African Americans in the citrus boom also worked in packing house, associations, marketing organizations, irrigators, graders, cultivators, packers label printers, auctioneers and others (Brigandi 2008). In most cases, the chemicals used in spraying the citrus trees were very harmful and affected the health of most African Americans performing that task. This meant incurring high medical costs for treatment or at times even death. According to Porter12 the estimates for farmworkers have been estimated to include men, women, children and teenager. However, the majority of the farmworkers have been men who are single or with spouses living in other states. For female farmworkers, they are more likely to live with their nuclear families compared to men. Porter also reveals that U. S born African Americans working in citrus plantations have decreased significantly over time13. End notes
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The coral didn’t grow that quickly it just doesn’t exist and was all purchased
Hi, yes many corals and other animals are purchased of came as a present. It just should show the tank after a year, nobody said it all grew in that year.
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The Feasibility of Malunggay leaves (Moringa Oleifera)
and Chili fruit (Capsicum Frutescens) as Pesticide
Arinsol, John Miguel
Banzale, Bryan Barroba
Lakampuenga, Christian Matthew
Maglasang, Jonah Christine
Muramatsu, Alizah Marie
Salcedo, Tyrone James
Talens, Tristan Ashley
Mrs. Marianne Rayala
February 26, 2013
1.1 Background of the study
The Pesticide is a substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of animal life that are considered to be pests. A pesticide chemical can rarely be used as originally manufactured. The pesticide must be diluted with water, oil, air or chemically inactive solids so that it can be handled by application equipment and spreads evenly over the area to be treated. It includes cockroach killer.
Malunggay is called “Malunggay” in the Phippines, “Sajina” in the Indian Subcontinent, and “Moringa” in English, it is a popular tree. It grows wildly in a hot tropical climate. Both the leaves and fruits are very nutritious, which contain many vitamins like Vitamin C and other minerals.
Chili, the name, which is spelled differently in many regions chili, chile and chilli. The term chili in most of the world refers exclusively to the smaller hot types of capsicum. It is a hot pepper. Even though chilis maybe though as vegetable, their culinary usage is, a generally spice, the part of the plant that is usually harvested is the fruit.
The researcher conducted the study to find out if the malunggay leaves and chilli fruit could be utilized as a pesticide. And determines the effect of malunggay leaves and chilli fruit to the cockroach.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
This study lies to find out the effectiveness of malunggay leaves and chilli fruit as pesticide.(cockroach killer).
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The whole area looked lush and green as the rainy season has been good. As it was the ‘summer’ holiday time, those children who could be sent to their families/relatives had done so, so there weren’t many children at the centre. Those who had to stay were kept busy with various activities such as exploring the joys of musical instruments. The management was also planning day trips for them.
Avocado trees growing project
The avocado trees have grown a lot in the past two years and have been pruned back once already to control their height and encourage lateral growth which will make it easier for harvesting the fruit. The trees are expected to started yielding fruit in their third year (2020) but the experts from CultivAid have recommended removing the first-year fruits (as they appear) and let the trees grow an additional year without fruit in order to build stronger trees. CultivAid also commented: “From an agronomical and economic perspective, we expect to get fruits on the 4th year” (i.e., 2021). EOS-UK Charity Fund has been funding the cost of caring for the avocado trees during their growing phase, a project cost of ETB 360,000 (approximately USD 16,000 or GBP 11,690 at March 2018 exchange rate). The third tranche will be sent early in 2020.
EWCV have also started a small apple orchard with help from CultivAid.
The dairy herd
The number of dairy cows kept by EWCV has been increased gradually from 40 to 70. Animal welfare has also been enhanced, once again with advice from CultivAid, and the herd now roam in a wide compound, feeding and drinking on demand, and lying down in the muddy field when they want to which is apparently more natural for them than a ‘clean’ concrete floor.
Unfortunately, the bio-digester (flexigester), has apparently been out of action since at least January 2019. According to Alem, the flexigester developed a linear tear on one side. They patched that up but soon another tear appeared but this time it was apparently a zigzagging one. That took a lot of hard work and expense to repair but Alem said that another zigzagging tear appeared soon afterwards. Understandably, they gave up gave up trying to mend it after that. Since the problem came to light, Sustainable OneWorld Technologies C.I.C (sowTec.com) in Cambridge, who designed and sold the flexigester, have been notified and a full response is still awaited. It is very disappointing to everybody as FECIN (Friends of Ethiopian Children in Need) had spent a considerable sum of money to purchase this bio-digester and get it to Ethiopia, and Alem and his team at EWCV had put a lot of effort and expense to get it though the Ethiopian customs system and finally install it successfully at EWCV. The flexigester had been functioning for some eighteen months producing methane gas for cooking and useful liquid fertiliser for their vegetable plants before it developed the tear. | agronomy |
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- Dispel myths and misinformation concerning the honeybee
- Promote the honeybee and the beekeeping industry
- Provide resources and communication to the beekeeping community
After meeting with Secretary, Mrs. Angela Juffey through emails, I reached out to the organization to give our club a presentation about bees.
“My role, as Secretary and Beekeeper, is to support the CJBA’s mission. While having 14 hives, I reach out to my community and give Honeybee presentations when requested. When the weather is cooperative, my “girls” travel with me in an Observation Hive to various garden clubs, schools, libraries, and Harvest Festivals.” – Mrs. Juffey
The presentation not only covered the role bees play in the environment, but their different types, roles in the hive and even how to become a beekeeper yourself.
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- Honey bee collapse
- Colony Collapse Disorder, Cons and how it happens
- Raw honey vs. Pasteurized Honey (Ms. Juffey does collect raw honey from her beloved bees)
- Honey Bee diseases, pests and predators
- Bee behavior and communication
- How to be a friend to the bees:
- Plant bee friendly wildflowers and shrubs: crocus and snowdrop, lavender, thyme, sage, etc.
- Bird bath for thirsty bees
- Dandelions have a lot of nectar for bees, so do not pick them near bee hives!!!
- Make your own bee house – hollow bamboo shoots in a flower vase
- Become a beekeeper
- Always face hives east to get the bees out as soon as sun rises
As the Vice President of SAVE Cub, on behalf of all of us, I’d like to thank NJ Beekeepers Association and the wonderful Ms. Juffey for such an insightful presentation.
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How to do Makhana Farming Business?
Still, also you must consider Makhana Farming Business formerly If you have a cultivable ranch/ pond and you want to do some husbandry business. This is similar to a business, which can make you earn lakhs of rupees every month. It has a high demand in the request. That is why you’ll be suitable to fluently vend the ready-made makhanas in the original request and get cash plutocrats.
Still, to start this business, you must first get complete information about Makhana Farming Business, which you’ll get in this composition. On this runner, we will know “ What’s Makhana Farming Business ” and “ How to do Makhana Farming Business.,
Makhana is also a dry fruit. That is why people also eat it as a dry fruit. piecemeal from this, it’s also consumed during fasting. From diabetes to controlling cholesterol, as well as strengthening the bones of humans, it proves to be veritably helpful in reducing weight. You’ll be surprised to know that about 80 percent of the Makhana husbandry business in the country takes place in the state of Bihar because the climate of the state of Bihar is stylish for its civilization.
piecemeal from this, it’s also cultivated on a large scale in the countries of Odisha, Meghalaya, and Assam. It can be cultivated in two ways. originally, you should do this business by making slush on your own ranch, and secondly, you should start a makhana husbandry business in the pond.
Method of doing Makhana Farming (Makhana Farming Production and Cultivation) -:
We know that you were ignorant of this business till now. That is why you want to get a companion that tells you how to start this business, so let’s get complete information about this business and know how to start Makhana Farming Business.
Climate for Makhana Farming -:
To start Makhana Farming Business, you must first check the terrain and whether the place where you live is suitable for its civilization or not. Black complexion soil is needed to do makhana husbandry business. Because its shops grow well under water. That is why you’ll need a pond in this husbandry business so that you can store water in it for a long time. Makhana shops develop fleetly at normal temperatures.
Pond preparation for Makhana farming (Makhana Farming Preparation) -:
To start Makhana Farming Business you have to construct a pond. Under construction, you’ll have to first dig the soil in the pond, after that you’ll have to fill the water in large volumes. Now after this, you have to make slush by mixing water and soil in the pond well. Because in this slush you have to plant the seed of Makhana. After this, about 6 to 9 elevation of water is filled in the pond. We want to tell them that you have to make the pond about 2 months before starting the Makhana Farming Business.
Makhana Farming Time -:
Before keeping the seeds of Makhana in the nethermost face of the pond, you have to duly remove all the weeds present in the pond and clean the pond duly, because by doing this the factory will get complaints. The peril is greatly reduced. After this, you have to plant Makhana seeds in the nethermost face of the pond at a depth of 3 to 4cm.
However, also for this, you’ll need about 80 kg of makhana seeds, If you’re doing makhana husbandry business in about 1-hectare field. Although the seeds of Makhana are ready in the month of November or December itself, the stylish time to cultivate it in the pond is in January, February, or March.
Employees in Makhana Farming Business (Makhana Farming Business Staff) -:
It depends on you how many employees you will need in this business. If you are doing Makhana Farming Business on a small scale, then you can handle this whole business alone, but if you are doing this business on a large scale for commercial purposes, then you will have to hire employees per hectare. will be required. Explain that one employee per 3 hectares is suitable for this business. In this way, you can decide the number of employees according to the number of hectares of land in which you are cultivating it.
Equipment in Makhana Farming Business -:
To start this business, you must have a diesel pump set as you will need it to fill water in the lock. If you want, you can also use an electric water motor instead. Apart from this, you should have a plastic water pipe to pour water into the pond, as well as you should have the necessary equipment to remove weeds. Apart from this, you should have a large net, by which you can cover the pond.
Registration and License in Makhana Farming Business -:
Registration and License in Makhana Farming Business (Makhana Farming Business License and Registration)
If a person starts this business on a small scale, then there is no need to take any kind of registration or license, but if the person is starting this business on a large scale, then he has commercial There should be an electrical connection as it will be required for filling water in the pond with the help of a motor. However, if you have a diesel engine set, then you do not even need it. Apart from this, you must have the license of FSSAI as it comes under the category of business food. You can get other registration and license information from your local municipality.
Investment in Makhana Farming Business -:
Cultivating it on a small scale may require less investment and cultivating it on a large scale may require more investment. However, according to the style, if you start this business on your own farm or your own pond, then initially you may have to invest about 8 to ₹ 12 thousand.
If he starts this business on another’s farm or pond, then this investment can go up to 15,000 to 18,000 including other expenses. Similarly, the bigger the level you start this business, the more the investment will be. You will know the real truth of investment in this only after starting this business.
Makhana Farming Business Profit -:
Out of 3 kg of seeds, you can get only 1 kg of slag, and makhana is prepared using this obtained slag. In this way, about 40 kg of Makhana is obtained from 1 quintal of Makhana, the price of which varies in the market. In some states, its price is higher, while in some states its price is slightly less.
Although personally when we checked the price of Makhana, we found that it is really beneficial to cultivate it. Now how much money you can earn through this business depends on how extensively you have cultivated it and how much ready makhana you have got to sell.
Marketing of Makhana Farming Business -:
People who start this type of business in rural areas do not need to worry much about marketing this business, because people in rural areas automatically know this type of business. However, despite this, if people starting Makhana Farming Businesses in rural or urban areas want to market it, then they can follow online and offline methods. Under the online method, he can put the status of his farming business on WhatsApp or he can also click on the photo of his pond so that people know about his business.
Apart from this, under the offline method, a person can print the visiting card of his farming business and give it to the people, as well as get the banner of his farming business installed in the busy area. Apart from this, by getting a pamphlet printed on his Makhana Farming Business, he can get it distributed among the people.
Packaging of Makhana (Fox Nuts) Packaging -:
If you want to sell this item by branding it yourself, then you should pay special attention to its packing. You should keep the packing attractive and also note that air cannot enter the packing in any way so that the makhana does not get spoiled. Apart from this, properly print the nutritional value of Makhana, the price of Makhana, its weight, and all other information on the packing, so that your brand can gain credibility in the market.
Q: How to start a Makhana business?
Ans -: We have given detailed information about Makhana Business Idea Plan in the article.
Q: When to do Makhana cultivation?
Ans -: January-February or March is considered the right time to cultivate Makhana.
Q: Where is Makhana cultivated?
Ans -: Bihar, Mithilanchal, Assam, Orissa, but in the state of Bihar Makhana is cultivated on a large scale.
Q: How is Makhana produced?
Ans -: Makhana is produced in a muddy pond or in a muddy field.
Q: How much does it cost to start a Makhana Farming business?
Ans -: 15 to 20 thousand rupees
Q: How much profit is made from the Makhana farming business?
Ans -: Up to about Rs 1 lakh
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The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) Corporate Communicaton Manager Dan Nzonzo briefing the the Thiba dam site after the 15.6 million water reservoir filled up to capacity and ready for use by the Mwea rice farmers
The perennial scramble for irrigation water for the Mwea rice farmers has come to an end following the filling in of water at the Thiba mega dam.
Farmers will from this season use the water to plant their crop without any fear of losing the seedlings to the dry spell which normally comes around due to the climate change.
The dam with a reservoir capacity of 15 .6 million cubic liters of water was completed in march this year after which the National Irrigation Authority started filling it up.
The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) Engineer Stephen Mutinda speaking to the media at the Thiba dam site which he confirmed was now complete and fully operational
According the Authority’s Corporate Communication Manager Dan Nzonzo farmers will be able to plant two seasons per year thereby doubling production which will also translate to doubled financial income .
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The official who was briefing the media at the dam site said only the required amount of irrigation water would be released downstream in a very organised manner such that every section of the scheme will be receiving its rightful amount of the precious commodity .
A section of the farmers interviewed this morning exuded confidence in the rice sector after many years of perennial water shortage in the 25,000 hectares under rice cultivation following the completion of the Sh 7.8 billion mega dam.
In that regard , Nzonzo said the projected total dam cost was Sh 8.2 billion but the contractor completed the project ahead of the scheduled time saving the government Sh 400 million .
“From this season farmers at the Mwea Irrigation scheme who have been under producing the crop will start leaping the fruits of irrigated agriculture where quality rice grain will be produced ,”Nzonzo said.
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Ms. Jabbor’s feats of decency began to adequately settle, with the unlikely use of a row cover in late October, perhaps 18 years earlier. She was applying garlic and noticed a patch of arugula becoming stronger despite the recent frost. He had covered it with some cloth, which he used in the spring on tomato transplants when the temperature briefly submerged. “We cut arugula until Christmas,” she recalled.
That sudden success got him thinking. She begins reading books found on any subject, including classics: Helen and Scott Nearing, the books of Homesteaders of New England, which began in the 1950s series “Living the Good Life” and with Eliot Coleman Carried out his experiments. , A gardener in Maine with 50 years of experience in four-season vegetable production, who was inspired by niering and referred to a generation of organic farmers. Leander Poisson’s “Solar Gardening” was also on the course.
He discovered seeds from northern companies that were well suited to his short season and began ordering the gear of those writers. As he said: “If you are going to invest money and then in the right seeds, why not invest in insurance?”
Just about the right words, when our Seeds are on order (with any luck) And the soil awaits – although it is still frozen or mucky. Are we ready with insurance too? Ms. Jabor suggested us her most used basics to get started.
What do you want to do, and when?
Successful zone-cheat and insect-prevention relies on matching equipment with the goals of the garden. Are your obstacles heat, frost, insects or animals?
In a small-season area, where it is difficult to mature an entire crop of heat-loving crops such as peppers, eggplants and melons, if the frost descends quickly, a mini-enclosure tunnel covered in greenhouse plastic sheeting is an effective safeguard.
