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Part 2:

US: Greenhouse and nursery water conference recap

Highlights of the conference included controlling waterborne pathogens, designing effective water treatment systems, economics of wireless sensor irrigation systems and how to capitalize and market plants grown under water conservation practices.



Greenhouse and nursery growers from across west Michigan attended a one-day conference July 28, 2015, on improving water management. In Part 2 of MSU's Tom Dudek's two-part article series summarizing the presentations that took place at this conference, he starts with the presentation by Rosa E. Raudales from the University of Connecticut. She focused on how to monitor, sample and understand how pathogens in irrigation water can be a serious production problem. A variety of water treatment alternatives including chlorine, coppers, filtration (Photo on the left), reverse osmosis, etc., were discussed for various waterborne pathogens. For more specifics, he suggests going to Back Pocket Grower, specifically the list of Organisms on the Waterborne Solutions page.

Click here to read the complete article at msue.anr.msu.edu.
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