Minimizing Food Safety Hazards for Organic Growers by Amy Simonne, Danielle Treadwell

“…FCS-8872, a 9-page fact sheet by Amy Simonne and Danielle Treadwell, integrates the key requirements of the Food and Drug Administration Guide to Minimize Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (FDA GAPs) and the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) in order to emphasize the areas in which producers can most significantly reduce the food safety risk for their consumers. …”
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Pillbugs, Centipedes, Millipedes and Earwigs by P.G. Koehler

“…Centipedes are fast-moving predators with venomous bites, while millipedes feed on decaying vegetation and can secrete a foul-smelling fluid. Earwigs are scavengers with pincerlike appendages. …”
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Facts about Fiber by Jennifer Hillan, R. Elaine Turner, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Fiber is a carbohydrate that we cannot digest, found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans. Adequate fiber intake can help us maintain good health. …”
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Forest Management in the Interface: Reducing Fire Risk by Bruce Hull, Raelene Crandall, Sarah Ashton, Rien Visser, Martha Monroe

“…Wise management of vegetation in and around communities, including procedures such as mechanical fuel reduction, herbiciding, and prescribed fire can be used to keep fuel loads low and increase the safety of developments in fire-prone areas. …”
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Wetlands as a Tool for Water Treatment by Jay Capasso, Lisa Krimsky, Jehangir Bhadha

“… Wetlands are often referred to as "nature's kidneys" because of their ability to remove pollutants from water via storage in the soil and vegetation, as well as through losses to the atmosphere. …”
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Facts about Fiber by Jennifer Hillan, R. Elaine Turner, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Fiber is a carbohydrate that we cannot digest, found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans. Adequate fiber intake can help us maintain good health. …”
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Wetlands as a Tool for Water Treatment by Jay Capasso, Lisa Krimsky, Jehangir Bhadha

“… Wetlands are often referred to as "nature's kidneys" because of their ability to remove pollutants from water via storage in the soil and vegetation, as well as through losses to the atmosphere. …”
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Les jardins partagés franciliens, scènes de participation citoyenne ? by Kaduna-Eve Demailly

“…As vicinity gardens managed by inhabitants who are part of a private association, they tend to promote urban vegetation, social cohesion and civic participation. …”
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Soil Subsidence in the Everglades Agricultural Area by Alan L. Wright, George H. Snyder

“…Snyder, describes the soils in the agricultural region in Florida south of Lake Okeechobee growing primarily sugarcane and winter vegetables, and addresses how the soils are changing with time. …”
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Soil Subsidence in the Everglades Agricultural Area by Alan L. Wright, George H. Snyder

“…Snyder, describes the soils in the agricultural region in Florida south of Lake Okeechobee growing primarily sugarcane and winter vegetables, and addresses how the soils are changing with time. …”
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FRUIT AND BERRY CROPS IN THE ENVIRONMENTS OF THE BUZULUKSKY BOR NATIONAL PARK by E. Z. Savin, A. M. Rusanov, I. O. Kin, T. V. Berezina, E. K. Loginch, T. A. Skvortsova

“…Buzuluksky Bor is the name of the largest woodland in the steppe zone (86,600 ha) of Northern Eurasia, and the only one in the Transvolga steppe. Woody vegetation of this forest consists of conifers (70%) and broadleaf trees (30%). …”
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Evaluating the accuracy of hyperspectral and multispectral images in wetland cover classification using data mining models (Case study: Shadegan wetland) by Hamid Bagheri, Rahime Rostami

“…Therefore, the characteristics considered for the wetland, in the three images obtained from the SVM algorithm showed that showing the differentiation of wetland vegetation use from irrigated agricultural land use is more ambiguous than other wetland features. …”
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The role of the family environment and parental nutritional knowledge in the prevention of behavioral feeding disorders in toddlers and preschool children – a narrative review by Paulina Kawecka, Małgorzata Kostecka

“…Sensory-based food education also generates positive outcomes by increasing children’s intake of fruits and vegetables, and this approach should be used to prevent selective eating. …”
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Daily variability of physicochemical parameters of water in reservoirs and watercourses in the aspect of the current state of knowledge and preliminary studies of Rotcze lake by Bartosz Bojarski, Karol Krystian Plesiński, Michał Maciej Bień

“…Material and methods: Water samples for analysis were collected in two places - near the platform located on the bathing beach (first point) and in the vicinity of the platform situated among the abundant rush vegetation, away from the bathing beach (second point). …”
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Evaluation method and module design for cost-effective compliance with irradiance guidelines to maintain soil quality in solar parks by Cesar Ilkay, Van Aken Bas B.

“…In particular, the vegetation on the soil is, in various degrees, shaded from direct sunlight and indirect, diffuse light. …”
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Identification and investigation of the area under cultivation in Lenjanat using Landsat 8 satellite images by Vahid Riahi, Parviz Zeaiean Firouzabadi, Farhad Azizpour, Parastoo Darouei

“…Using maximum likelihood classification and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of the agriculture crops in different periods of growth and according to their cropping calendar, the map of the cropping pattern of the area was determined. …”
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Analysis on Spatial and Temporal Variation and Influencing Factors of Evapotranspiration in Lianjiang River Basin Based on the Priestley-Taylor Model by WEI Xiaocha, JIANG Yi, WEI Zhengxue, CHEN Meng, LUO Yingzhong, ZHOU Jianlong

“…In general,the evapotranspiration in high vegetation area is higherthan that in low vegetation area;The evapotranspiration intensity of different soil types isshown as below: limestone soil>yellow soil>red soil>paddy soil>purple soil. …”
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Potential Diversity of Natural Regeneration in Peat Swamp Forest: A Case Study at Forest for Specific Purpose (KHDTK) Tumbang Nusa, Central Kalimantan by Dony Rachmanadi, Eny Faridah, Peter J Van Der Meer

“…Degradation of forest ecosystem including peat swamp forest is generally represented by the degradation of its vegetation cover. Forest degradation tends to follow edge-to-interior distance gradient. …”
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Boundary Extraction Based on Dual Stream Deep Learning Model in High Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Umut Aydar, Emin Özgür Avşar, Özgün Akçay, A. Cumhur Kınacı

“…The outcomes clearly revealed the importance of using multispectral band, height data and vegetation information as input data in boundary extraction beside commonly used RGB images.…”
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Effects of rubber leaf litter vermicompost on earthworm population and yield of pineapple (Ananas comosus) in West Tripura, India by P. S. Chaudhuri, T. K. Paul, Animesh Dey, M. Datta, S. K. Dey

“…Conclusion The present study reveals that crop yield is very much related to the particular concentration of vermicompost, beyond the level of which production declines and increase in vegetative growth, fruit weight and fruiting percentage of pineapple are strongly linked with the soil pH, av. …”
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