Calag Archive

A pilot model downdraft gasifier demonstrated the feasibility of using crop and wood residues to produce low-Btu gas.

Small-town economies have rebounded with the influx of new residents from cities, who bring with them skills, professional backgrounds, or retirement incomes.

Small amounts of Fusarium wilt-suppressive soils added to greenhouse soils effectively reduced plant loss.

Northern fowl mites were controlled for up to three months on chickens sprayed with a synthetic pyrethroid.

Laboratory-induced resistance of spider mite predators to dimethoate has been shown to persist in nature, but the level of resistance is unsatisfactory at current vineyard pesticide application rates.

Sugarbeets responded, but wheat and bermudagrass did not, to the addition of a nitrogen stabilizer to fertilizer nitrogen.

A layer of herbicide applied by spray blade below the soil surface acted as a barrier to emerging yellow nutsedge long enough for beans to become established.

Carefully timed chemical applications will control the destructive skeletonizer gradually spreading through California vineyards.