Irrigation
This irrigation method is favored for its high water-use efficiency because it delivers water directly to the root zone of individual pots via emitters, minimizing evaporation and foliage wetting.
What is drip irrigation?
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium are classified as "Mobile" because the plant can physically move them from these older areas to sustain new growth during a shortage.
What are older leaves?
This is the total amount of Nitrogen, in pounds, found in a 10 lb. bag of Bone Meal with a 4-12-0 analysis
What is 0.4 lbs.
What do animal rights activist believe?
What is - animal rights activists believe that animals have the same rights as humans?
What is vertical integration?
What is a business strategy where a company gains control over multiple, consecutive stages of its supply chain.
While this method is inexpensive to install and effective for high-density crops like plug trays, its primary "con" is the increased risk of foliar disease due to constant leaf wetting.
What is overhead watering?
This category includes Boron, Manganese, Zinc, Copper, and Molybdenum; though required in tiny "trace" amounts, their absence can completely halt enzyme functions.
What are micronutrients?
A 1:500 fertilizer injector will produce how many gallons of fertilizer water?
What is 500 gallons of fertilizer water
What do animal welfare activists believe?
What is one company that is vertically integrated (any industry)?
This specific brand of water-powered injector is the industry standard for "fertigation," allowing growers to precisely mix concentrated fertilizers into the irrigation line without electricity.
What is a Dosatron?
These three specific elements—Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), and Sulfur (S)—are not primary macronutrients and not micronutrients. What are they?
What is secondary macronutrients?
This is the total weight of dry soluble fertilizer (17-5-24) needed for a 5-gallon bucket if the injector ratio is 1:200 and the desired nitrogen concentration is 150 ppm.
What is 117.65 ounces
While the cattle industry remains fragmented, this poultry sector is nearly 100% vertically integrated, with companies like Tyson providing the chicks, feed, and processing.
What is the broiler industry?
What is one agricultural industry that is vertically integrated?
What is the poultry industry?
Despite its precision, two major "cons" of this system include high initial labor/installation costs and the tendency for small emitters to become "clogged" by mineral deposits or algae.
What is drip irrigation?
A greenhouse tomato crop is showing a distinct V-shaped yellowing (chlorosis) that begins at the tips of the oldest, bottom leaves and moves toward the stem. What is this deficiency?
What is a nitrogen deficiency?
To achieve a concentration of 100 ppm of Nitrogen using a 20-20-20 fertilizer and a 1:50 injector ratio, this is the total amount of fertilizer, in ounces, required for a 5-gallon bucket
What is 33.33 ounces?
What is contract farming?
Agricultural production being carried out on the basis of an agreement between the buyer and farm producers.
What are two cons of vertical integration?
What is less market competition and requires companies to have lots of money to start.
What happens inside of a plant when the plant looses water?
The newest leaves at the top of a Petunia plant are turning a bleached yellow or ivory color, but the veins remain dark green. This nutrient is immobile, and its uptake is often "locked out" if the substrate pH is too high
What is an iron deficiency?
In a 50-gallon NFT Lettuce reservoir, this is the amount of 8-15-36 fertilizer required to reach a target of 120 ppm of Nitrogen.
What is 10 ounces?
What are the five different categories of stress that animals experience?
What is climatic, geographic, nutritional, internal, social stress, and geographic?
What are three pros of vertical integration?
What is better supply chain control, reduced costs, and enhanced quality control over products