Get the latest information and advice on controlling insect pests
in vegetable crops, and controlling insect contaminants in leafy vegetables.
When your
summer vegetable crops come in and you just can't get enough of those luscious tomatoes, consider tomato soup.
Specifically, she is working on finding the potential alternative cheap sources of sanitizers for prevention of microbial growth tomato, which is the first most
grown vegetable crop in Malawi.
Drip irrigation
for vegetable crops, in which small amounts of water are emitted right at a plant's roots, is estimated to be as much as 95 percent efficient.
Whether you've got houseplants, a flower garden or your very
own vegetable crop growing in the back yard, you can enlist your elementary - aged child in taking care of them.
Plectosphaerella cucumerina is a model of study, but is also an important pathogen of
vegetable crops such as melon» explains the CSIC researcher at CRAG, Maria Coca.
Leskovar said center research focuses
on vegetable crop improvement under stress conditions, cropping systems, stress physiology, irrigation strategies, genotype adaptation and high - throughput phenotyping for crop improvement and diversity.
It was accidentally introduced to Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s from Asia and can damage fruit and
vegetable crops alike.
That's when Dr. Michael Bartolo, an
extension vegetable crops specialist and associate professor at Colorado State University's Arkansas Valley Research Center, obtained a plant of a strain of Pueblo chile from his uncle, Harry Mosco, a farmer on the Saint Charles Mesa, east of Pueblo.
Chile peppers are Mexico's most
important vegetable crop; they are grown all over the country from the Pacific and Gulf Coasts to mountainous regions with an altitude above 8,000 feet.
There were no potatoes or tomatoes yet, so their
main vegetable crops were turnips, parsnips, leeks, onions, and cabbage.
When a gardener anticipates growing
vegetable crops during the fall or winter, it would be wise to contact the local agricultural representative in an effort to find out which types of vegetables grow best at specific times of...
Having Faso on the House Agriculture Committee is welcome news for those of us in the dairy, livestock and
vegetable crop trade.
A survey of rice, wheat, barley, fruit, and
vegetable crops found that most mutants created by advanced genetic engineering techniques may be out of the scope of current genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations.
Cucumber is a major
vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.
He raises pigs and turkeys, along
with vegetable crops, but the livestock corn feed probably comes from Iowa, he said.
From tomatoes to pumpkins, most fruit and
vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species — and the future of many of those species is uncertain.
They're peas and beans that come dried, so a subset of legumes, so excluding green beans and fresh green peas, which are considered more
like vegetable crops, and also excluding the so - called oilseeds — soybeans and peanuts.
The species [of sugar beets] at issue (Beta vulgaris) is one of the
few vegetable crop species that is wind pollinated.
They are now the
biggest vegetable crop in the United States (U.S.), where the average person eats 55 pounds, or 35 kilograms (kg) of potatoes every year.
For example, the company's boxes include potatoes — Ontario's largest
fresh vegetable crop, according to the Ontario Potato Board.
Because it is labor - intensive, it is used primarily to produce high -
value vegetable crops or in orchards.
Demo Stations include: Farming Systems Trial (FST) Vegetable Systems Trial (VST) Industrial Hemp High Tunnels and Grafted Tomatoes
Organic Vegetable Cropping Composting Pest Management No - Till Management Pastured Hog Production Honey Bee Conservancy Agriculture Supported Communities (ASC)
Insect and disease damaged fruits and vegetables can quickly become unmarketable, and this might explain the relatively low organic yields of fruit and
vegetable crops compared to their conventional counterparts.
Detroit residents now may claim up to half - an - acre
for vegetable crops, berries and orchards.
From: A History
of Vegetable Crops in New Mexico, New Mexico State University Experiment Station Bulletin 624, 1974.
Greencell manages over 100 000 tons of fruit per year, sourcing a wide variety of fruit, salad and
vegetable crops from over 30 countries... read more
Whether you've got houseplants, a flower garden or your very
own vegetable crop growing in the back yard, you can enlist your elementary - aged child in taking care of them.
Like other trees, the oil palm plant serves as a natural reservoir for carbon and is more effective at sequestering carbon than other
major vegetable crops.
I use it out of the bottle as a daily health supplement (tastes great) and also as part of a organic fertilizer mix for my fruit and
vegetable crops.
I gained extensive experience with a wide range of
vegetable crops, and subsequently as a Regional Agronomist.
The rates of payment vary according to the crop produced: 700 Litas / ha (US$ 175) for fruit and berry crops, 350 Litas / ha (US$ 88) for
vegetable crops and 150 Litas / ha (US$ 38) for cereals and grassland.
Sivanto is assumed to be effective against various sucking insects such as aphids and whiteflies and can be used on a number of fruit and
vegetable crops but also on cocoa and coffee plants.
Most of the newly discovered hormone disruptors are fungicides applied to fruit and
vegetable crops, including strawberries and lettuce.
«Farmers may be able to use the exact methods to monitor pollination of their orchards and
vegetable crops and head off pollination deficits.
During the long dry season farmers here depend on irrigation to water
their vegetable crops, growing lettuce and tomatoes, green beans and onions, mangos and melons for urban markets all over the country and for export to Europe.
The comparison result indicated that the three
vegetable crops (cucumber, watermelon, and tomato) probably underwent narrower bottleneck events during domestication than the grain food crops (rice, maize, and soybean).
Naturally providing nutrients and boosting drought resistance could make it easier and more environmentally friendly to grow grain and
vegetable crops, fruit and nut trees, and even keep golf courses looking lush and green without using excess amounts of water and chemical fertilizer.
The WSSA researchers are planning to release similar reports across winter and spring wheats, grain sorghum,
vegetable crops, rice and cotton.
Virginia Ursin received her bachelor's degree in plant and soil sciences from the University of Massachusetts and her master's degree from the University of California, Davis Department of
Vegetable Crops.
The scientists designed experiments to evaluate plant growth responses of
vegetable crops to simulated seawater flooding.
With the rise of herbicide - resistant weeds in most grain and
vegetable crops, farmers are looking for alternatives to herbicides to control weeds.
So does Pectobacterium carotovorum, which primarily attacks roots; it is also the preferred mode of attack by the Botrytis fungus, which ruins fruit and
vegetable crops.