Tag: Crops
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Integrating agriculture with solar panels shows promise
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” wrote singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1969, lamenting the view from her hotel window in Hawaii of parking lots “as far as the eye could see,” she said in a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times.…
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Palisade crops unscathed by recent cool down; growers still on edge after last year’s devastation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than one year ago, record low temperatures destroyed more than half of the crops within the Grand Valley region. National Weather Service meteorologist Megan Stackhouse said the temperature dropped to 19 degrees in Grand Junction on April 14, 2020 — the lowest since 1933.…
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Study: Vegetables irrigated by PFAS-contaminated water exposed to the chemicals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The public might be exposed to concerning levels of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) through vegetables grown with PFAS-impacted water, according to a study by Colorado School of Mines researchers. The study, published Tuesday by…