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Lesson 1: Nursery Operations
Unit 5 - Forest Research: Current Applications
Lesson 1: Nursery Operations
As it has done in the past, Canada's forest industry continues to apply new research and development to its everyday operations. This unit will deal with some real-life examples of how Canada's forest industry is currently putting research and development
into action. We will consider a real-life example of how one forestry
company in Alberta applied research and development to improve its
forest management practices over the years.
Our first real-life example of research and development applications can be found in nursery operations.
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Today, tree nurseries are typically equipped with very efficient water
delivery systems. One of the most efficient water delivery systems is an
overhead boom irrigator which allows water to be evenly delivered in a
timely fashion. A series of nozzles
along a pipe results in a uniform band of water. These booms are
often coupled to a motorized carrier that rides on tracking. The
advantages over hand watering or using a fixed sprinkler system is that
application is more timely, more uniform, and
aisle space previously needed to access plants can be replaced
with more crop.
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