Propane Education and Research Council, Richmond, Virginia, is unveiling an eco-friendly solution for soil disinfection with the revolutionary propane-powered soil steamer. This groundbreaking ...

The undesirable side effects in lettuce crops grown on soils sterilised at 100°C, do not occur on soils sterilised with steam-air mixtures at 70°C. Both in pot experiments and in field trials, ...

“For over a century vegetable growers have been using steam to heat the soil to help eliminate pests.” U of I Extension Educator Mike Roegge also said that, “Many greenhouses utilized this method of ...

The search for non-chemical methods to control soil-borne pathogens has recently intensified considering the coming phase-out of methyl bromide in 2005, and none of the alternatives to methyl bromide ...

The first mobile soil steriliser was produced around 1908 by Mr P F Dorey, but it required all the soil to be dug up and wheeled out of the greenhouses to be steamed. A more practical method of ...

LAWRENCE -- A new paper appearing the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences gives new detail and understanding to the cultivation of corn, one of the United States' biggest cash crops. The ...

Crews have started work at two Georgetown locations to remove contaminated dirt under an agreement between the state, the city of Seattle, King County and Boeing. The two sites are at the north end of ...