A crop that benefits from a certain type of protection at one end of the season – e.g. tomatoes Outside life begins with a piece of row cover – something more may be needed at the other end. (The chart below provides a quick cross-reference of the challenge-facing tools.)
“It’s very difficult to have a cloth-covered mini-tunnel on a full-grown tomato plant,” said Ms. Jabor, so I can only wrap them in a light or medium row cover attached to the support value of the wood. It doesn’t look so pretty, but you can cook for many more weeks. “
The lightweight rover cover provides protection against pests, as does that plastic mini-tunnel – but is too hot in summer for crops like lettuce, cabbage and broccoli inside the tunnel.
The woven shade cloth meets another challenge, depending on the weight chosen, blocking some of the light, which makes midsummer seeding easier.
“A lot of Crops for fall and winter crops They are planted in summer, when the soil is hot and dry – which seeds do not like, ”said Ms. Jabbour. As summer comes, shade cloth slows soil-moisture evaporation, supporting germination, as well as spring lettuce, argula and spinach.
Three basic ingredients all you need
The material has many weights and brands, but to start the experiment, Ms. Jabor recommends investing in three: a lightweight row cover, a knitted shade cloth and durable, clear-plastic wrap.
When you are buying material, he said, “Farmers consider quality. I want to use less plastic and other materials like this, so I want to pay more and give more durability. “
Start with a fabric row cover: Ms. Jabor recommends the Agribon AG-19, which gives 85 percent light and is rated for insect protection and light frost, which allows about 4 degrees of insulation for temperatures up to 28 Offers less than degree. For insect protection alone, the light Agribon AG-15 gives 90 percent light, but with less heat buildup, so it can remain in place in summer.
Next, choose a black or green woven shade cloth, which provides 30 to 50 percent shade.
Ms. Jabour’s third required: 6-mile greenhouse-quality plastic, UV-treated and rated for a four-year life span (although she gets six or seven years of use out of it). Garden centers can sell it with a walking leg, or you can order a roll with friends. Discard special greenhouse repair tape; Cheap clear packing tape is ok. “Just make sure to patch any holes on both sides,” Ms Jabbour said.
When you are not using your materials, bend and store them. But first, be sure to clean them, as accumulated dirt reduces light transmission. “I put the plastic down and wiped it off,” Ms Jabbor said. “And I hang clothes and put them down, or the machine washes them on a delicate one.”
Choose the right support
Various materials set in hoops can cover the beds and support the cover. On Ms. Jabor’s four-foot-wide beds, 10-foot-length hoops rise one yard high in the center, depending on how deep the ends are buried.
Many gardeners start with a nine-gauge wire, which is more than enough to support a light cover for pest control or shade. Ms. Jabor said, “I use wire in the shoulder season or summer to float on stuff,” but not in winter. “
The half-inch PVC conduit is a step, at an easy 10-foot turn. Recently, Ms. Jabbor has been upgraded to a half-inch galvanized electrical conduit – the most durable support, although it requires pipe-bending equipment.
Supports the key of a tightening casing at half an inch: special greenhouse snap clamps for the job, about three for each hoop. In the event of wind or to keep insects out, the bottom edges must be buried with wood or rocks.
For the mini-tunnels from which she harvests carrots, Asian greens and other crops, Ms. Jabor rolls one-two sticks at the hem and raises the screws into the bedside.
“Even with those small screw holes in the ply,” she said, “I’ve been reusing it for years.”
sometimes? When to apply and remove the cover
To exclude spring frosts and keep insects out, keep your cover at the time of sowing or planting. “With the sow, you could wait,” Ms Jabbour said. “But hey, the extra heat can speed up germination and growth.”
One caveat: Cabbage worms, flea beetles, squash worms and other insects can overwinter in the soil at some life stages. Therefore, rotating the crop – moving to a new location in the garden every year, broccus, cucurbit or nightshade – should be combined with the use of row-cover. “Otherwise, it backfires, and you’re trapping the pests under cover with your favorite food,” she said.
Some crops require pollinator access to set fruit, so with cucurbits, for example, Ms. Jabbor removes the cover when the plant flowers. “Until then, they are usually strong enough to withstand a little insect pressure somehow,” she said.
Light clothing can discourage large pests such as rabbits, hyena or deer. You can also invest in bird netting or chicken wire as an extra-hard cover, which is also effective when birds, chipmunk or squirrels dig up seeds or uproot seedlings.
Ready for the next step? Try cold frame
Ready to do something semi-permanent in under-cover mounting? make an attempt Cold frame, Ms. Jabbor suggested.
A cold frame is a versatile device – whether it is portable or partially buried in the ground, store-bought and made of polycarbonate or rot-resistant wood with a poly lid. “You can start seeds, care for transplanting, push the spring and fall, of half hardy plants and flower bulbs like Syrian and Greek thyme or even my artichokes. Pot of Force. “
Ms. Jabbor has several, and enough other gear to defend and expand her 20 raised beds, as well as a 14-by-24-foot poly tunnel for walking. And his clouches – an impressive collection, most of them plastic gallon water bottles with the bottles removed – are like individual greenhouses for tender implants.
A caution about assembling your own botanical garden tool kit: Each success can inspire you to take on another, more-elusive goal. Fig forest, anyone? Ms. Jabor’s in-laws certainly anticipate what lies ahead in the ongoing experiment. | agronomy |
http://multimedianewsroom.us/tag/neonicotinoids/ | 2019-09-20T03:39:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573827.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920030357-20190920052357-00314.warc.gz | 0.953201 | 1,149 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__110450472 | en | By Elizabeth Williams, Maria Roque, Katherine Recatto and Alice Kozdemba
Gardeners, beware—plants marketed as “bee-friendly” may be laced with pesticides that have been proven to harm the buzzing pollinators, according to a recent study.
The study, released by Friends of the Earth U.S. and the Pesticide Research Institute reported that 51 percent of plant samples advertised as “bee-friendly” contained harmful neonicotinoids, or neonic pesticides. The plant samples were purchased at major garden retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart from 18 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including stores in Austin.
The findings of the report fall in line with a study published by the Harvard School of Public Health in May, which linked the pesticides as a possible cause of colony collapse disorder, or CCD.
CCD is the phenomenon of worker bees disappearing from their hives. It has been reported in North America and Western Europe since 2006 after beekeepers were discovering their hives had been mysteriously emptied, with no trace of dead bees to be found.
“People are purchasing these plants with the idea that they want to attract bees and be helpful to bees, and instead they are unknowingly, in some cases, actually poisoning bees.” Luke Metzger, founder and director of Environment Texas
The losses reported in 2006 ranged from 30 to 90 percent of beekeepers’ hives, according to the USDA. While some beekeepers are reporting a bounce-back from CCD in the last year, the causes still remain at large.
“We can use alternatives for these plants, and I think it’s especially concerning because, again, people are purchasing these plants with the idea that they want to attract bees and be helpful to bees, and instead they are unknowingly, in some cases, actually poisoning bees,” said Luke Metzger, founder and director of Environment Texas.
Without the bees’ pollination, foods like apples and onions would never make it to the dinner table. According to the study, approximately two-thirds of food crops rely on commercial pollinators, and more than 140 crops are grown with neonic pesticides, including corn, soy and wheat.
“When that happens to an entire hive, or happens to even hundreds or thousands of hives at one time, that causes a problem because that means that plants don’t get pollinated, fruit doesn’t result, and the entire food system can be compromised,” said Konrad Bouffard, owner of Round Rock Honey, a local beekeeper and honey producer.
Agrochemical businesses like Monsanto Co. and DuPont have said that neonic pesticides, which are used to soak seeds before planting, should not be present in levels that affect bees after the plant has flowered. The companies have cited mite infestations as a cause of dwindling bee populations.
While researchers have also noted habitat loss and disease as possible causes of CCD, neonic pesticides are a direct human intervention that has been proven to negatively affect bee behavior.
“It’s a combination of all these things coming together, and the straw that broke the camel’s back, or the one that stressed the environment to the point of breaking, is the neonicotinoids,” Bouffard said. “If you take out the neonicotinoids, then you don’t have the breaking point anymore.”
When crops are treated with neonics, the chemicals travel and are distributed throughout the entire plant, including areas like pollen and nectar. The pesticides can also be present in soil.
The pesticides are neurotoxins that can change the way bees behave, even when the pesticides are not at lethal levels said Nancy Moran, a biology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Ingestion of these pesticides can also make bees more susceptible to disease and less able to fight off mite infestation.
“Bees have very complicated behavior,” Moran said. “They go to a flower, then they go back to the hive and do this special dance that tells the other bees where the flower is, and if they do the dance wrong because their brains are not working right, then the other bees will not find the flower.”
Neonic pesticides are a direct human intervention that has been proven to negatively affect bee behavior.
Natural diversity provides bees with the healthiest pollinating opportunities.
“We don’t put our bees on the edge of farms, even organic farms,” Bouffard said. “There’s so much seed out there that has been touched by Monsanto and those places.”
In 2013, the European Union banned neonic pesticides until 2015 to see if honeybee populations increase. In the U.S., Congress proposed the Saving America’s Pollinators Act in 2013 and President Barack Obama called on the EPA and other federal agencies to create a strategy that would take steps to protect bee populations.Several states including Minnesota, Oregon, New York, California and New Jersey have also banned certain strains of the neonic pesticides.
Metzger said that the best way to get truly bee-friendly plant options is to talk to the staff of garden stores and let them know that consumers want neonicotinoid-free plants.
“I think that kind of direct consumer pressure, as the stores see the public demand for them to stop using it, they’ll respond to that,” Metzger said. | agronomy |
https://clienfarms.eu/partners/p4/ | 2024-04-21T10:50:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817765.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421101951-20240421131951-00780.warc.gz | 0.910706 | 427 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__179255546 | en | AgriCircle is an SME headquartered in Switzerland. Our team creates technology solutions that help farmers and the food industry use resources more efficiently and sustainably.
Our journey started in 2013 with the development of our farm management platform. We first focused on data capturing via remote sensing. Since 2015, we investigate the use of satellite imagery for soil mapping and precision agriculture applications. Soil carbon farming is for us the logical outcome of this journey that aligns with our mission to make farming more efficient and sustainable. Our goal is to build a sustainable and profitable business model for farmers around carbon farming. This project allows us to pilot solutions we have worked on for the past couple
of years and to build on scalable business model around it with the partners involved. With its
networks of farms and research focus on soil it further brings in a novel methodology to measure soil carbon.
AgriCircle has a track record of transforming innovative concepts into practical applications. Via our in-house cloud-based digital farm management information platform, we assist farmers and agronomists in forecasting, decision-making and workflow. Recognition for AgriCircle includes a Startfeld Diamant prize for the most innovative SME in Eastern Switzerland and nomination for the IBK Sustainability award.
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WP1: in T1.3, we will contribute to compiling the baseline of climate performance for the various I3S farms and
T1.4 contribute to creating collective knowledge resources on climate solutions at the disposal of all I3Ss.
WP2: In T2.2 and T2.3, we will facilitate the alignment of soil carbon sequestration (SCS) and LCA measuring method that shall be used for carbon credit measurements. We will interlink methods and tools used for carbon quantification in selected geographies.
WP4: in T4.1, T4.2 and T4.3 we will interlink collected data with a carbon accounting process and pilot it in selected I3S. | agronomy |
http://farmtransformationinstitute.com/about.html | 2021-06-22T02:32:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504969.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622002655-20210622032655-00035.warc.gz | 0.886981 | 224 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__192924767 | en | Transforming farms from industrial animal agriculture to plant-based alternatives is a new and necessary field that requires visionary thinking and innovative solutions.
Solutions that will enrich the planet, sustain farmers and create healthier, more efficient, alternative proteins.
The information needed is multi-field, geographically diverse and data intensive.
Our platform integrates these many layers to build a cohesive vision for farmers to tap into and begin to thrive.
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Transforming Lives and Agriculture Through New Methods and Crops to Grow a Better World
Farmers hold the key to better food, a safer planet and a sound future. By working with farms, the true source of our food, we have the opportunity to "farm our future."
We endeavour to cultivate the world we want to live in just as we cultivate the crops we sow.
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We want to disrupt the food system for the better, while improving social welfare for farmers, ensuring animal welfare and contributing to a positive environmental impact for our future. | agronomy |
https://oskygroup.com/ | 2023-11-30T13:16:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00379.warc.gz | 0.917549 | 482 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__303466085 | en | Osky Catfish Hatchery, Grow out and Processing Facility is a subsidiary of Osky Integrated Nigeria Limited located in Akure, the capital of Ondo State and is duly registered in Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) since 2012 and all other regulatory bodies at the State, National and International levels including United States FDA approval
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The growing appreciation for African flavors and food and the demand for dried/smoked fish has increased tremendously especially in the US, UK, Europe, and Australia due to the high volume of African transcontinental migration.Read more
Our feed processing unit is currently completed so we will be drastically cutting our cost of production. We will also be selling feed to our affiliate farmers and the general fish farming community.Read more
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Our Hatchery System has a production capacity of 5 million fingerlings every 2 months with sales worth N100,000,000.
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https://blognow.co.in/latest-news-india-allows-export-of-75000-tons-of-non-basmati-rice-to-the-united-arab-emirates | 2024-04-20T23:08:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817688.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420214757-20240421004757-00885.warc.gz | 0.954354 | 395 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__184022388 | en | Latest News: India Allows Export of 75,000 Tons of Non-Basmati Rice to the United Arab Emirates
India Allows Export of 75,000 Tons of Non-Basmati Rice
New Delhi, September 24, 2023 - The Indian government has recently granted permission to export 75,000 tons of non-basmati rice to the United Arab Emirates, in an effort to meet the food security demands of their neighboring nation. This decision was announced by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Monday, and the shipment will be facilitated through the National Cooperative Exports Ltd (NCEL).
Despite a ban on rice exports in India, the government has committed to assisting friendly neighboring countries by allowing limited rice exports. This step has been taken to maintain good relations with trading partners and provide support in fulfilling their food requirements.
Previously, the Indian government also permitted the export of broken rice to countries such as Senegal, Gambia, Indonesia, Mali, and Bhutan, in substantial quantities. This is part of India's effort to engage in robust food diplomacy and contribute to global welfare.
In addition to the United Arab Emirates, India has also granted permission for the export of non-basmati rice to other countries such as Bhutan, Mauritius, and Singapore through NCEL. The total volume of non-basmati rice exports permitted by the Indian government has reached a significant amount.
The Indian government's decision to allow rice exports comes after a series of earlier export restrictions. In September of last year, the government banned the export of broken rice to control rising retail prices and ensure an adequate domestic supply. Furthermore, in July of this year, India also banned the export of non-basmati white rice to keep retail prices stable during the upcoming holiday season.
These measures reflect India's commitment to maintaining domestic food price stability while supporting trading partner nations in meeting their needs.
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https://www.glanceng.com/2017/04/24/monday-motivation-how-4-mango-trees-made-me-a-better-person-by-idy/ | 2021-04-19T05:46:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038878326.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419045820-20210419075820-00331.warc.gz | 0.983589 | 455 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__145733286 | en | 1999 my family moved into our new apartment. The were two huge mango trees we inherited. They would fall every spring filling every bag in the house. We would sometimes make plenty mango juice. You just could not go hungry during mango season.
Then suddenly, they stopped fruiting one after the other. Two years passed and we did not eat mango. About 2011, My father then asked that we planted new trees. Ahhh plant new mango trees? When would we ever get to eat from them? To ensure they were planted, he got loggers to cut down the other two. Just to be obedient, we went ahead to plant new mango trees. We were not sure they would make it so we planted 4 trees. My dad would make us manure them sometimes and I’d angrily do it. I knew it would take for ever before the trees started yielding. I would usually stand by them to check our height just to remind me that I was on a hopeless mission.
