Category Archives: Hydroponic Horticulture

These insecticides have outstanding efficacy in crop protection against a number of pest invertebrates , especially piercing–sucking insect herbivores . However, neonicotinoids have limited efficacy against lepidopteran and coleopteran pests . Advantages associated with systemic insecticides over nonsystemic insecticides include: 1) reduced sensitivity to spray coverage and canopy penetration , as the active ingredient translocates …

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The 75th percentile varied widely by commodity: $6,172 for those primarily employed by FLCs, $10,572 for those in grapes and $29,465 for those in mushrooms.The number of individuals and jobs reported by agricultural employers increased in the 1990s, reflecting increased production of labor-intensive fruit and vegetable crops and, the data suggests, more farm workers each worked …

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The cumulative crop evapotranspiration during the 29 day experimental period was equal to 65.3 mm, and daily ETC varied from 1.68 to 3.39 mm. Irrigation was initiated on 16 August 2010 and terminated on 13 September, 2010. Irrigation and rainfall were recorded daily and drainage volume was measured 3 times per week throughout the trial period. …

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Our age adjustment delivers a measure that could be called ‘completed polygyny’ by analogy to ‘completed fertility’. The populations exhibiting surprisingly high levels of polygyny by our definition—e.g. the Ache´, Hadza, Maya, English and Krummho¨rn populations—reflect the prevalence of serial monogamy, not polygyny in the usual sense of multiple concurrent wives. Although most anthropological analyses …

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Dynamic, on-line route planning has recently received attention in the agricultural robotics literature for large-scale harvesting operations because of its economic importance and the availability of auto-guided harvesters and unloading trucks. Reported approaches compute a nominal routing plan for the harvesters assuming some initial yield map, and then they route the support units based on the …

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In addition, hazelnut trees on C. colurna root stocks are frequently more variable in size and yield than self-rooted trees of C. avellana. In a trial using ‘Barcelona’ as a scion cultivar, the graft unions were overgrown and nut yields declined with age, at ~20–25 years. Due to these disadvantages, the Faculty of Agriculture, at …

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Temperature, humidity, ethylene levels, and the storage oxygen-to-carbon dioxide ratio must be controlled to slow down maturation and senescence in order to maintain produce shelf-life and quality. Low temperatures are used to reduce respiration, thereby extending shelf-life, but also have the added benefit of suppressing water loss, shrinkage, and fungal growth, which can occur due to …

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Plants have flowered and seeded here for at least the past thirty years, serving as a ready seed source for downstream dissemination.In 2004, an event occurred which ultimately helps clarify the relationship between regional riverine and roadside-growing plants and the surrounding flora by providing a biogeographical context for the meager ethnographic information regarding tobacco use …

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In California, they are larger than on Cleopatra mandarin, but smaller than those grown on Rough lemon, sour orange, or Troyer citrange. Seedlings of sweet orange are resistant to verrucosis according to Klotz . Again, this is not a problem in California, but in nurseries or grown trees it can be a problem in areas with …

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The cultural practices within an orchard can materially affect root systems. In Ceylon , Gandhi cites a difference in citrus root distribution between irrigated areas and rainfall areas. However, when he grew grapefruit trees on Rough lemon with various degrees of cover crop the citrus roots would not compete with the cover crop. They either turned back …

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