It s a little crunchy, needs water, but it is safe, unlike chemical fertilizers, he said. Chester Mandrik, co-owner of Yard Spice, demonstrated how safe the fertilizer his company uses is by scooping a handful and taking a bite. Mandrik said he didn t give chemical gardening a second thought until he took an environmental science class while finishing a bachelor s degree program about six years ago at Daniel Webster College. I was taking an environmental science class, and it shook me up a...

To answer this question, ISU researchers compared several insecticide seed treatments in 2005 with several foliar carbamate and organophosphate insecticides applied when aphid levels met the 250-per-plant economic threshold level. Meanwhile, all foliage broad-spectrum insecticides tested in 2005 provided greater control and protected yield potential. Although timing may be perfect for the glyphosate, it's too early for the insecticide if aphid levels have not reached the economic threshold...

Standard methods for collecting fingerprints at crime scenes, which involve powders, liquids or vapors, can alter the prints and erase valuable forensic clues, including traces of chemicals that might be in the prints. Now researchers find tape made from gelatin could enable forensics teams to chemically analyze prints gathered at crime scenes, yielding more specific information about miscreants' diets and even possibly their gender and race. The gel tape can gather prints from a variety...

But Stemilt Growers inc., a bit player in the stone fruit industry but one of the nation's leading apple suppliers, isn't waiting two years to capitalize on the switch. Agricultural experts estimate the costs for growers at as much as 30 percent higher during the transition, and growers rarely get a higher return for the fruit during that time. Department of Agriculture, growers must raise their crop free of bug killer or fertilizer for three years. The company has created a new label...

After all, the organic growers keep bragging that their farming system is more sustainable and more "earth friendly" than conventional farming. They choose, instead, to use the old bare-earth farming systems, with plows and mechanical cultivators that invite erosion. Organic farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota have concentrated themselves on steep, hilly land that is prone to mudslides? That's a bad idea, given that organic farms already refuse to use the low-till farming systems that protect...

GMB distributes free fertilizer Herald Reporter THE Grain Marketing Board has started distributing 15 000 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer to communal, A1 and old resettled farmers countrywide as part of Government s efforts to cushion vulnerable farming communities. GMB distributes free fertilizer Herald Reporter THE Grain Marketing Board has started distributing 15 000 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer to communal, A1 and old resettled farmers countrywide as part of Government s...

Lesco, of Cleveland, supplies fertilizer, seed and chemicals to the professional green and pest-control industries. Based in Minneapolis, Inscape provides corporations with training materials and online services in 24 languages, enabling employees to learn interpersonal skills. Western Reserve Partners also advised Lesco when the financially troubled company sold its manufacturing and distribution operations. The sale of Inscape returned to investors 3.2 times the cash Riverside has...

Makhteshim officials said Cotoron, whose active ingredient is an older chemical called Fluometuron, is more of a strategic buy than a big revenue generator. arm of one of the world's biggest pesticide producers is adding to its portfolio with the acquisition of a DuPont herbicide used in Southern cotton production. Makhteshim sells generic pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and other crop-protection chemicals. Glyphosate products are dominant in the agricultural herbicide market, but are...

To suspend or fire a public figure for saying what they really think is to ensure watered-down opinions that are as useless as a small December wind whining for attention. There is rarely a day that passes in my free-woman life that somewhere, some man makes some derogatory remark like "them f--king women libbers. I line my birdcage with the mail or work it into the fertilizer for my rose bushes - and then I stand up and loudly defend any man or woman's right to say what they please about...