I had totally forgotten about them all these years and then 2017 came. We noticed the flowers on the trees. The four of them had survived and started fruiting. I stood beside one measuring my height with it one more time. I was no match to the giant it had become. I now enjoy so much mango and I give some out sef.
Its incredible how six years passed and how the seeds we thought would take too long to yield is fruiting in large numbers. Sometimes we feel discouraged because we feel the seeds of success would take too long to yield. Sometimes we feel like we are wasting our time unless we use the short cut. Sometimes we feel we can depend on our inheritance but just like the two trees we came to meet stopped fruiting, those inheritances could fail. We need to plant our seeds now and plant a lot of them incase all do not survive but sometimes, like in the case of our mango trees, all might, and that’s a plus. And if you want your wealth to come fast, simply manure your plants with knowledge and skills and more hardwork… someday, when you have forgotten how it started, your mango would fall in overflowing quantities. Its never too late.
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https://www.nasaharvest.org/project/agrometeorological-earth-observations-indicators | 2024-04-25T11:45:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297292879.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425094819-20240425124819-00125.warc.gz | 0.903779 | 709 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__147181089 | en | The GEOGLAM-NASA Harvest Agrometeorological (AGMET) Earth Observation Indicators utilize a wealth of Earth observation data to provide valuable insights on in-season crop development and current crop conditions at the sub-national scale. Each AGMET Indicator consists of several EO data plots that quantify critical indicators of crop health for a specific region over the cropping season. The AGMET Indicators are being produced for all GEOGLAM Crop Monitor countries and are updated every 7-12 days to ensure that users are provided with the most up to date information.
Satellites are a critical Earth observation tool as they facilitate the remote monitoring of Earth’s climate and environmental patterns, especially for areas that are physically inaccessible. With this information, scientists can closely monitor the indicators of crop health and identify possible early warnings of declining crop conditions.
Displaying climate, environmental, and vegetative variables that impact agricultural outcomes, the AGMET Indicators were born from an agricultural stakeholder-identified need for a simpler way to visualize and monitor crop health throughout the growing season, and with the ultimate goal of identifying potential cropping concerns early on in the season before a food shortage disaster actually materializes. One of the many benefits of agricultural monitoring during the growing season using satellite data is that we can efficiently keep track of how well food production is shaping up compared to previous years. This allows farmers, economists, policymakers, humanitarian agencies, and other agricultural players around the world to more sufficiently plan, ensuring communities do not go hungry and that food markets remain stable.
The AGMET Indicators use satellite data to help the agricultural community monitor crop production as it’s happening and enable mitigation measures to be taken early on as problematic conditions are developing. In order to simplify the complicated interconnected nature of agricultural monitoring data each AGMET Indicator is composed of quantitative plots for: NDVI, recent NDVI 5-year comparisons, evaporative stress index, cumulative precipitation (versus the 5 year mean), daily precipitation, surface soil moisture, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature that are processed over the agricultural baseline datasets from the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor including crop calendars and crop masks.In this way, the AGMET Indicators take the data processing burden off of crop analysts and provide a quick, effective, and easily-digestible means of interpreting massive amounts of global satellite data on croplands as the season progresses.
Additionally, the AGMET Indicators are being produced for each country covered in the GEOGLAM Crop Monitors, which together comprise over 90% of the world’s croplands. Within each country, the AGMET Indicator plots are available for two different regional breakdowns: Admin Level 1 and Crop Monitor regions. The Admin Level 1 regions include the administrative boundaries of the first sub-national level while the Crop Monitor regions include an aggregation admin level 1 or sub-admin level 1 units that share similar agro-climatic growing conditions for crops.
Already, the AGMET graphics are being used to support operational monitoring and are frequently implemented as key evidence in several international reports, including the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor monthly bulletins, Crop Monitor Special Reports featuring areas of developing concern, and in country updates from the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS). To explore the online AGMET Indicators tool, visit https://cropmonitor.org/tools/agmet/. | agronomy |
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https://www.youthforpositivechange.com/post/interview-katie-stagliano-is-planting-seeds-of-hope-with-katie-s-krops | 2024-02-28T19:34:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474744.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228175828-20240228205828-00827.warc.gz | 0.9741 | 1,745 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__57532614 | en | Interview: Katie Stagliano Is Planting Seeds Of Hope With "Katie's Krops"
We had the privilege of speaking with Katie Stagliano - founder and executive chief gardener of Katie's Krops - an organization dedicated to setting up gardens and providing produce for those in need.
Can you start off by telling us the inspiration behind Katie’s Krops?
When I was nine-years-old I received a cabbage seedling as part of a school program. I remember planting the seedling in my backyard, and then coming out every day to water it, fertilize it, and weed around it. I remember watching as the cabbage grew and grew in size. My grandfather and I even built a cage to keep the cabbage safe from deer.
And when my cabbage was fully grown it weighed in at an amazing 40 pounds! So my mom and I contacted Fields to Families, a local organization that helps farmers get crops to organizations that feed the hungry, to see where I could donate my cabbage. They recommended we share my cabbage with a local church. So my family and I brought my cabbage to Tri-County Family Ministries.
When I walked in, I remember seeing this huge line of people waiting for what might be the only meal they would have that day. The guests greeted me and asked if it was me that grew the giant cabbage. And when it was time to eat, everyone thanked me for helping to feed them.
By the way, that one cabbage helped to feed 275 people. And so I thought to myself if a single cabbage could feed 275, how many more could a whole garden feed?
And that was the inspiration for me to start Katie’s Krops.
I started with a garden at my home, and then I eventually went on to start one at school. It wasn’t before long that I realized that the larger and the more gardens one has, the bigger the impact one could have on hunger.
When I started hearing from kids across the country asking how they could help, I decided to start giving grants to other kids to start their own Katie's Krops garden. That was eight years ago. I have built on the model over the past ten years growing to 100 gardens in 30 states.
During the Great Depression, a lot of people began to grow their own crops as a way of sustaining themselves and their families in the face of financial hardship. One can’t help but wonder, in the face of the kinds of climate-related agricultural disasters we’re likely to experience in the near future, if there won’t be a greater focus on local, sustainable crops and “home farming.” From what you have read and seen, how likely is this?
During peak COVID – with stay at home mandates in place – it was often difficult for growers to gain access to their gardens if they weren’t located in their own backyards, so we switched our Katie’s Krops Grower model (which offered funding in the form of gift cards) to all-inclusive Grow At Home kits. This helped to ensure that our younger growers had access to everything they needed to plant gardens in their own backyards. Subsequently, we have decided to keep this model, making it more accessible for young people to start their own gardens and provide for those in need in their communities.
We also launched our Seeds for Change Program in April of 2020, where we ship seeds across the United States to individuals and families free of charge to allow them to plant the seeds of change in their communities. It has been a great way to introduce younger kids and families to gardening while providing fresh vegetables for themselves, their neighbors, and those in need in their communities!
Recently, we have seen a large increase in young people and families who are interested in gardening and it has been so wonderful. We have also seen a large increase in volunteers, many of them young people. I am a firm believer in the power of youth, and I love seeing volunteers as young as 2 coming out to work in the garden and developing a love for gardening.
With rising gas prices, food shortages, and supply-chain issues I believe that there will be an increase in home and community gardens. There is truly nothing better than harvesting produce from your own backyard! There are so many incredible benefits to gardening: it’s good for the environment; it teaches young people how to be good stewards to the Earth; it lets people see where their food comes from; it allows individuals and families to provide for themselves; and eating fresh produce has so many health benefits.
Can you talk a little bit about the therapeutic benefits of gardening and growing your own crops?
There are many therapeutic benefits to gardening! One of our projects is working with a local school for autistic children to create a sensory garden. A sensory garden allows these children to explore sight, touch, taste, and sound in a peaceful environment that does not allow for overstimulation. We also have several Katie’s Krops Growers with special needs who use their gardens as a therapy tool. We had an autistic Katie’s Krops Grower who loved gardening so much he chose it as his vocation!
We are working hard to make our flagship garden handicap accessible and welcome to everyone to come volunteer. The garden is such a magical place and there are so many lessons to be learned there. I firmly believe that there is nothing better than being outside and embracing nature. Far too much of our time is spent behind a screen. We need to break away and get back to our roots, both metaphorically and literally. Digging in the dirt and reconnecting with the earth can be so beneficial for mental health, not to mention you get delicious food in the process.
To date, you’ve managed to set up over one hundred gardens across the U.S. – an astonishing achievement, but one that must have come with a lot of challenges. If you could go back in time and give yourself a piece of advice – knowing all that you know now – what would it be?
If I could go back in time and give myself a piece of advice, it would be to remember that everything happens for a reason. This is something I’ve believed for a long time, but often when we’re faced with challenges, it can be a hard thing to remember.
Over the past fourteen years, I’ve been faced with a tremendous number of obstacles, but I’ve also seen and experienced so many incredible and amazing things.
Ten years ago, I remember walking up to the doors of a local soup kitchen with my mom, a basket of vegetables in hand, and there was a sign that read, “Due to lack of funding, we’ve had to close our doors.” I remember that came as such a shock. Only three days earlier, the soup kitchen had been bustling with activity and now it was closed. And it was at that moment that I knew what I needed to do: I needed to be there for the people who had, just three days earlier, relied on the soup kitchen for food. And that is how I turned one of my greatest obstacles into an opportunity to create positive change: from it, Katie’s Krops Dinners were born.
My friends and I came together, and with the head of food services from my school, we used the vegetables from my garden to create hot, healthy, and free meals for anyone in the community to avail of. The dinners were held at a local church once a month and served anywhere from 150 to 200 guests!
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I felt an urge to do more, and so we transitioned Katie’s Krops Dinners from a sit-down meal services to Katie’s Krops Meal Distribution, a drive-thru style meal service where individuals received meals in to-go boxes through their car windows.
Finally, how can those reading this article support your work?
There are several ways that those reading this article can support us!
We have an Amazon wish list on our website, https://katieskrops.com/the-wish-list/, and we greatly appreciate monetary donations to support our meal distributions and our gardens.
Finally, if you have any extra produce in your gardens, please donate them to a local homeless shelter, soup kitchen or individuals and families struggling with food insecurity in your community. | agronomy |
https://magicmushroomsales.com/product/dutch-king-mexican-spore-syringe-innervisions-10ml/ | 2022-08-19T19:37:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00081.warc.gz | 0.928589 | 110 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__120281952 | en | Spore syringe Psilocybe cubensis Dutch King (Mexican)
Mexican Spore Syringe: Spore syringe Psilocybe is originally from Mexico, but has been cultivated in the Netherlands for so many years that the local variety earned a reputation of its own. The mycelium produces massive yields under a wide variety of conditions.
Substrate: Compost, grain, pasteurized dung, and straw
The temperature during colonization: 28 � 30 Co
The temperature during cropping: 22 � 26 Co | agronomy |
https://ddnews.gov.in/en/cabinet-approves-providing-15000-drones-to-women-self-help-groups/ | 2024-04-22T06:38:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818081.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422051258-20240422081258-00570.warc.gz | 0.90623 | 659 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__79378317 | en | By: Aditya Ahuja
The Union Cabinet has greenlit a visionary scheme aimed at empowering women through technological advancement in the agriculture sector. With an outlay of Rs. 1261 Crore spanning from 2024-25 to 2025-26, this Central Sector Scheme is poised to provide drones to Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) for the purpose of offering rental services to farmers, revolutionizing the landscape of agricultural practices.
“This scheme is important as part of PM Modi's 'lakhpati didi' initiative. Drones play a key role in the services sector. There are about 10 crore women who are part of some Self Help Groups. Through this drone scheme, it has been ensured that they use technology in farming…drones will improve efficiency in spraying fertilisers and pesticides,” Union minister Anurag Thakur said in a press conference while announcing the scheme.
The scheme's core objective revolves around empowering 15,000 selected Women SHGs between 2023-24 and 2025-2026 by equipping them with drones to provide rental services for agricultural purposes. This strategic alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision emphasises the integration of technology, women's empowerment, and agricultural innovation.
The scheme approves holistic interventions by converging the resources and efforts of Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW), Department of Rural development (DoRD) and Department of Fertilizers (DoF), Women SHGs and Lead Fertilizer Companies (LFCs).
Empowerment and Training
Identified clusters conducive to drone usage will be targeted, and 15,000 women SHGs across states will be selected to receive drones. Comprehensive training programs will equip members with drone piloting skills and agricultural expertise, enabling them to provide rental services and support.
Central Financial Assistance covering 80% of the drone cost, up to a maximum of Rs. Eight Lakh, will be extended to the SHGs. The remaining amount can be raised through National Agriculture Infra Financing Facility (AIF), with an interest subvention of 3% on the AIF loan.
Members of SHGs will be trained as drone pilots and technicians, facilitating not just drone operation but also repairs and maintenance, bridging the gap between suppliers and SHGs.
Nano Fertilizer Adoption
The scheme promotes the use of Nano Fertilizers like Nano Urea and Nano DAP through drone services, facilitating efficient pesticide application and fertilizer distribution.
Envisioned as a means of sustainable business and livelihood support, the scheme aims to enable 15,000 SHGs to earn an additional income of at least Rs. One lakh per annum.
Technological Leap in Agriculture
With the infusion of advanced drone technology, the scheme is poised to enhance agricultural efficiency, increase crop yields, and reduce operational costs, thereby benefitting farmers at large.
This scheme stands as a testament to India's commitment to leveraging technology for the betterment of agriculture while empowering women in rural communities. The scheme will help infusing advance technology in agriculture for improved efficiency, enhance crop yield and reduced cost of operation for the benefit of farmers. | agronomy |
https://wecode2018.devpost.com/project-gallery | 2023-09-23T22:21:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923194908-20230923224908-00869.warc.gz | 0.907859 | 321 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__37599583 | en | Devpost for Teams
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A place to give and accept donations for a beautiful community garden
Text message alerts for SUN classes
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Connecting gardens and communities.
Our app motivate users using gamification to increase social engagement in Growing Gardens
A forum for gardeners, organizers, and community members to exchange tools, produce, and ideas.
We've created an accessibility-focused web app that connects users to IRCO Sun Schools and their services.
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Our mission is to reduce waste, promote sustainable choices, while creating a healthy community.
Create a platform to facilitate communication and collect information about Growing Gardens members
A simplified and filtered way to get relevant volunteer opportunities at IRCO.
The Seedsonal Planner is an app that notifies the user to plant when their preferred crops are in season.
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Facilitating face to face produce sharing.
A hub for each district of growing gardens were the community can plan events, share supplies, and connect
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Allows Growing Gardens participants to directly connect and share resources with each other and their communities.
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https://dayoldsalads.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/building-greener-vineyard-by-making-greener/ | 2018-06-22T03:31:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864343.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622030142-20180622050142-00005.warc.gz | 0.954127 | 1,165 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__153869795 | en | Ask yourself this: what does the quintessential vineyard look like when you picture “vineyard” in your mind? I’m willing to bet it’s a sunny, expansive tract with rows upon rows of grapevines neatly spaced across a dirt floor.
Of course, you’re not “wrong” here. That’s certainly what they’ve come to look like. Unfortunately, however, like most conventional industries, it’s horrifically unsustainable, and that image has embedded itself in our minds as what vineyards are supposed to look like.
That being said, it’s only a “problem” insofar as we continue to let it be. Most, if not all, of our industrious ventures have been excessively resource intensive just like this one, but it’s a matter of now recognizing the problem and moving forward with that in theory and – most importantly – in practice.
