Sentences with phrase «kill weed seeds»

Family Farmers: The farms and community will benefit from free manure processing which will nearly eliminate odor, kill weed seeds, and reduce bad bacteria levels.

To kill weed seeds the compost must be heated to 60º centigrade, either by heating it in an oven or steaming it.

When composting crop residues, manures or other agricultural wastes, it's necessary to achieve temperatures above 131 °F for a defined period of time in order to kill weed seeds and human pathogens.

This heat tends to kill weed seeds and disease organisms, but probably will not work in cooler parts of the pile.

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An Australian farmer invents a device which kills viable weed seeds by 95 per cent, reducing the need for herbicides.

John H. Schulz, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, has calculated that as many as 15 million mourning doves are killed in North America each year from lead poisoning, mostly from eating spent lead shot that looks like the weed seed they depend on for food.

After introducing Round Up (a broad - spectrum herbicide developed by Monsanto and used to kill weeds that threaten commercial crops) in the 1970s, Monsanto quickly introduced Round Up - Ready seeds; crops that are resistant to the main ingredient in Round Up that kills off pests.

Corn gluten applied early in spring is another chemical - free alternative to pre-emergent herbicides that kill germinating weed seeds.