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  2. How to actually remove pesticides from your fruit - AOL

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    There’s a lot to worry about when it comes to food—or rather, there’s a lot that people want you to worry about.

  3. Bokashi (horticulture) - Wikipedia

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    The fermentation bin does not release smells when it is closed. A household bin is only opened for a minute or so to add and inoculate input via the lid or to drain runoff via the tap. At these times the user encounters the sour odour of lacto-fermentation (often described as a "pickle") which is much less offensive than the odour of decomposition.

  4. Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Also, small-ruminant flocks in North America (and elsewhere) are sometimes used on fields for removal of various crop residues inedible by humans, converting them to food. Small ruminants, such as sheep and goats, can control some invasive or noxious weeds (such as spotted knapweed , tansy ragwort , leafy spurge , yellow starthistle , tall ...

  5. Slurry pit - Wikipedia

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    A fenced slurry pit. A slurry pit (also farm slurry pit, slurry tank, slurry lagoon, and slurry store) is a hole, a dam, or a circular concrete structure where farmers gather all animal waste and unusable organic matter, such as hay, and the run-off water from the washing of dairies, stables, and barns, in order to convert the slurry, over a lengthy period of time, into fertilizer that can be ...

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  7. Invasive stink bugs in WA, how to repel the smelly bugs and ...

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    The bugs can spray their smell several inches, but their smell does more than just stink up the air, according to Cascade Pest Control. When the bug’s smelly fluid is released, it transfers to ...

  8. Environmental impact of pig farming - Wikipedia

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    The nitrogen from pig waste can also contribute to acid rain in the local areas; team of scientists from the US Agricultural Research Service and the US Department of the Environment has examined and noted that within wastewater lagoons in North and South Carolina, there are a host of genes involved in the process of turning ammonia into nitrogen.

  9. Lime sulfur - Wikipedia

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    On deciduous trees it can be sprayed during the winter on the surface of the bark in high concentrations, but as lime sulfur can burn foliage, it must be heavily diluted before spraying onto herbaceous crops, especially during warm weather. Lime sulfur is approved for use on organic crops in the European Union and the United Kingdom. [4]