The first commercial vineyard in the United States started in Pennsylvania in 1793. But it wasn’t until the 1980s when any light was shed on organic or more sustainable farming practice, when the USDA published a report on organic farming. That’s nearly 200 years of the commercial wine industry saying “IDGAF”. Basically.
The biggest problems we see with the original vineyard image, like most other conventional farms, is the monoculture approach. If you have only so many acres of land and you are to grow grapes on it to make wine or to sell those grapes to a vintner, wouldn’t it make sense to only grow grapes and not waste money, time, effort, and space on other crops?
Perhaps that sounds about right, but that’s not how nature works. And unlike most things we’ve built, you can’t just hack nature. At a high level, biodiversity is key to the success of the natural world. Plain and simple. You can’t just grow grapes as a standalone entity. If you try to, that’s where you seemingly need to add herbicides, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers to help it grow, and water it incessantly because it seems it can’t get enough and won’t hold it in. Should you just add some its partner crops, however (like oregano, clover, peas, and beans), and add some compost, you’ll find that these not only help to provide many of the nutrients the grapes need, but also help to retain water in the surrounding soil, prevent erosion, and in turn support many other life forms like birds and bugs that are natural “insecticides”, whose biological systems help to make these systems more self-sustaining. It’s all about the nutrient symbioses that nature, somehow, has figured out how to do, and we decided to fuck with out of our human superiority complex that I think, now, we have realized was idiotic at best.
While it isn’t a hard and fast rule (because one could just seed grass for aesthetic reasons for tours), the greener the vineyard the better. A vineyard that is more greenly landscaped in color is more “green” in the figurative sense. It’s where the term evolved from, so – you get it. A “green”/green vineyard is one that restores natural habitats and biodiversity, and consumes less water and energy. And it’s just as, if not more so, picturesque.
Last Sunday I was at a wine tasting event, and I was actually quite pleasantly surprised by the amount of sustainable and organic wines available at each table. (It should be said that many of these wines were from California, and given its lack of water resources its environmental stance is particularly aggressive.) It seems that, with the rest of the sustainable sustenance movement, I think wine is right up there with it.
Lastly, on the note of “organic” and “sustainable” products, and something to always keep in mind: it is up to the conscientious consumer (you!) to do hir own bit of research, and not simply search for a label on the package or website. Take, for instance, one winery’s product I tried at this event. First of all, it was a damn good wine. Second, it was not certified organic, nor did the vineyard ever want to be. As the rep explained to me, 99% of the time it is functioning at or above organic and sustainable standards. However, should there be an infestation, fungus, or other small natural disaster that jeopardizes the whole year’s crop, the vineyard will step in with the least amount of synthetic product necessary to save their crop for that year (and the income/livelihood of the people it supports).
It’s just like an incredibly significant number of small farms around the US (and the world) whose farming practice meets or even far exceeds any USDA Organic certification, but it simply cannot afford to have the USDA audit its practices for thousands of dollars and a stamp in return, or similarly be pigeonholed into losing a whole year’s income (or more) because it can’t, one time, use a little bit of product without losing all cred. But with just a bit of research or a few more questions (get to know your farmer/brewery/winemaker/butcher!), you can find out things beyond oft misleading labels, or the lack thereof – and build strong communities, too. | agronomy |
http://gregslistdc.com/event/2017/fall-harvest-tour | 2018-07-17T11:05:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589710.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717105812-20180717125812-00226.warc.gz | 0.925964 | 410 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__89791038 | en | Ayrshire Farm Hosts Fall Harvest Tour
Experience the bucolic fields of Virginia’s first farm to be Certified Organic and Certified Humane
Ayrshire Farm (21846 Trappe Rd., Upperville, Va.) will host a Fall Harvest Tour designed to showcase their locally produced, humanely raised heritage breed animals including turkeys, cattle, pigs and chickens in their natural habitat. On Saturday, Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests will enjoy guided tractor tours every 30 minutes, family activities, including face painting, and food concessions.
Guests will be directed to park in one of Ayrshire Farm’s lower fields before being transported to the main courtyard. Via the courtyard, guests can walk the grounds, tour the stables and catch the tractor tour of the 1,000 acre farm. Farm staff will be available for questions about Ayrshire’s operation and the value in promoting local, sustainable farming methods.
Ayrshire Farm’s Fall Harvest Tour will be hosted rain or shine. Please dress appropriately for the outdoors. The event is free and guests are encouraged to RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ayrshire-farm-fall-family-harvest-tour-tickets-36873565828?aff=es2.
About Ayrshire Farm
Ayrshire Farm, located in Upperville, Virginia, was the first Virginia farm to be certified both organic and humane. The farm produces a variety of meats and organic produce supplied to top regional restaurants, including its own Hunter’s Head Tavern, and Gentle Harvest. Ayrshire Farm’s mission is to farm sustainably and profitably, promoting the benefits of locally produced, humanely raised meats and organic produce to the local consumer community through education, outreach and example. For more information on Ayrshire Farm and its sister companies, please visit www.ayrshirefarm.com. | agronomy |
https://www.sportsgamblingpodcast.com/2022/10/02/2022-shriners-childrens-open-preview-and-betting-strategies/ | 2023-03-31T20:11:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949678.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331175950-20230331205950-00336.warc.gz | 0.950724 | 1,983 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__289943856 | en | The fall season on the PGA Tour rolls on with a to Sin City! A decent field travels to TPC Summerlin for the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open. As always, here is your early deep-dive on the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open and a preview of how to bet. In addition, listen below to the Golf Gambling Podcast for more information about golf betting.
2022 Shriners Children’s Open Preview – The Field
Headlining the field this week is Patrick Cantlay. TPC Summerlin is one of his best tracks. Cantlay grabbed his first PGA Tour victory at the 2018 Shriners Children’s Open. He’s followed that up with a pair of runner ups and a T8 in 2021. He’ll be the overwhelming favorite to win this event again. And the books would be foolish to put a plus sign in front of any positional props on him.
Other notables in the field include defending champion Sungjae Im, Tom Kim, and Mito Pereira.
For the full field, click here.
2022 Shriners Children’s Open Preview – The Golf Course
TPC Summerlin first opened in 1991 in the outskirts of Las Vegas. It was designed by Bobby Weed, who is a Pete Dye protégé. Bobby Weed is a very respected golf course architect and is noted for several high-profile golf courses. Some of his work includes TPC River Highlands, the Dye Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass, Grove XXIII (Michael Jordan’s new golf course in Jupiter, FL), and renovations to Medalist Golf Club and Timuquana Country Club.
The golf course itself runs just a little over 7,200 yards on the scorecard. Naturally, the golf course is sodded with bermudagrass fairways and rough. If the climate is cool enough, the tournament will overseed the fairways with ryegrass as the bermuda turns dormant. But in early October, temperatures are still warm enough to promote healthy bermudagrass growth. As such, the fairways and rough will be in their natural state.
However, the greens are bentgrass and must be carefully maintained by the superintendents in the hot Las Vegas climate. The greens typically run around 11 on the stimpmeter. That is slightly below average on the PGA Tour.
While Bobby Weed did a nice job blending the golf course to the surrounding desert landscape, it’s about your standard run-of-the-mill PGA Tour venue.
Rocky waste areas are utilized as either forced carries or as natural hazards around greens. There is also a good use of elevation changes around the golf course. There is a good variety of uphill and downhill holes, along with some elevated green complexes. This can be challenging for the mere mortals who play it every day.
But not for those on the PGA Tour. With elevation and very wide fairways, players can take pretty much all the trouble off the tee out of play. That shortens up the golf course significantly and yields a ton of short approach shots. Players then fire into huge, relatively flat greens for great looks at birdie.
And birdies are plentiful in this tournament. Sungjae Im won the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open at -22. The last two tournaments before that resulted in a playoff where everyone sat at -23 after 72 holes. Bryson DeChambeau won in 2018 with a winning score of -21. And since 2010, the winning score has eclipsed -20 ten times. The only time the tournament showed teeth was in 2017 when Patrick Cantlay won the event at -9. That year, the golf course was unseasonably cold and windy, which is the only defense it has against the players.
The forecast calls for dome like conditions. Temperatures will hang in the upper 80’s with very light winds. Expect this to be a birdie bonanza once again.
Let’s begin the betting strategies by some relevant facts and statistics about TPC Summerlin.
1. TPC Summerlin is a Par 71 and runs 7,255 yards on the scorecard. Per DataGolf’s adjusted yardage for where players hit their tee shots too, the golf course is shortened to just under 7,100 yards. And because the golf course is at approximately 2,700 feet in elevation, TPC Summerlin plays really, really short.
2. The golf course received some new grass ahead of the 2022 tournament. The greens removed the old strain of bentgrass and planted a new strain called Dominator. However, the greens itself weren’t rebuilt so there shouldn’t be any changes to the sloping or its firmness. Meanwhile, the fairways replaced the old bermuda with a new strain called Bandera. This particular strain of bermuda causes the ball to sit up very nicely, which was not the case for the old strain. This might help players who historically struggle hitting approach shots off bermuda lies that tend to lay down a bit.
3. As mentioned previously, the pros rip up TPC Summerlin. The average score per round the last three years was approximately -2.1 per round. Since 2015, TPC Summerlin ranks as the 6th easiest golf course of venues that have hosted a PGA Tour event at least three times.
4. TPC Summerlin is very easy off the tee. It ranks as the 3rd easiest golf course off the tee of venues that have hosted a PGA Tour event at least three times since 2015. While driving accuracy rates are only about PGA Tour average at TPC Summerlin, the ability to receive huge distance booms thanks to the elevation levels the playing field for everyone.
5. Since 2015, the field average in Greens in Regulation % is just under 75%. That’s the 6th highest rate of all venues that have hosted at least three PGA Tour events since 2015. All round players will hold short irons into huge greens. A PGA Tour professional really has to struggle not to hit greens at a high rate this weekend.
6. If there is a defense to the golf course, it’s the greenside surrounds. Scrambling from the fairway, rough and out of a bunker are some of the tougher rates on the PGA Tour. It makes sense because a few greens have some pretty tricky and severe roll-off areas. But because the field hits greens at such a high clip, scrambling doesn’t factor into someone’s round too often. However, the ability to get up and down could be a key tie breaker towards winning and losing.
7. As mentioned earlier, TPC Summerlin features very benign green complexes. It’s one of the easiest golf courses for putts greater than 5 feet on the PGA Tour. Without much undulations to the greens, players have a lot of straightish putts at TPC Summerlin. Great putters, with excellent speed control and reading abilities, especially on bentgrass definitely can separate themselves from a poor putter at this event.
As hinted to many times in this column, players hit a ton of short approach shots into the greens at TPC Summerlin. Here’s the approach shot distribution chart from last year. This is a great preview of what to expect at the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open.
Last week at the Sanderson, targeting players with good proximity and scoring rates from inside 175 yards was a good strategy. Roll that same strategy out again this week.
Lastly, here are the skillsets that are most favored at TPC Summerlin. This previews the type of golfer to target at the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open.
As referenced earlier, the playing field is leveled off the tee at TPC Summerlin. Short drivers, long drivers, accurate drivers, inaccurate drivers – all of them stand a chance to contend at TPC Summerlin. Off-the-tee performance shouldn’t matter a ton into your handicapping strategy this week.
There’s a slight correlation in good iron players having success at TPC Summerlin, but it isn’t a pre-requisite. Anytime a golf course features shorter approach shots, that shrinks the gap between the best ball-strikers and the worst. Your handicap this week should include proximity and scoring statistics from under 175 yards this week.
There is a higher than normal correlation in good scramblers faring well at TPC Summerlin. As mentioned earlier, despite the high greens in regulation rates the ability to get up and down to save strokes could be an important tie breaker at TPC Summerlin. The greenside surrounds also are some of the toughest on the PGA Tour. Around-the-green performance is an underrated area to look at this week.
Lastly, the Shriners Children’s Open essentially turns into a putting contest. As such, there’s a higher than normal correlation of good putters faring well at the event. Players who struggle putting, particularly on bentgrass surfaces, have their work cut out for them at this event.
Follow the tips in this preview, and you should put together a successful betting card for the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open.
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https://nuicobaltdesigns.com/products/nui-cobalt-first-harvest-grain | 2022-06-25T16:24:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036077.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625160220-20220625190220-00650.warc.gz | 0.837992 | 88 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__89000415 | en | First Harvest: Grain
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http://crop-enhancement.com/ | 2016-10-24T10:25:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719564.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.887924 | 349 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__42487817 | en | MLS Capital Fund II (co-managed by Spruce Capital Partners and Xeraya Capital) and 1955 Capital co-led the round, with additional financing from Bandgap Ventures. Original investor Phoenix Venture Partners also participated. This new funding enables us to accelerate development and commercialization of our sustainable agrochemical products.
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Improving Your Harvest with CropCoat™ Platform
Our CropCoat platform uses nontoxic formulations to shield crops from pests and environmental damage. It forms a film that modifies plant surfaces (leaves, stems, fruit, and seeds) to improve their resistance to pests and diseases and to decrease the need for harmful pesticides. By simply applying a microlayer of CropCoat to plants, farmers can combat insect penetration and fungus growth. Successful field trials show that CropCoat is easy to spray, and more robust, safe, and effective than other commercial products.
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Agrochemical runoff damages the environment and reduces crop profitability. Our Tunable Release platform controls the release of a wide variety of active ingredients. It retains the active ingredients where they are needed, and prevents their dispersion into the environment. With less runoff, our formulations protect the environment, lower costs, and increase yields. | agronomy |
https://rashms.com/blog/rational-routing-in-infoworks-icm/ | 2023-12-10T17:10:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00206.warc.gz | 0.913966 | 495 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__243296063 | en | In addition to various unit hydrograph transform methods and SWMM nonlinear reservoir runoff method, InfoWorks ICM also has a built-in rational routing model for rainfall-runoff process. To utilize the Modified Rational Method hydrograph concept (Figure 1), the InfoWorks rational routing model first converts a continuous rainfall hyetograph into discrete ones with the same rainfall duration of TOC. For each discretized rainfall duration of TOC, the sub-hydrograph will be generated according to the procedures of Modified Rational Method and the final total hydrograph is the sum of all the sub-hydrographs (Figure 2).
The rational routing model only needs two parameters of a subcatchment – time of concentration (TOC) and runoff coefficient (C), which are relatively easy to estimate given a subcatchment. The rational routing model implementation in InfoWorks ICM is explained below.
First, define a rational routing runoff surface as shown in Figure 3. For this surface, set the routing model as “Rational” and the runoff volume type as “Fixed”. Enter the Fixed runoff coefficient as the rational method runoff coefficient C (Figure 3) or 1.0 (Figure 7).
Second, create a land use using the runoff surface created above and set its area percentage as 100% (Figure 4).
Third, in subcatchment property editor, choose “Rational” as routing method and enter time of concentration in minutes (Figure 5). Make sure the land use is selected as the one created above (Figure 6).
The rational method coefficient is entered as “Fixed runoff coefficient” in Figure 3. Alternatively, calculate the subcatchment contributing area as C x A to account for rational method runoff coefficient C (Figure 7), and at the same time set the Fixed runoff coefficient as 1.0 for the rational routing runoff surface. This is useful if different subcatchments have different runoff coefficient C and you don’t want to create a runoff surface for each subcatchment individually.
An example project was set up using Rational Routing Model with TOC of 60 min and its runoff hydrograph is shown in Figure 8 under a 24hr SCS storm event.
