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The beginning of the strawberry season in Huelva is marked by the use of potted plants, a technique some farms are adopting to help their plants mature faster and enter the market before large quantities of fruit arrive. Juanjo Contreras, the production manager at Las Posadillas, one of the leading farms…
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Bullgrass is just known from two occurrences in the state; it’s been seen in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains of Riverside County.
The post Rare Plant of the Month: Bullgrass appeared first on California Native Plant Society.
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In Part 7 of a series of articles featuring insights from growing media suppliers, we look at how flexible suppliers might be in tailoring mixes for specific crops and other things.
The post Growing Media Companies on Flexibility in Tailoring Mixes appeared first on Greenhouse Grower.
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Disease resistance is a tough thing to quantify because it varies so much from region to region. Studies often have different ratings for the same variety, plus there is a lot of anecdotal information out there.
I got tired of getting different answers, so I compiled 11 independent university or Co-op studies, averaged the results, and normalized them. I only looked at varieties that were in 5 or more of the studies so that I could be more confident about these numbers.
A few interesting notes from the data:
I am working on doing this for the other common apple diseases next. The goal is to compile them all together to come up with an “Overall Disease Resistance” score.
Also, if anyone knows of a study I did not reference, please send it my way so I can add it to the database.
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These seeds were collected from the northern most self sustaining population of shagbark hickories here in Ontario Canada
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Getting 200 Shag Bark Hickory seedlings ready for a cold Canadian winter Read More »
Kraft Heinz Polska is expanding its regenerative agriculture program and investing in climate-resilient tomato production, following a season marked by extreme weather across Central Europe. To identify varieties best suited to increasingly unstable conditions, the company trialed 100 tomato cultivars…
IBMA, the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association, has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption of the Biocontrol Non Legislative Initiative Report. The report calls for faster authorization and wider use of biological control. Today’s positive vote in Strasbourg signals strong political…
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Mayor of the City of Newberry, Tim Marden, says money awarded by Governor Ron DeSantis is going to help support the AgTech industry and their AgFoodTech Innovation Park. Marden says the AgTech industry in Newberry started about 10 years ago, and this grant will help tie the past into the future when it…
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