Sentences with phrase «of soil testing»

It has a buried fuel oil tank, but no mention of soil testing or liability was in the disclosure statement.

They are waiting on lab results of the soil tests which are expected soon.

Not exact matches

The case is seen as a new test for Norway's legal system, as the country tries to forget the name of the perpetrator behind the deadliest carnage on its soil since World War II.

Tensions in the Korean peninsula have amped up recently, with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continuing to test nuclear weapons — thought to be capable of reaching U.S. soil — despite United Nations sanctions.

Four of the licenses target Kupferchiefer style sedimentary copper mineralization; soil sampling highlights large anomalies; drill testing required.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

Those who make the effect of prayer on material conditions the test of its efficacy have little rootage for their ideas in New Testament soil.

As I read Isaiah's poem today I realize that the planter of the vineyard forgot to test the soil around the fertile hill.

Unfortunately these units can't ve used to check the pH on hot sauce — unfortunately, way more expensive is required for testing liquids.Testing Soil NutrientsBesides pH meters, soil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidSoil NutrientsBesides pH meters, soil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidsoil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidity.

When I tested the soil in our pepper patch, the results were amazingly accurate — all three units showed a pH of 6.3 to 6.5, i.e. no actions necessary here to adjust the pH. One shop that has the Rapitest unit is here, another one here (please note I am not endorsing any of these shops here — just found them using Google).

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Doing a ph test of your soil is easy and super informative.

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

ACO has clients outside of Australia who are audited and tested (soil, water and product) during annual audits.

«If you look after your soil and rotate vegetables, use green manures, apply compost, test soil regularly and learn to understand what you're looking at so you know what you need to put in, it helps to eliminate a lot of the inputs you need to bring onto the farm,» Tim says.

To ensure consistency of quality in your grapes and wine, the study recommends testing the water before and after harvest and the soil at least every 3 years.

On behalf of the Rainforest Alliance, they are training tea estate workers and smallholder farmers to adopt simple, time - tested methods that safeguard soil health and water quality and protect workers from dangerous chemical exposure.

Our varieties are proven winners because of our fertile, time - tested soil's certified organic mixture.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

As part of the very first audit that takes place on a farm, auditors test the soil for chemical residue.

If a producer can prove organic compliance for a minimum of three years prior to applying for certification, through detailed management plans and soil tests, than they would only be required to be In - Conversion for one year.

Bournemouth are on the slide and their mental toughness will be severely tested here against this well drilled West Brom side who've scored plenty of goals on home soil this season.

But as he prepares to lead Toronto FC into the second leg of its CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal against Liga MX side Tigres UANL, the chance to test himself on Mexican soil motivates him as much as ever.

The agency determined, after extensive testing, that the shot was not contaminating the soil or a nearby channel feeding into two ponds as had been alleged by some residents, Joan Muraro, spokeswoman for the IEPA's Bureau of Water in Springfield, said Friday.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

The nuclear treaty will see the establishment of two shared research facilities, one on French and one on British soil, which will enable components of the two countries» nuclear warheads to be tested under extremes of temperature and pressure.

Drawing on the horticultural research and experience of Cornell University, the Master Gardeners provide services to Ulster County residents that include pH soil testing, insect and plant disease identification and plant selection and care recommendations.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick has called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation (DEC) to conduct soil tests in areas near the Tonawanda Coke plant.

Nicholas said she and three members of the Lockport Common Council - Mark S. Devine, Anita Mullane and Joseph P. Oates - visited some of the property owners Sunday to convince them to give permission for the soil tests.

Ecology and Environment will test soils and beach floor sediment at least 10 - feet deep and determine if any dangerous substances are entering the water from a nearby stormwater drain south of the beach.

He said road project were always costly due to outsourcing of raw materials such as granite and cement including conducting soil test before actual project execution commenced.

Chihiro Inoue, an expert in soil and groundwater remediation at Tohoku University, says that phytoremediation is worth testing, but warns that even if it works, «you're still left with the problem of how to dispose of the [radioactive] plants».

The researchers tested how future precipitation and temperature projections would interact with aspects of the land surface such as vegetation and soil type to affect groundwater recharge during two time intervals: 2021 - 2050 and 2071 - 2100.

Tests in soils affected by oil and gas wastewater spills in West Virginia and North Dakota verify that the new methods can determine the age of spills and identify their origins, based on the variations of radium isotopes and their decay products found in contaminated soils or sediments.

This increases the importance of testing soils for soybean cyst nematodes this spring.

«Without the regulations, projects can't move forward into unconfined trials where crops are released into the environment and their performance is tested under different climatic and soil conditions,» says Simon Gichuki, crop scientist and head of the biotechnology centre at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Nairobi.

That underscores the importance of periodically testing soil for the cysts.

To test the technology, Tom Bruno at NIST created a rat graveyard in his lab, burying some of the little corpses in a few inches of soil and letting others rest in peace above - ground.

They put glass jars on top of the area and tested for carbon dioxide enriched with carbon - 13 — an indicator that the soil contained bugs that metabolize the chemical.

Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.

«These experiments will enable us to further test and refine the underlying processes in the CORPSE model and should lead to improved predictions of the role of plant - soil interactions in global climate change,» Sulman said.

To find out what happened, astrophysicists at NASA's Ames facility devised an artificial environment full of crushed walnut shells to test the engines and found that the pulsing of the rockets on the Martian surface injected more gas into the soil than expected.

They tested the blood of surviving children, took soil samples from family compounds and questioned parents about their dead children's symptoms.

«We will be going up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 1,000 degrees C, in the next soil test happening over the next few days,» says William Boynton, a geochemist at the University of Arizona in Tucson Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and a TEGA co-investigator.

The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.

For instance, on one day that hay was cut — two weeks after a major rainfall that shunted diluted manure into the field — only four of 10 tested soil samples hosted Escherichia coli O157.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

Two projects will be done jointly with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm: Molecular biologist David Baillie of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, was awarded $ 6.73 million to study protein function in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and microbiologist Sherif Abou Elela of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, received $ 3.75 million to test modified nucleic acid technologies for determining gene function.

You could try making a colloidal clay soil solution and test the effect of different forces on it.