Like the traditional rational method, the rational routing model is applicable for a small subcatchment area not larger than 200 acres (some regulating agencies allow this upper limit up to 640 acres). | agronomy |
http://restoblomov.ru/en/gallery-en/ | 2018-11-16T08:05:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742981.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116070420-20181116092420-00364.warc.gz | 0.981024 | 76 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__14684229 | en | “The supervision of food was the first and the principal domestic preoccupation of Oblomovka. What calves were not fattened for the year's festivals! What poultry was not reared! What forethought and care and skill were not devoted to the consumption of comestibles! (“Oblomov” by Ivan Goncharov). | agronomy |
https://helihub.com/2019/11/22/john-deere-and-volocopter-collaborate-on-agricultural-drone/ | 2020-07-10T12:08:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655908294.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200710113143-20200710143143-00456.warc.gz | 0.90146 | 767 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__102299587 | en | John Deere and Volocopter are presenting the first large drone adapted for agricultural use at AGRITECHNICA. A demonstrator model of the VoloDrone equipped with a John Deere crop protection sprayer, which is ready for its first field flight, can be seen in the Future Technology Zone in Hall 13. Featuring a potential payload of 200kg, the VoloDrone is able to cover an enormous area, especially under difficult operating conditions.
This first large agricultural drone is the result of a collaboration between John Deere, who bring knowledge of farmers’ needs, and the Urban Air Mobility pioneer Volocopter, whose flying taxis form the technological basis of the VoloDrone.
Large drones are becoming increasingly important, not just in the field of logistics but also in passenger transport. At the same time, small drones are already being used in agriculture for stock control and mapping, for example.
Both companies see great potential for the VoloDrone’s use in agriculture, with capabilities ranging from difficult topography to increased efficiency in the use of crop protection agents, sowing seeds or frost control. The development of this demonstrator is a first step towards bringing this innovative technology closer to commercial application after full testing in the field.
The VoloDrone is powered by 18 rotors with an overall diameter of 9.2 m, and features a fully electric drive using exchangeable lithium-ion batteries. One battery charge allows a flight time of up to 30 minutes, and the VoloDrone can be operated remotely or automatically on a pre-programmed route.
The drone frame is equipped with a flexible standardized payload attachment system. This means that different devices can be mounted on the frame depending on the application. For crop protection, the drone is equipped with two capacity tanks, a pump, and a spray bar.
Thanks to the drone’s low flight altitude, a very large area coverage of up to 6ha/hr can be achieved and spray management improved. This makes the VoloDrone a sustainable, precise, and cost-effective alternative to helicopters. Due to the system’s high flexibility and GPS control, more selective area-specific treatments are also possible.
Appropriate flight and application tests will be carried out with the demonstrator VoloDrone sprayer over the next growing season.
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https://unintentionalprepper.com/prepper-herb-garden-how-to-grow-your-own-herbs-for-survival/ | 2023-09-27T03:56:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00865.warc.gz | 0.935343 | 4,872 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__75249718 | en | If you’ve ever asked yourself how you can ensure that you’re prepared in case of disasters, one way is to create a prepper herb garden. Growing your own herbs is not only an easy and sustainable way to include fresh ingredients in your meals, but it’s also a timesaving and cost-effective way of stocking up on much-needed supplies in case of an emergency. In this post, we’ll cover the basics of prepper herb gardening: how to plant, how to care for and harvest your herbs, and how to store them for future use in times of need. Whether you’re an experienced prepper or just starting to prepare, having your own prepper herb garden will give you peace of mind, knowing that you’ll have some of the most important herbs to get you through any disaster. So, read on to learn more about growing your own herbs for survival purposes.
Begin by researching the best herbs for prepper gardens and what conditions they need to thrive. Then determine the layout of your garden and which herbs will be planted in each area, taking into account proper spacing and light requirements.
Prepper Herb Garden Tips
Creating a prepper herb garden can provide a key safety net in times of trouble. There are several tips that can help ensure success and longevity for your prepper herb garden.
When planning and planting, start small so as to build experience and be sure of the desired outcomes. Research hardy and long-lasting herbs such as oregano, thyme, rosemary, sage and chives, which are known to have no problem growing in gardens. Choose open spots to grow your herbs with access to light and air. To learn more about your herbs’ needs, carefully read their seed packets or look up the plants online.
When planting seeds, follow instructions accordingly because germination happens at different temperatures and depths depending on the variety of seed used. Planting in nutrient-rich soil is essential since herbs need plenty of nutrients to continue growing through their entire lifetime. For example, many herbs like evenly moist soils with good drainage; too much or not enough water will affect the health of your herbs. Taking these preventative steps before transplanting or sowing helps guarantee success when growing your prepper herb garden.
Another important tip for maintaining a healthy prepper herb garden is weeding regularly. Early identification and control of weeds ensures their roots don’t spread into the soil, out-compete other plants for nutritional resources and sunlight, and attract pests and diseases with their presence. If you notice pests surrounding your garden, take immediate action by researching efficient remedies for removal without chemicals whenever possible. Insects like worms nourish the soil while signifying overall healthy growth; luckily, many beneficial insects exist that balance off destructive pests when controlled properly.
With careful planning, location choice, knowledge of nutrients needed and maintenance tactics; it’s easy to reap great rewards from an established prepper herb garden that is reliable and productive in any situation! Now let’s move on to the next section to discuss important factors such as location selection, soil types and fertilizers necessary for a successful prepper herb garden setup.
Location, Soil Types and Fertilizer
Location, Soil Types, and Fertilizer.
When deciding on where to create a prepper herb garden, it is important to consider the climate, soil type and fertility of the area. A perfect location should be in full sun with well-draining soil. While herbs are generally considered hardy plants, they will not thrive in muddy or sloppy areas with limited access to sunlight. An ideal spot for a prepper herb garden would likely be on the south side of a home or structure, facing southeast so it gets maximum sunlight without too much direct light in the afternoon.
When selecting soil for your prepper herb garden, look for quality soil that has not been tampered with fertilizers or treated with chemicals. Otherwise, your herbs may be negatively affected due to changes in pH levels or nutrient levels that are not ideal for plant growth and health. If you do need to amend your soil with organic matter or fertilizer, research what type of fertilizer your specific herbs need and use the recommended amount to ensure healthy growth.
The debate over whether or not to use fertilizer in a prepper herb garden is ongoing: Some proponents argue that organic fertilizers provide essential nutrients and improve drainage, while others suggest minimizing extra inputs into the system by relying only on natural sources like compost and mulch. No matter which side of this debate you choose to stand by, it is important to take into account environmental conditions and soil properties before adding anything potentially harmful to the environment.
To wrap up this section on location, soil types and fertilizer for creating a prepper herb garden, keep in mind what kind of climate your area has and how much sun exposure you can get when choosing the best spot for planting. Additionally, take into account soil conditions and if you decide to add organic matter or fertilizer make sure it is within the recommended range for optimal growth. In our next section we’ll explore essential growing supplies that are needed to build a successful prepper herb garden.
Essential Growing Supplies
Having the proper growing supplies is essential to any successful herb garden. It is important to prepare for the needs of the specific herb species you plan to grow, taking into consideration their preferences for water, temperature, light, and soil. While some preppers choose to create a comprehensive self-sustaining garden filled with multiple plants that can provide all necessary resources for survival, others may prefer to purchase what they need from garden centers or shops as needed. For more experienced growers, this may involve natural fertilizers such as compost and minerals that are found in soil near freshwater streams.
When selecting growing supplies and equipment, preppers should ensure their items are of high quality and appropriate for the climate they live in. Temperature fluctuations, pests, and disease-causing organisms all affect the health of the herbs and should be taken into account when selecting items such as gardening tools, seed trays, pots and other containers. Choosing non-toxic materials such as terracotta, ceramic or plastic pots is important because they last longer and won’t harm the environment.
Due to the unpredictable nature of natural disasters, preppers may also find it beneficial to have mini greenhouses right on hand in case of emergency scenarios. These greenhouses can provide added protection for plants from floods and storms while still allowing a fair amount of light indoors. Other items such as shade cloths can also be used to help protect herbs from intense sunlight or windy conditions.
When deciding which supplies to include in your herb garden kit, it’s important to consider how much space you’ll need for storage purposes. It’s equally essential to determine how much time you’re willing to spend on a daily basis tending to your herb garden so that you don’t become overwhelmed by the work load. With these factors in mind, preppers will be better equipped with the information they need to purchase quality supplies while keeping within budget.
The next step in establishing an effective Prepper Herb Garden is understanding exactly what equipment, plants, pots, and seeds are needed in order to create a successful growing experience.
Equipment, Plants, Pots and Seeds
Having the right equipment is essential for any successful herb garden prepper project. For basic set up, you will need good quality pots, soil, water and a wide selection of herbs and spices. Depending on your location and the area you are growing in, it may be necessary to also include grow lights, shade cloths and a greenhouse.
When deciding which plants to grow for survival, choose those that will produce edible or medicinal results. Herbs like oregano, mint, basil and parsley are all great choices as they can be used for flavoring food, medicinal preparations or teas. Some argue that perennials-herbs which grow from bulbs and last throughout the winter-are best options because they are less likely to die when left outside in cold temperatures. However, it is important to take into account the seasonality of each plant when selecting your herbs for prepping. In climates with short growing seasons it might make sense to prioritize annuals so that you can harvest more than one crop over the course of a year.
Pots and containers should be chosen carefully so as not to inhibit their growth; clay ones are porous and ideal for allowing roots to breathe while plastic pots retain moisture better but they can lead to root rot if drainage isn’t adequate. Additionally, larger pots (15-20 cm) are better as they provide more room for roots to develop – this also applies when planting in open ground as well!
The type of seed you invest in is just as important as everything else: look for non-GMO heirloom varieties which are further certified organic if possible. While some may cost more initially, the reward will be present in higher yields and better tasting crops at the end of the season.
Having discussed equipment, plants and pots/containers needed for a successful prepper herb garden, next we dive into what an optimal environment looks like for planting and harvesting your herbs.
Planting and Harvesting
When it comes to planting and harvesting prepper herb gardens, having the right strategy can be key. Depending on where you live, your growing season may vary drastically. For example, those living in colder climates need to sow herb seeds indoors a few weeks before the last frost to ensure optimal growth. Conversely, those living in warmer regions can plant herbs directly outdoors once the soil temperature has risen.
If you’re looking for a head start, buying potted herbs from nurseries is a good option if you don’t have time to grow them from seed. Potted plants offer ease and convenience, and many nurseries offer heirloom varieties. The downside, with potted herbs is that many of them are grown with chemical fertilizers or pesticides, which could harm you if used in food preparation or healing applications.
The best way to harvest herbs is by cutting off the leaves just above a node (where the leaf meets the stem). This encourages new growth and protects the health of the plants. To dry harvested herbs correctly, hang them in bunches in an airy, shady location out of direct sunlight until they feel dry and brittle to touch. Once fully dried, you can store them in sealed containers away from heat and light sources until ready for use.
Now that we’ve discussed planting and harvesting techniques for prepper herb gardens, let’s move onto some other considerations: local plants, sunlight and water requirements.
Local Plants, Sunlight and Water
When it comes to prepping your own herb garden, there are many factors to consider. The most important of these include the types of local plants that work best in your region, the amount of sunlight they will need to properly grow, and the amount of water needed for optimal growth.
When selecting local plants for a prepper herb garden, it is essential to ensure that the herbs you choose can survive in the climate you live in. You must take into consideration what temperature range and environment best suit your chosen herbs. Each species has different needs when it comes to setting up this type of environment, so do your research before purchase. Additionally, the soil should provide enough nutrients and be well-draining so that the plant is able to receive all the benefits from waterings. Some people suggest that it’s best to mix existing soil with compost or fertiliser to increase fertility levels.
Most herbs will grow in either full sun or partial shade, but some require more direct sunlight than others. It is important to check which type of light exposure is best for each individual herb before planting them and adjusting their light exposure accordingly. As for watering requirements, it depends on the type of herb and its environment. Most herbs prefer moist soil but it is also important not to overwater them; otherwise the roots could become overwhelmed and die off.
It is important to keep track of your garden’s water needs – dry conditions can result in stressed-out plants while excessive water could lead to disease or mould development. However, as you learn more about local plants’ preferences for light and water over time, you will begin to understand how everything works together and develop a routine that fits with your lifestyle.
Understanding the specific needs of various local plants when it comes to sunlight and watering is an essential part of creating a holistic approach to prepper gardening that takes into account local climates and survival considerations in equal measure. Now that we have a better understanding of how these factors affect our gardens, let us move on to discuss the nutritional benefits of incorporating herbs into one’s prepping plans.
Nutritional Benefits of Herbs
As preppers, it is important to consider the nutritional benefits of growing herbs in our gardens. Herbs are not only packed with flavor, but they contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are beneficial for human health. Many herbs also have medicinal properties and can help reduce inflammation and support a healthy digestive system.
For example, basil offers high levels of vitamin K and iron. Parsley is full of flavonoids and is believed to help reduce inflammation associated with arthritis. Cilantro is a powerful detoxifier and anti-inflammatory agents which makes it beneficial for treating allergies or skin conditions. Oregano can help boost the immune system, aid digestion, reduce joint pain and fatigue, and combat bacteria and viruses.
In addition to these nutritional benefits, herbs can provide an important source of sustenance in times of emergency. By growing your own herb garden for survival purposes, you ensure that you have an abundant supply of fresh herbs on hand at all times—which can be especially useful in case of natural disasters or food shortages. That being said, it is important to remember that consuming large amounts of fresh herbs over extended periods may cause gastrointestinal distress or allergic reactions if the individual has a sensitivity to certain herbs.
Given the vast array of nutritional benefits offered by herbs as well as their capabilities as a source of sustenance in times of crisis, it’s easy to see why building a prepper herb garden is such an appealing option for many individuals looking to get started with preparedness planning.
With this in mind, let us now turn our attention to DIY hydroponics and greenhouses—two important tools that any aspiring prepper should be aware of in order to maximize success when tending their herb garden.
- Herbs such as basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and parsley are essential in a prepper herb garden.
- A study published in 2017 found that planting a variety of perennial herb species is essential to ensure a sustainable harvest in a prepper garden.
- According to the National Center for Home Food Preservation, aside from herbs, vegetables such as onions, garlic, and potatoes are also important components of a prepper herb garden.
Most Important Points to Remember
Growing herbs in a garden can provide nutritional benefits and medicinal properties that are key for survival in emergency situations or natural disasters. Aware of potential sensitivity or reactions, it is important for preppers to be aware of DIY hydroponics and greenhouses to maximize success when tending the garden.
DIY Hydroponics and Greenhouses
DIY hydroponics and greenhouses can be a great way to help ensure the success of your prepper herb garden. Hydroponic systems provide an efficient way to both water and fertilize plants without worrying about soil contamination, while greenhouses offer protection from adverse weather conditions that may disrupt growth or affect harvest yield.
For those with an appetite for DIY projects, setting up a hydroponic system or building a small greenhouse is not too difficult, and could potentially save dollars in the long run by cutting back on fertilizer or water costs. However, hydroponic and greenhouse gardening does come with a few challenges: you’ll need a reliable source of light if you don’t have natural sunlight coming in, and controlling humidity and temperature can be tricky as well. Additionally, there will likely be more upfront costs involved in creating and maintaining these systems.
Overall, both systems can add tremendous value to your prepper herb garden if you’ve got the resources and enthusiasm for them. DIY hydroponics and greenhouses require careful planning ahead of time, but once the systems are operational they can pay off in increased yields and reduced maintenance.
Next we’ll look at trouble-shooting pests and disease that may threaten your prepper herb garden.
Trouble-Shooting Pests and Disease
Pests and disease can be a major issue for any type of gardening, but particularly for prepper herb gardens. Plant disease is often caused by environmental stress, such as too much or too little water or sunlight. Pests, on the other hand, invade gardens and have to be managed appropriately in order to protect plant health. Knowing how to address both of these problems is key to growing a successful prepper herb garden.
