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ABSTRACT This article contributes new insights into farming women's experiences of isolation and how they imagine and create socio‐spatial formations for affective connections in their socio‐cultural and material environments. We draw on in‐depth interviews with farming women and participatory co‐design research in a sparsely populated region of South ...
Lia Bryant +2 more
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Mitigating apple replant disease with biocontrol soil treatments
Apple replant disease (ARD) can increase apple tree ( Malus domestica Borkh) mortality, delay production, and reduce yield, resulting in losses of up to $60 K/ha over an orchard’s lifespan. Common fumigation treatments can harm human and environmental health, have variable effectiveness, and disrupt beneficial soil microbial activity and processes. An
Meaghan A.A. Mechler, John A. Cline
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‘Just Love Us, We'll Do the Rest’. Competing Repertoires of Agrarian Anti‐Environmentalism
ABSTRACT Agrarian mobilisations no longer target solely public authorities, legislation and its economic and professional consequences. They are now increasingly structured to respond to other social movements and produce a structured discourse aimed at public opinion.
Sylvain Brunier, Baptiste Kotras
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Phosphorus Fertilization Can Improve Young Almond Tree Growth in Multiple Replant Settings
Young almond (Prunus amygdalus) orchards replanted where old orchards of stone fruits (Prunus sp.) have been removed are subject to physical, chemical, and biotic stressors. Among biotic challenges, for example, is almond/stone fruit replant disease (ARD;
Phoebe E. Gordon +4 more
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BIO-INCROP - Final report [PDF]
APPLE • Apple replant disease in central Europe has a consistent biotic origin which is responsible for about 30% of growth reduction in multi-generation orchards. Cylindrocarpon-like fungi and Pythium spp.
Manici , L.M.
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Xanthoceras sorbifolium Bunge, a unique oil crop native to northern China, has a long history of cultivation. In this study, X. sorbifolium Bunge was continuously planted in Zibo and Weifang, Shandong Province, to explore the factors that cause a decline
Gongshuai Wang +7 more
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Why sharecropping? : explaining its presence and absence in Europe's vineyards, 1750-1950 [PDF]
The traditional view that sharecropping was a cause of low productivity in European agriculture prior to the Second World War has been challenged by economic historians, and today the contact is often considered as efficient at reducing the monitoring ...
James Simpson, Juan Carmona
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Apple replant disease is a complex soil syndrome that occurs when the same fields are repeatedly utilized for apple orchard cultivation. It can be caused by various pathogens, and Fusarium solani is the main pathogen.
Mengli Yang +16 more
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Invasive Diseases and Fruit Tree Production: Economic Tradeoffs of Citrus Greening Control on Florida's Citrus Industry [PDF]
An investment model of Florida oranges was used to evaluate various management strategies for controlling Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, a highly destructive disease.
Morris, Robert A. +2 more
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Use of genetic resources and partial resistances for apple breeding [PDF]
Modern apple breeding strategies are mainly considering the most advanced selections and culti-vars as parents. This tends to lead to a narrowed genetic basis.
Duffy, Brion, Kellehals, Markus
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