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Evaluation of Clean Chip Residual as an Alternative Substrate for Container-Grown Plants
Boyer, Cheryl (2008-05-15)
Clean chip residual (CCR), a forestry by-product, could become an important replacement for pine bark in containerized nursery and greenhouse crop production. Rising costs of pine bark (PB) due to reduced production, ...
Evaluation of Composted Poultry Litter Use in Horticulture
Marble, Stephen Christopher (2009-11-03)
The U.S. poultry and egg industry is valued at billions of dollars in gross farm receipts and employs hundreds of thousands of people. A Survey by the United States Department of Agriculture in 2008 revealed that in Alabama ...
Evaluation of Sustainable Alternative Substrate Components for Container Plant Production
Murphy, Anna-Marie (2011-04-06)
Pine bark, peat, and perlite have served as the standard substrate components of container-grown plants for over 50 years. Due to a number of factors, including increased transportation costs, a shift to in-field harvesting ...
Harnessing the Capacity of PGPR With or Without AMF for Improved Plant Use Efficiency of Chemical Fertilizers and Organic Manure
Adesemoye, Anthony (2009-05-15)
The basis for the application of fertilizers (manure and chemical) is to make up for soil nutrient deficiencies and maintain soil fertility towards improved crop yield. Fertilizers could exacerbate environmental problems ...
Horticultural Uses for Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum
Brown, Brian (2018-05-08)
Gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4 · 2H2O)) is a naturally occurring colorless and odorless solid mineral, with a very fine particle size. Gypsum is usually mined from natural deposits in the earth, but can also be ...
Mineralization in Soils Amended With Manure as Affected by Environmental Conditions
Watts, Dexter (2007-05-15)
Concerns for environmental quality have prompted interest in recent years to develop agricultural practices that mitigate nutrient loss to the environment. It is imperative that management practices are developed that ...
Soil Organic Matter Characterization and CO2 Flux in Long-Term Experiments
Kumi, Anthony (2011-07-27)
Increasing global concentration of atmospheric CO2 predating the beginning of industrial era mostly due to fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and changes in land management has necessitated studies that will quantify ...