When it comes to trouble-shooting pests and disease, there are two main strategies: natural methods versus chemical solutions. Natural methods include using beneficial insects such as ladybugs and praying mantises to reduce pest numbers or introducing predators like chickens to help with pest management. Other natural methods include crop rotation and companion planting. Chemical solutions include pesticides and herbicides, which may provide quick results but can be harmful to the environment if used improperly.
The best practice when attempting to manage pests and disease in a prepper herb garden is to use a combination of natural methods and chemical solutions. Integrating both approaches gives growers the best chance of success in protecting the plants from pests and diseases while also avoiding negative environmental impacts from overuse of chemicals.
Finally, sustainable practices are an important factor in overall food security for prepper herb gardens. In the next section, we will discuss what sustainability means for prepper gardens and how implementing sustainable practices can lead to healthier soils, longer harvest periods, and improved yields.
Sustainable Practices and Food Security
Sustainable practices and food security are two important concepts when it comes to prepping and preparing for a potential disaster. Growing a prepper herb garden is one way to ensure that you will have access to essential herbs in the event of an emergency. This type of gardening practice also helps to promote sustainable agriculture, which involves using land efficiently and responsibly in order to produce healthy crops without depleting resources or damaging the environment.
Food security is another crucial focus for preppers. In the event of a natural disaster or other emergency, having access to fresh, nutrient-dense food can be essential for survival. A prepper herb garden allows you to cultivate your own herbs that can be used as part of a healthy diet, ensuring that you have access to food even if traditional sources become unavailable.
With sustainable practices and food security in mind, it’s important to consider where and how you obtain seeds for your prepper herb garden. Non-GMO (genetically modified organism) and heirloom varieties are generally the best choices, as they are not only more nutritious, but also support organic farming practices. Furthermore, purchasing from local nurseries or from seed savers is a more sustainable option than buying from large-scale commercial companies, as local businesses tend to use fewer resources and their produce is often grown with eco-friendly methods. Also consider planting native herbs whenever possible, as this will help conserve biodiversity while supporting pollinators and local ecosystems.
While it is important to be mindful of sustainable practices when growing your own herbs for survival, it’s equally important to recognize the potential food security benefits that a prepper herb garden can provide in the event of an emergency situation. Being able to produce your own food source regardless of outside circumstances can bring peace of mind and improved nutrition during difficult times. As such, preppers should take the time to consider both sustainability and food security when creating their own prepper herb garden plan.
Commonly Asked Questions
What are the best growing strategies for prepper herb gardens?
The best growing strategies for prepper herb gardens will depend on the location and climate of the garden. For areas with hot summers, strategize for high temperatures and plenty of sunlight. Choose fast-growing, heat-tolerant herbs like oregano and thyme, as well as more delicate ones like basil and mint. Containers or raised beds can help better manage soil temperature, facilitate drainage, and allow you to rotate plants if necessary.
In cooler climates, consider putting up a cold frame or hoop house to protect the herbs from early frosts and heavy rains. Grow hardy herbs such as rosemary and sage that can tolerate the elements. Consider companion planting – this is a great way to boost the flavors of certain herbs while also providing some disease resistance. Planting companion flowers near your herbs will also attract beneficial insects like pollinators which will help your garden flourish.
What materials will I need for creating a prepper herb garden?
The materials you will need for creating your own prepper herb garden are fairly simple. You’ll need some soil and compost, a plant container (pots, trays, etc.), some natural fertilizer, gardening tools (trowel, shovel, garden rake, etc.), organic mulch and some water. To ensure ideal growing conditions, you may also want to invest in a greenhouse as well as shade cloth and heating or cooling systems if necessary. If growing outdoors, be sure to choose a location with plenty of sunlight and good drainage.
For any prepper herb garden to flourish, the right balance between light and moisture is essential. Depending on the type of herbs you’re growing, they will require different amounts of light and water so it’s important to ensure that your plants have what they need. Fertilizing your plants with a nutrient-rich soil will provide them with the nutrients they need for healthy growth over time. Additionally, you may want to consider using natural fertilizers such as composted animal manure, fish powder or seaweed extract to promote optimal growth. Lastly, adding a layer of organic mulch around your plants can help maintain soil moisture and reduce weed growth.
What herbs should I consider for my prepper herb garden?
The best herbs for a prepper herb garden depend on what you plan to use them for. Some easy-to-grow and highly versatile herbs that should be considered include thyme, rosemary, mint, oregano, chives, basil, lavender, sage, and bay leaves. All of these herbs are hardy and require minimal care and attention, making them great options for those who want to grow their own herbs for emergency survival.
Thyme is a great choice for its culinary versatility; it can be used in stews, soups, and sauces, making it one of the most important herbs in any pantry. Mint is also incredibly useful; it can be brewed into teas or added to salads to give a fresh flavor. Oregano is excellent for enhancing the flavor of dishes like pizza and pasta sauce or as an ingredient in salad dressings.
Basil not only tastes great but has antibacterial properties which make it a must-have for food preservation. Sage is excellent for healing wounds or digestive problems due to its natural anti-inflammatory properties. Lavender is great for its calming effects as well as its ability to repel insects. Chives are great for adding texture and color to any dish while bay leaves are necessary for flavoring soups and stocks.
No matter what you plan to use your prepper herb garden for, these eight herbs are an essential part of any home gardener’s arsenal and should not be overlooked when considering your survival options. | agronomy |
https://www.urantiacarnivores.com/petiolaris-complex-hybrids/ | 2022-05-24T00:53:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662562106.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220523224456-20220524014456-00759.warc.gz | 0.957629 | 631 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__198551440 | en | There are 14 species officially classified and documented in the petiolaris complex. Many argue there are more than 14 that need to be documented and specified as its own species. Many of these, of course, are considered hybrids since they are not officially classified. This is only my opinion on the matter, but none-the-less, it makes producing and growing hybrids a very fun part of this hobby. Our breeding program is based on it, and one day we hope to have our own. Besides the fun debate on what is a hybrid and what should be a species, is the fun of combining two species to create a perfect mix of the two parents. The idea of a perfect mix is in the eye of the beholder. The most important factor that really needs to be taken into consideration is if the two parent’s parents care does not contradict, which can make the care of the hybrid very hard. Those hybrids we do not sell.
Overall, our main objective in creating Drosera petiolaris complex hybrids is to combine a perfect combination of the two parents characteristics, while also considering the ease of care inherited by their offspring. The first obvious decision made is what two plants would look awesome together. Imagine the thin needle like petioles of a Drosera aff. paradoxa “swamp form”. It’s long woody stem with aired gaps between each leaf. Now imagine that same stature and growth and then add large kidney shaped traps from a falconeri. That would look awesome, right? To even achieve that look so far seems to be impossible, but we aren’t giving up. The second thing to consider when making a hybrid is the ease of growth for the offspring. Many swamp form paradoxa die immediately after producing seeds, but the falconeri just has a dormant life cycle. Both are easy to care for, but to achieve the look we want, we will have to sacrifice one of those growth cycles.
Another thing to consider when making a hybrid is to try and go with one that happens naturally in their habitat. This is achieved when two species are from the same location of Australia. Their care will almost be identical. We can’t give away our breeding program secret, but making sure two species from the same location is always introduced into our final ideal plant. All of this really sums up to is producing and offering a hybrid that will not I’ve our customers a struggle to grow. That is why most, if not all, our hybrids are easy to grow.
The greatest pleasure in making your own hybrid is how each seed from the same pod can produce different looking plants with different growing conditions needed. All our hybrids are divisions of seed grown plants or pure seed grown plants, so they will do great in any breeding program. We have already did all the work for you in establishing an easy to care for plant with each hybrid having great characteristics to jump start your next idea for a new species. We just hope you give us a huge shout out if you ever achieve that great accomplishment.
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We helped with many different tasks on the farm. There was a lot of painting to be done, so we spent several days painting the different houses. Unfortunately, we couldn’t finish the job due to excessive rain.
This did, however, give us time to help with picking potatoes and help with the harvesting of different vegetables. Aside from the Potatoes, we harvested cabbages and onions and we helped in sorting the carrots. Seeing how they produce the food ecologically and sustainably was a marvel and it taught us so much.
There was also a little time to help with building some new buildings. We also had some really fun experiences learning how to milk the cows.
The amazing Eco-food
At each meal, we had the pleasure of eating all the delicious Eco-food they have to offer at the farm. We ate amazing homemade yogurt and chocolate just to mention some of the tasty food we sampled.
It was such a delight to spend time with all the people on the farm. From temporary workers to the full-time employees, everyone had such a unity, it really felt like a big family.
We were also so happy to gain the additional knowledge we acquired on how to sustainably grow Eco-food. We could not recommend this place enough and we hope to see that more and more people learn to produce food in the sustainable way Stange farm does it. | agronomy |
http://www.lilywanderlust.com/2009/12/corn-glorious-corn.html | 2017-04-29T13:15:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123491.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00351-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95343 | 348 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__299647560 | en | Before I moved across an ocean to an ice cold winter in Amsterdam,
I enjoyed the leisure of daily sunshine (and extreme humidity) in Florida.
Knowing the sunshine would be something I'd miss dearly, and everything that comes with it (sundresses!!!), no matter how sticky and gross it can be!
Just before I moved, a few of us visited Long & Scotts Farm in Zellwood, Florida for their annual GIANT corn maze. It was quite a fun, silly experience!
And now that I'm stuck in the cold and having visions of sundresses, beach weather and summer time, I remembered that with the chaos of moving I completely forgot to post about the corn adventure. So, here you go a few months late but sunny and fun none the less.
Waiting in line for the corn maze to start
Corn labyrinth? Yes, please!
They create a different theme each year,
it's a pretty serious corn maze experience!
Embarking on the corn adventure
It was the most perfect, sunny autumn day
After wandering the maze, Jolie and I enjoying a piece of delicious, fresh corn, yumm.
Let me tell you, after walking though a corn field for so long,
all you want to do is tear into a pice of hot, buttery corn.
We did just that and got the last two pieces!
(I was actually a bit worried that someone would jump us due to the last minute corn shortage.)
This was such a fun day and a great memory to have with two of my best friends
before embarking on a new adventure here in Amsterdam!
Dutch of the Day: Corn = Mais | agronomy |
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Tuesday June 19, 2018
Summer Day Camp has started and will run for three different weeks this summer. Your child can still enroll for the week of June 25th or July 9th. Give us a call at 909-790-TIME if you have questions.
The strawberries are still going strong and u-pick will be open all week. Check in at the Cider Barn Store to purchase your picking basket. Heads up: we believe Olallieberries will be ready by the end of the week.
The Hawk’s Head Tavern is open from 10 AM to 4 PM today, and all week. We’re serving chicken pot pies, Scottish beef pies and farm-to-table strawberry treats.
|New! Fresh Farm-Picked Strawberry Pie!
This week’s farm to table treat. Mint and farm-grown strawberry salad, with candied almonds, feta, and balsamic glaze.
The farm looking South East across the new “Gold Rush” apple orchard..
We’re working on a farm trail and here’s one of the more spectacular views, looking South from the northern apple terraces..
The Colonial Chesterfield Pergola looking out on the cider barn store (left) and the restrooms (right). Photo take June 10, 2018
The “Gold Rush” Orchard being planted with about 300 new heirloom apple trees. Photo taken June 8, 2018 | agronomy |
https://www.studylocus.com/paid-essays/f84f9867-04a1-4474-8a31-ee690fb0d167 | 2022-09-27T06:54:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334992.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927064738-20220927094738-00307.warc.gz | 0.923306 | 354 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__126359398 | en | Question. Can Genetics and Breeding improve Cattle Production in smallholder farming systems in South Africa?
Cattle farming in South Africa is the largest agricultural activity, contributing to a large percentage of income and food to the country. It provides milk, meat, leather, cow dungs, and labor source during tilling, irrigation, and carting of land. Through these productions, it indicates the economic status of the country.
In South Africa, small-scale farmers typically use natural ways of production. If they adopt the genetic and breeding method of farming, their cattle production is improving in the following ways:
Generation of the desired traits.
Animals with different traits are measured, and the best animals are used as parent animals. And this provides farmers with the next generation of cattle, which increases production.
Increases cattle productions
Breeding increases farmer's production in terms of milk, meat, leather, and quality horns.
Improving adaptability of animals
Genetics and breeding improve animal's adaptability to the change in the environment without affecting production. This also lowers the mortality rate of the cattle.
Increases resistance to diseases
With improve genes, they have high immune systems and quickly adapt to the harsh environment. Therefore, it increases resistance to diseases, and this lower farmers' medical cost, which increases the life span of cattle, which increases production.
Improves cattle growth
The improved genetic traits enable faster growth of cattle calves, weight, and healthy development; this allows farmers to gain profits within a short time and allows greater feed efficiency.
Increases birth rate.
Genetics and breeding make cattle give birth more often compared to natural ways of production. It enables farmers to have more cattle on his farm. | agronomy |
https://bouncecomics.com/tag/topsoil-supplier/ | 2022-08-13T18:36:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00777.warc.gz | 0.952965 | 715 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__142398438 | en | There are a number of components that need to return collectively to produce a terrific garden. For example, you need to start with the best plants, you have to feed those plants properly, and also you obviously must water them at an appropriate rate. In addition to those fundamentals, you’ll also wish to make certain the plants have the right soil — and enough soil — to achieve their potential. Undecided how much topsoil to add to your backyard to make a comfortable house for various plants? The content material below should get you started.
Before we tackle the question of how much top soil you want in your backyard, let’s first talk quickly about why that you must add top soil in the first place. After all, your backyard is already made up of dirt, proper? Why not just dig some holes and get started? The importance of topsoil comes down to the nutrients contained within the dirt. When you have been to just plant your backyard in the dust that’s at present covering that patch of ground, chances are you’ll or might not find that your plants get sufficient nutrition to thrive. Basically, you’ll be rolling the cube on the quality of that filth, which is why it makes sense to purchase a quality topsoil to add to the garden. This way, you’ll make sure you deliver the vitamins required to give your plants the most effective likelihood at success.
A Primary Guideline
We can sum up in a single word how a lot topsoil try to be adding to your garden — ‘a lot’. Basically, you possibly can’t have an excessive amount of, however you’ll be able to definitely have too little. As a common rule of thumb, you may aim for a depth of eight’’ of fresh topsoil once you start this project. There’s nothing magical about the eight’’ number, but it’s a good starting level and will provide you with a number to do some calculations with primarily based on the scale of your garden. In the event you go a little beyond eight’’, that’s just fine. Nonetheless, you don’t wish to cut yourself in need of this depth by a lot, as you might not be providing your plants what they must be healthy.
Not the Finish of the Story
Yes, new topsoil is nice for providing plants with the nutrients they should grow. However, you’ll be able to’t just assume that since you added fresh topsoil, your job is completed for the foreseeable future. Your plants are quickly going to start working via the vitamins in that topsoil, so fertilizing in an ongoing manner is a good idea. And, today, there are many natural fertilization options on the market, so that you don’t have to apply chemical substances to your garden to be able to encourage your plants to grow. Additionally, it’s an excellent habit to add no less than a little recent topsoil yearly, to keep your garden fertile. As you acquire expertise as a gardener, you’ll start to notice signs that your plants want additional vitamins, and you’ll freshen your topsoil or buy fertilizer as needed.
