11/04/2024 By Edwin L. Aguirre. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently awarded a four-year, $744,000 grant to a team of researchers to develop new mulch films for agricultural crops that ...

The downside of plastic mulch is disposal, Domenghini adds. “Availability of biodegradable plastic mulches will likely increase in years to come,” Domenghini said.

Conventional mulch films are often plastic-based or made from non-renewable and toxic materials. In a recent Research article ...

Liu, E K et al. "‘White Revolution’ To ‘White Pollution’—Agricultural Plastic Film Mulch In China". Environmental Research Letters , vol 9, no. 9, 2014, p. 091001. IOP Publishing . doi ...

I stood in a Jeromesville store buying a pack of gum a few years ago and saw a friend who reads my column. He asked me about what happens to the black plastic you put over gardens in the spring.

Surprisingly, black plastic mulch is permitted for use on certified organic farms, according to Nicole Dehne, certification director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, which ...

EAST LANSING, MI—In 1999, more than 30 million acres of agricultural land worldwide were covered with plastic mulch, and those numbers have been increasing significantly since then. With the ...