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https://ur-contact.com/2021/09/11/all-the-mysteries-about-nigerian-farming-naija-are-up-against/ | 2022-01-20T04:06:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301720.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120035934-20220120065934-00477.warc.gz | 0.928499 | 969 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__123335763 | en | Caused by a awesome situation and additionally modern world the setting of, Nigeria is normally one in every of a large number of lucki america’s in the case of farming. Right away, all the Nigerians experience numerous farm strategies to make sure you experience in addition to to make sure you upload. Just by comfortably curbing all the attainable farm strategies, Nigeria is as well willing to better the country’s finance state just by exporting.
Farm benefits for Nigerian finance production
When people are deliberating all the resort mangrove, n . savannas, natrual enviroment savannas or possibly damp woods – Nigeria comes with the whole thing. Suitable for your outfit oil enterprise, all the farming enterprise is as well a very important power source just for finance production and additionally strengthen about GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT tier. Needing this approach in view, throughout the last 2 decades beyond 40% for the GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT tier was first produced all the farm sphere.
For duration, farming is normally once you for Nigeria considering that it assures all the cost about a career and additionally translates into cutting edge and additionally good professions. Already, beyond 60% about labor force is targeted on the farm sphere. In addition, gardening is mostly a particularly artistic adventure for Nigeria in support of 33% about place’s secure is normally using farming. Right away, all the farm sphere are usually reasons derricks about adventure at some point.
Besides, government entities equally likes all the production about cooperative organisations by means of the aim of helping all the warehousing farming as for Nigeria caused by a several situation, you’ll be able all the formulation about a large amount of farm supplements on the semi-tropical situation.
Farm sectors are essential for Nigeria
Prior to when the 1950’s, farming was first the root adventure for Nigeria. Still, at the time along with the production for the lube exporting enterprise the software have become appropriate all the significance about cuisine. To further increase all the farm successes, other sorts of farm spaces naija gists happen to be constructed throughout the last times.
Right away, the root farm sectors are essential for Nigeria are often the sticking with:
– Cuisine Fruit
All the plant formulation was first the root farm adventure for Nigeria for evere ? and additionally already covers pinto beans, almond, the company lube, yams, powdered cocoa, groundnuts, melons and the majority other sorts of cuisine fruit who are recommended because the hawaii’s warm and additionally semi-tropical situation from this location.
– Revenue Fruit
In that farm sphere they might be add some formulation about 100 % organic cotton, silicone, kolanut, nicotine gum Persia, beniseed, the company kernels and the majority other sorts of these sort of fruit which might cultivate in that hawaii’s warm situation.
If you are woods, here hit t shirts include Nigeria: abora, teak, ebony, ekki, schokohäutige afara, camwood, mahogany, Nigerian pine. This approach farm sphere is really an valuable and additionally artistic a for Nigeria that’s why assures finance production in the community.
Starting with all the 70’s, earnings about 11 million dollars cattle remained with us and additionally after that relating to the Nigerian location comes with fruitfully increased the country’s animals formulation apart any time in which 90% was first in all the n . state governments for the location. In these days, a large amount of distant loved ones enhance ones own fowl at the same time birds legally represent all the predominant fowl in the community. Beyond birds, for Nigeria there is other sorts of livestock reared that include cattle, duck, pigs, chicken, sheep, goat, pigeon, donkey and additionally guinea fowls.
This approach farm sphere is really an valuable a just for Nigeria and additionally moment all the 70’s when local formulation about fisheries is actually arriving at how much 600. 000 firms about the on a yearly basis justification. Already, all the fisheries constructed throughout the region about Nigeria feature crabs, shrimps, spade, shark, grunters, snake striped bass, carefully thread udemærket, dazzling bouquet and others.
In summary, all the Nigerian farming has various potentials to arive at finance production relating to time and additionally offers reasons functions in the case of upload, and the oil enterprise. Then again, Nigeria is normally working with the acceptable systems if you are farm power source this kind of gives you this approach location a fabulous demanding bonus compared with other sorts of awakening industry. | agronomy |
https://allofsmallbusiness.com/tag/gardening/ | 2023-03-22T00:01:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943747.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321225117-20230322015117-00532.warc.gz | 0.969577 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__201649549 | en | Market gardening, a small business for the green minded!
Especially in the last few years there has been great interest in market gardening, a particular type of small farming in which people, usually looking for an alternative lifestyle, produce high value crops from a small area of land. The demand for naturally grown food is soaring. Some sources say by as much as 20% per year. If you are looking at the possibility of opening a small business of your own and you happenRead More | agronomy |
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“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health. And are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” – Wendell Berry
Growing a garden and taking control of your own personal agriculture might be the most important thing you can do for yourself and for the planet.
The way we produce food in the modern world is broken and people are waking up to the shortfalls of our food system and the reality that “food” is being manufactured for profit, not nourishment. Britain, for example, imports — and exports — 15,000 tons of waffles a year, and similarly exchanges 20 tons of bottled water with Australia.
According to USDA data, crops such as broccoli and wheat are showing a 50% decline in key nutritional components in the last 50 years. Food system emissions account for up to 29% of the total greenhouse gas emissions and the average meal travels an estimated 1500 miles to our plates. In fact, the large majority of the supermarket contains food-like substances that should not qualify as food in the first place!
People are becoming increasingly aware that using toxic chemicals to grow food makes no sense because they are learning to ask the right questions about the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) and other risky conventional methods of agriculture.
The reality is that eating is an agricultural act; we vote for what we want offered in our food system with every bite that we take. The single most potent tool towards making sense of our food system is for every single eater out there to start a food garden.
It doesn’t matter if it is in the front yard, in your closet or a container on the balcony, growing our own food needs to become the rallying cry of the day. Let’s call it The Food Movement, with the focus to grow healthy people, plants and planet.
Even if it is a single tomato plant on the deck, the principle of growing something that you eat is therapeutic and rewarding. Growing a garden is easy to do, but most don’t get started for fear of “screwing it up.” Am I starting the seeds correctly? How do I know when and what to grow? Should I use conventional or organic fertilizer?
The questions become overwhelming and can never end. The fun irony of this sentiment and the secret to learning to grow an amazing garden is in perspective you hold in your approach and the making of mistakes. Often times it is the “mistakes” that result in the greatest yields!
Remember that plants want to grow. Our job is to nurture the natural systems at hand to get the most out of the garden. A perfect example of this is to consider the living microorganisms that live in your soil that make up what is called the “soil food web”.
Just like in the ocean, the soil is comprised of varying trophic levels of life. The smallest organisms are called bacteria and they perform the role of the plankton of the soil. They are prey for the higher organisms called fungi, protozoa and nematodes. The importance of this soil food web cannot be overstated, imagine you took the plankton out of the ocean?
It is the responsibility of these microbes to recycle organic matter into perfect plant food. Consider that in the forest, the trees don’t eat the leaves that fall, but what the microbes make of them. This is what we call “composting”. It should be happening everywhere, not just in the compost bin.
In keeping with the forest analogy, consider that the forest grows trees without any fertilizer. The reason is that the soil is at least 100 years biologically mature and the soil has never been killed through development or use of toxic artificial biocides and fertilizer.
So our goal should be to grow our soil, not our plants. Seek out a good source of organic compost or use the forest floor to inoculate your own compost. Compost tea is also a potent and effective way to make sure you are working with a broad diversity of beneficial microbes.
In the end, you can’t learn to be a farmer by reading a book. The only true metric for success is the quality and yield of your plants. Seek physical, mineral, biological and energetic balance in the garden and grow the best garden of your life! | agronomy |
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Water is essential to life as we know it. Not only do we need it to survive, we also use water for so many other things such as agriculture, food preparation, and showering. For many of us, we take the water that comes from our taps for granted, but where exactly is that water coming from? What sort of infrastructure is required to deliver endless gallons of water to millions of people? | agronomy |
http://www.mobileweather.com/mwtcast/ag/weatherview/?page_id=2 | 2018-06-20T03:42:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863411.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620031000-20180620051000-00360.warc.gz | 0.928985 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__215063737 | en | Weather affects us all, especially farmers. At Mobile Weather Team we understand the impacts that weather has on crop supply and prices. We also know how important this information is to you. In light of that, Mobile Weather Team started putting together WeatherView Online on January 1, 2010.
For 5 years now we have been bringing you accurate short-term forecasts and long-range outlooks that have helped you, the farmer, run your business. We have kept you up to date concerning the weather in other key crop areas around the world, and even thrown a little humor your way from time to time.
Starting April 2nd, 2012 we rolled out a brand new way of getting you the weather information you need. Instead of a bi-weekly 10-15 page newsletter, Mobile Weather Team now brings you a live site with daily weather updates. Every morning, Monday through Friday, you can visit the site and you’ll have access to the most accurate weather information possible. This allows you to plan each day accordingly.
We haven’t forgotten the long-range forecasts. Every Friday we take a look ahead and tell you what we believe the mid to long-term outlook is. Once or twice a week we will also be focusing on the international picture so you can stay informed about the way the market is moving.
Even though we are giving you more, our price hasn’t changed! You can get all this great information, every Monday through Friday, for only $300/year!
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Hello to our Flower Friends! Spring is here on the Farm Girl's Flower Patch. Busy preparing beds and planting fresh flowers for the upcoming season! Looking forward to some new varieties of flowers as well as the lovely favorites. Stay tuned to our weekly updates to what we'll have fresh and where we'll be to sell our fresh blooms! | agronomy |
https://aperture64.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/grass/ | 2022-08-10T17:02:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00731.warc.gz | 0.9726 | 103 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__198622498 | en | I was taking photos and need a break. I sat down on the grass and just for kicks I looked through the view finder and with a small aperture took this picture.
The picture really does demonstrate a shallow depth of field. Grass doesn’t always grow straight it can grow weaving in and out of each other. Because of the low aperture causing a shallow depth of field. The blades of grass come in and out of focus sometimes in the center of the blade in focus with the tip falling out. | agronomy |
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Many years ago, when Dr QIB Chowdhury lived in Bangabhaban and Tarique Rahman was not widely reviled, Shafiq Rehman hosted a TV programme (I forget in which channel) where politicians from across the aisle participated. One item involved asking BNP leaders who they thought was a successful minister in the previous Awami League government. Matia Chowdhury — the agriculture minister in that government — was chosen pretty unanimously. Ms Chowhdury is agriculture minister in the current government too. Interestingly, according to the latest Prothom Alo – ORG Quest poll, she is not viewed as a success any more. Over two-fifths surveyed believe under her watch, farmers are not doing well. Over half consider her to be a failure as a minister.
I was intrigued by the poll results. Is there any way to check her performance in the data? Well, as with garments sector, one good way to check how a sector is doing is to look at its productivity. When productivity rises, profits and wages can both rise. The standard measure of productivity in agriculture sector is farm yield (output per unit of land). The thin green and gold lines in this chart shows annual growth in yield (kg per hectare) in rice and all crops respectively. As you can see, these annual growth series are very volatile. This is because there is a lot of variation in agricultural output on an annual basis. To make any inference, one needs to smooth the data. There are more fancy techniques, but for a blog post annual average over the previous five years should suffice — these are the thicker lines (green for rice, gold for all crops).
Suppose Matia Chowdhury took some concrete steps to give lasting benefit the farm sector in, say, 1996-97. How would that show up in the data? If as a result of her actions, productivity growth accelerated for a while, then we would expect to see the thick lines step up towards the end of the 1990s, and stay elevated into the 2000s. And in fact, that’s exactly what we see. Farm yields grew pretty steadily in the 1970s and 1980s. But by the mid-1990s, farm yields basically stopped growing. And then yield growth rebounded strongly in the late 1990s before moderating to historical pace in more recent years.
The data is consistent with the following story:
- whatever ‘green revolution’ policies were taken by the Mujib, Zia and Ershad governments, by the time Matia Chowdhury became the minister, they had run their course;
- whatever policies she enacted revived farm yield;
- her successors maintained these policies, but absent new steps, yield growth has eased.
Of course, there is a natural limit to farm productivity. Bangladesh is a very densely populated country. Our farms are small. With so many rivers and canals, perhaps the delta is not the most conducive place for large scale mechanised farming.
Are we hitting the limit?
One way to answer that would be to check our farm productivity compares internationally. Our rice-producing, densely populated neighbours in South East Asia are natural comparators. And as this chart of crop yield shows, our farmers are more productive than Thai and Filipino ones, but not as much as the Vietnamese and Indonesian ones.
This wasn’t always the case. In the 1960s, Bangladeshi farms were similarly productive as their Indonesian peers. But Indonesians lept ahead in the 1970s and 1980s, and have maintained their lead since. Vietnamese farms have steadily become more productive since the 1980s, and became more productive than Indonesians by the end of the 1990s.
Can Bangladeshi farms match Vietnamese or Indonesian levels of productivity?
I have no idea. I am not familiar with the research in this area. But digging a bit deeper, I found something interesting.
This chart shows fertiliser consumption per hectare of arable land during the 2000s. Vietnamese farmers use significantly more fertiliser than others in the region. Now, I know nothing about farming, so happy to be educated. But my guess would be that fertiliser use, at least in some context, is positively correlated with farm yield.
Notice the rise in fertiliser use in Bangladesh at the last data point? That figure is for 2009, after Ms Chowdhury’s return to the job. If fertiliser use is a good predictor of higher productivity, and if the 2009 was beginning of a new trend and not a once off, then farmers may well have better times ahead.
Data source: World Bank World Development Indicator for crop yield and fertiliser, CEIC Asia for rice yield. | agronomy |
http://knolltopfarmwife.blogspot.com/2015/10/ | 2019-02-23T17:17:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249508792.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223162938-20190223184938-00014.warc.gz | 0.956285 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__30118989 | en | It’s an October morning and harvest continues to roll on throughout the country. I’ve seen reports of happy farmers finishing beans and moving on to corn. I’ve seen reports of neighboring farmers harvesting 450 acres of corn for their cancer-stricken neighboring farmer and last night lying in bed, I received a text from my son who was still in the field harvesting beans well after dark.
It’s that time of year when passion and tenacity are at their highest and work ethics are driving men and women to stay in the field until the job is done. Combines hardly get a chance to cool down, grain trucks comb the roads and full fields begin to take on their flat, brown wardrobe of winter.
It’s time to fill up the bins, to convert feed to food and feed the world. Farmers will trade in their sit down dinners at noon with family for solo sandwiches on the tailgate. They will swap time spent in the bleachers for time in the tractor cab. They will stay up late, rise up early, tread through the day surviving the lulls on cokes and coffee. Repairs will plague them, weather will haunt them and grain prices will lure them.
When the job is done, satisfaction will reign and families will reunite around the table with talk about plans for next spring. Equipment will be inspected, purchases will be pondered and spousal dust-ups are inevitable.
It’s harvest season. Be safe. Hug one another. Bless each other with a kind word. Never leave without an “I love You” lingering in the air, because you just never know….. | agronomy |
http://westkentpartnership.org.uk/2017/03/05/business-as-usual-for-west-kent-leader/ | 2018-06-23T17:47:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865145.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623171526-20180623191526-00374.warc.gz | 0.938964 | 167 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__164273227 | en | Funding Available to Help Rural Businesses to Grow
Businesses and communities in the rural areas of West Kent will continue to have the opportunity to benefit froM LEADER grant funding totalling nearly £1.5 million until 31 March 2019. This news follows a period of uncertainty following the EU referendum last year.
Grants provided to rural small businesses, farmers, foresters and communities are towards capital projects that create jobs and grow the rural economy. So far, 12 projects in West Kent have been supported and funding of £290,000 awarded, to assist with the creation of 18 jobs. Projects funded so far have included a village community shop, irrigation equipment for soft fruit and asparagus, timber harvesting equipment, a gin distillery, farm diversification projects and a winery.
More information at West Kent Leader | agronomy |
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Best vintage tractor.
Best overall display.
2018 Vintage Display.
This year members from the Bellarine Vintage Machinery Group will be displaying “Market Garden Equipment” and “Cutting Wood”.
The Bellarine Peninsula has from the first European settlement, had an agricultural industry base. Due to its close proximity to the Melbourne market, many market gardeners set up on the Peninsula suppling fresh vegetables. The vegetables would be picked and sent by “steamer” across the bay to go on sale at the Melbourne markets. Before the days of rail or fast road connection the “steamer” crossing the bay was the perfect solution. The vegetable crops grown in the area varied between corn, carrots, peas, potatoes and onions. The “Belllarine Onion Drill” was invented it 1877 by James Grieve of Drysdale.
Another rural activity conducted on every farm was the cutting of wood. Firstly, for clearing the land for crops to be planted, to cutting timber for the construction of building, creating posts for fencing, and fire wood. Farmers and their workers first started cutting timber by hand with axes and saws, then with the development of steam power and the combustion engine, a larger scale of timber cutting could be done with lower amounts of labour required. | agronomy |
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http://afarmofyourhome.com/7-excellent-reasons-to-cultivate-your-urban-farm/ | 2018-10-17T03:24:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510969.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017023458-20181017044958-00080.warc.gz | 0.95641 | 1,524 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__41340769 | en | “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
For as long as I can remember, I desperately wanted to live on a farm. Raise my family close to nature and grow my own food, make awesome compost, raise some chickens, maybe get a beehive.
Instead, I found myself in suburbia with a young family.
So I decided that if I couldn’t move to “The Farm” I would bring the farm to me.
After all, I did have a big suburban yard. And I desperately wanted a hobby that would engage my brain in some subject other than childcare or housework. Perhaps contradictorily, I also wanted a hobby that I could do without excluding my kids. A vegetable patch was the perfect fit.
Years later, that vegetable patch has engulfed almost all of my block. I am raising my family close to nature, we grow our own food, make awesome compost, raise chickens and have bees.
My little urban farm has been a fantastic endeavour. And while I still want to have a rural property, thank god we didn’t do it years ago. Because an agricultural learning curve contained in a backyard is much less risky and costly than a multi-acre-meltdown.
I have also come to understand that urban farming has real advantages all of it’s own.
You Supplement your Food Bill.
While my urban farm doesn’t feed us entirely, our produce certainly supplements our purchased food.
But perhaps not in the way you might think. I stopped growing “traditional” crops a while ago. In our first year, I planted a big crop of brown onions. Six months later we had a modest harvest, but it was dispiriting to see the same onions for sale at the farmers market for less than a dollar a kilo.
Urban farming is well suited to growing those niche, heirloom edibles that you just don’t get to sample in the supermarkets. Once you get hooked on the varied offerings of heirloom varieties, it is damn near impossible to be impressed by a supermarket offering of any other fruit or vegetable. I now plant delicious exotic edibles, suited to my climate, that I know I will have trouble finding elsewhere. I probably wouldn’t pay $3.00 each for an American grown passionfruit, as much as I love them. But luckily for me, our vine planted and nourished by our chicken coop rains a surplus of fat, juicy fruit.
And it makes economic sense, if you only have a relatively small space, plant it with the most high-value (taste and cost-wise) plants.
You Enjoy Ripe, Delicious, Nutritious Produce.
Fruit and vegetables ripened where they are grown are simply more delicious. Home picked sweet corn can be on your table in minutes. As soon as corn is picked the sugars in the kernals start converting into starch, which affects the flavour. But it’s not just the flavour that can be affected when your food is not backyard fresh. Fruit and vegetables that have to travel to meet you can also deteriorate nutritionally en route.
Processed and unseasonal food that has travelled a long way to reach your plate has a big impact on our collective carbon footprint, known as food miles. Eating fresh food, where it is grown and ripened is probably one of the most pleasurable ways for you to tally your environmental brownie-points.
You Know The Growing History of Your Food.
I know the providence of my edibles. Earlier this year, there was a Hepatitis A scare with imported frozen berries. An investigation revealed the farming practices of the suppliers were most likely at fault of the contamination. When I grow my own berries, the only thing I have to worry about is the birds getting them first. I know they haven’t been treated with pesticides, farmed in a monoculture or in the case of the affected berries, watered with raw sewerage. And that reassurance extends to my chickens and bees. My chickens are fed well, with plenty of room for them to move. My bees also forage in a diverse garden, without the need to feed them sugar. Remember, you eat what your food eats! The only way you can eat with 100% confidence is to raise your own food.
You Give Your Garbage a Higher Calling.
Instead of otherwise tossing all perishable waste into the bin, my rubbish now has purpose! Between the chickens, the mealworms, the earthworms and the compost bins, every carbon-based bit of rubbish gets transmuted into something else much more valuable. Like eggs and chicken meat. Compost. Worm castings. High protein mealworms. Delicious fruits and vegetables. Flowers that feed bees nectar to make honey. In an urban farm, the challenge can be finding enough waste to keep your hungry garden satisfied.
You Have Fewer Predators In Urban Areas.
While some city areas are afflicted with assorted wild and feral predators, there are far fewer predators and pests in the city. While my country cousins despair at kangaroo-levelled vegetable patches and sneaky fox coop slaughters, its not an issue for me. I have had one injured crow eat all my ground level tomatoes which was pretty annoying until she moved on. I had one cat that used my front raised bed as a litterbox, but shoo-ing it away was enough of a deterrent, no drastic action required.
But even the neighbourhood cats aren’t interested in my chickens. We don’t have foxes, or possums, or snakes in my urban area. It’s a big positive.
You Develop a Wider Awareness of Food, Environment, Climate and Sustainability.
If you have any doubt about the vulnerability of farming, or of our food system as a whole, just grow a tomato plant. You’ll grow to appreciate that something as obsequious as a tomato takes care to prune, water, fertilise and to be kept pest free. Assuming all goes well with the weather, with no hot spells, hail, wind or deluge dashing your plant’s survival, in about 12 weeks, you should have your first ripe tomato. (Hopefully, you’ll have local pollinators up to the job!) You’ll appreciate it much more than any other tomato that you purchase from the shop. You’ll likely regard every tomato you meet from that moment on with a new found respect. And once you’ve tasted a tomato ripe from the plant, you’ll likely never want to eat a supermarket tomato ever again.
Same goes for anything else you cultivate and nurture. You appreciate it and want to see it thrive. You’ll happily prioritise food quality over quantity!
You Will Be Happier for Cultivating Your Urban Farm.
Lastly, but of equal importance, is the fact that an urban farm will make you happier. Numerous studies have shown time spent tending a garden also cultivates the person in an entirely positive way. Less anxiety, better nutrition and connecting with nature are just some of the ways a garden will help grow you.
What about you? Do you agree? Do you have an 8th reason why you should grow where you are planted? | agronomy |
https://www.memorialhermann.org/health-wellness/nutrition/eat-seasonally | 2024-02-24T06:09:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00455.warc.gz | 0.949285 | 428 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__110611460 | en | “Eating seasonally is a big, fun adventure,” says Pat Greer, owner of Pat Greer’s Kitchen and a vendor at Urban Harvest farmers market. Here are Greer’s top reasons why.
Our bodies are nourished with what nature provides.
- Locally-grown, seasonal food is freshly picked. “The flavor is better,” Greer says. “Nutritional life declines when produce has been sitting a long time.”
- Our bodies are nourished with what nature provides. As temperatures climb, fluid-filled foods such as cucumbers, strawberries, oranges and watermelon ripen, she says. In the fall and winter when we need sustained fuel and warmth, root vegetables, dark greens and other crops flourish. “Our body is more attached to earth cycles and seasons than we give it credit.”
- Focusing on the time of year enables you to eat five to 13 servings of fruits and vegetables, as endorsed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines and the American Heart Association.
- “Our garden easily could be the major portion of our diet,” Greer says. “It can guide us to eat fewer overly-processed foods.”
- Natural foods are better for us, helping our heart, endocrine system, skin and other organs. Fruits and vegetables often are high in fiber, which is filling, improves our digestion, and makes us chew more and often eat less.
- Prioritizing health benefits motivates you to eat more healthy food and expand your culinary horizons. “Once you realize what mustard or collard greens can do for your body, you also may realize you can have them for breakfast or any meal,” Greer says.
- A greater repertoire of fresh foods fights culinary boredom.
- You feed not only yourself, but also the local economy, especially farmers and produce purveyors. “You also support our eco-systems, bees and other pollinators.” | agronomy |
https://www.splendidlandscape.ca/best-bark-mulch-for-langley-gardens/ | 2024-02-26T13:57:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00500.warc.gz | 0.899136 | 1,348 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__74462754 | en | In the lush landscapes of Langley, finding the perfect bark mulch is essential for nurturing a vibrant and thriving garden. Discovering the ideal blend that not only enhances soil health but also adds aesthetic charm becomes a delightful journey for garden enthusiasts seeking the epitome of horticultural excellence.
Why Bark Mulch Can Improve Your Langley Garden
In Langley gardens, utilizing mulch offers a multitude of benefits.
It acts as a natural insulator, regulating soil temperature and protecting plants from the region’s variable climate.
Suppresses weed growth, conserves soil moisture, and enriches the soil with essential nutrients as it breaks down, fostering a healthier and more resilient garden ecosystem.
Choosing the Best Mulch for Installation
Here are some factors to consider when choosing the correct type for you:
1. Particle Size:
– Opt for finer textures for enhanced weed suppression and moisture retention.
– Coarser varieties provide better aeration for the soil.
– Choose organic mulches that decompose over time, enriching the soil with essential nutrients.
– Consider the color of the mulch; lighter shades can reflect sunlight, helping to maintain cooler soil temperatures.
– Ensure that it is sourced responsibly to align with eco-friendly gardening practices.
Bark Mulch Installation and Delivery Langley
With a proven track record of excellence, Splendid Landscaping stands as a trusted choice for delivering and installing bark mulch in your garden with unwavering professionalism. Their team’s intelligent approach to landscaping ensures meticulous attention to detail, expert selection of the most suitable mix, and seamless installation, guaranteeing a garden transformation that exceeds expectations. Along with many other services in Langley, you can change the look and function of your garden today! Get your free Langley mulch installation and delivery quote today.
Solid Type and Acidity Levels
Consider your garden’s soil type and pH levels when choosing, selecting a variety that complements the existing soil composition. Choose mulches that align with the specific pH requirements of your plants, ensuring a conducive environment for healthy growth in diverse soil conditions.
Elevate your garden aesthetics with the right bark mulch, choosing textures and colors that harmonize with your overall landscape design. Whether aiming for a natural, rustic feel or a more polished look, selecting the appropriate mulch enhances visual appeal while providing practical benefits for soil health and plant growth.
Top Bark Mulch Options for Delivery
Cedar mulch not only enhances garden aesthetics with its natural, aromatic appeal but also acts as a natural insect repellent, inhibiting pests, and contributes to soil health by promoting moisture retention and gradual nutrient release.
2. Potential drawbacks
However, it’s important to note that cedar mulch can be relatively more expensive than some alternatives, and its aromatic compounds may fade over time, necessitating more frequent replacement for those seeking a long-lasting fragrance in their garden. Additionally, the natural decomposition of cedar mulch can temporarily deplete soil nitrogen levels, requiring careful monitoring and occasional supplementation for optimal plant nutrition.
Hemlock offers a visually appealing option for gardens, providing a rich, dark color that complements various plantings, and its fine texture aids in weed suppression while contributing to soil moisture retention and nutrient enrichment as it breaks down over time.
3. Potential drawbacks
However, it’s important to be aware that hemlock may have a higher acidity level, which could impact the pH of the soil over time, requiring monitoring and potential adjustments for certain plants, and its fine texture may break down more quickly than coarser mulches, necessitating more frequent replenishment in garden maintenance.
Pine presents a cost-effective and visually pleasing option for gardens, boasting a natural, earthy appearance and providing anti-weed effects, while its decomposition contributes to soil structure improvement and nutrient enrichment.
3. Potential drawbacks
Yet, it’s worth noting that pine bark mulch may initially require nitrogen during decomposition, potentially affecting soil nitrogen levels and necessitating supplemental fertilization, and its lighter color may not suit all aesthetic preferences, especially for those seeking a darker, richer look in their garden landscaping.
Composted bark mulch not only enhances soil fertility and structure through nutrient-rich organic matter, moisture retention, and temperature regulation in gardens, offering a holistic approach to sustainable and thriving landscapes. Its dual functionality as a soil amendment and aesthetic enhancer makes it a valuable choice for gardeners looking to optimize both the health and appearance of their planting beds.
2. Potential drawbacks
However, it’s important to be mindful of potential drawbacks associated with composted, including the initial cost, which might be higher than untreated alternatives, and the necessity for periodic replenishment as the organic matter decomposes over time. Additionally, while composted mulch enhances soil fertility, careful monitoring is advised to prevent over-fertilization and potential nutrient imbalances in certain plant varieties.
Tips for Using Bulk Mulch in Langley Gardens
Proper application on the soil
When applying bark mulch to your garden, ensure a proper layer thickness of 2 to 4 inches, evenly spread around plants while keeping a slight distance from stems to prevent moisture-related issues. Additionally, replenish the mulch annually to maintain its effectiveness, and avoid piling it too close to tree trunks or plant bases to prevent potential rot or pest problems.
Maintenance and replenishment
Regular maintenance involves monitoring its thickness and replenishing it annually to maintain its effectiveness in controlling weeds, moisture retention, and soil insulation. Additionally, be attentive to signs of decomposition, and supplement with fresh mulch as needed to sustain its benefits for optimal garden health.
Potential issues to watch out for
There can be potential issues such as the development of mold or fungi in damp conditions, and be mindful of nitrogen depletion during the decomposition process, necessitating periodic fertilization. Additionally, avoid over-mulching, as excessive layers can lead to root suffocation and moisture-related problems, and regularly inspect for pests that may be attracted to the mulch layer.
Splendid Landscaping’s Recommendation
For Langley gardens, the ultimate recommendation is composted bark mulch, a versatile solution that not only enriches the soil with essential nutrients but also serves as an effective weed suppressor, moisture retainer, and temperature regulator. Its dual functionality as a soil amendment and aesthetic enhancer makes composted bark mulch the optimal choice for promoting overall garden health and creating visually appealing landscapes in the region. | agronomy |
https://www.thronefarm.co.uk/awards/ | 2024-02-28T18:42:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474744.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228175828-20240228205828-00457.warc.gz | 0.967035 | 114 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__6505409 | en | PROUD FINALISTS IN THE BBC FOOD & FARMING AWARDS 2021
Recognition From Others…
Bulmers belong to the Heineken group and are the single largest buyer of English apples. We were delighted to have twice been recognised by them as having the best conservation orchard in their biennial Golden apple awards and once runner up for the best overall orchard.
Perhaps we should enter more competitions, but in recent years we were also awarded accreditation in the Red Tractor Assured Fresh Produce and Assured Chicken Production. | agronomy |
https://www.michelle4mn.com/endorsements-1/minnesota-farm-bureau | 2022-05-21T18:31:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662540268.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220521174536-20220521204536-00127.warc.gz | 0.961071 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__4602539 | en | Minnesota Farm Bureau
I come from a family of farmers, so receiving the Minnesota Farm Bureau endorsement again this year is particularly meaningful. Farming is a significant part of Minnesota's heritage and the MFB has been their advocate for over 100 years.
The agriculture industry is critical to our economy and I believe we owe a great deal to all the men and women committed to providing excellent, nutritious food to our families. They work hard every day and take great risks to keep the agricultural community thriving. Farmers are the heart of our state and I will keep them at the forefront of my work at the Capitol. | agronomy |
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