1694results about "Soil lifting machines" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for cultivating tea, particularly the method for organically cultivating tea, which comprises the following processes: (I) establishing an artificial complex ecological organic tea garden; (II) selecting tea seeds of the organic tea garden; (III) planting tea; (IV) seedling stage management; (V) soil management of the organic tea garden; (VI) nutrient management and utilization of the organic tea garden; (VII) pest control of the organic tea garden; (VIII) tea pruning of organic tea. The method for cultivating tea has the following positive effects that: as the organic tea is the inevitable trend of future tea production, the invention regulates organic planting of tea in China and promotes the large-scale development of tea producing areas toward harmlessness and organification; the method for cultivating tea does not rely on advantage factors of microecological nature of producing areas, makes full use of modern technical achievements and has strong technical operability, thereby ensuring the quality of the organic tea.

The invention relates to a technology for afforestation and planting in areas with shallow water level and heavily-salted soil and solves the problems of high cost for foreign soil replacement and short duration. The technical proposal is that: the process realizes the original soil planting by building an integral isolation zone in the greening area and controlling a microcirculation system inside the isolation zone and desalting with fresh water. The process comprises the following steps: A. building an isolation zone; B. desalting with fresh water until the salt content in soil is below 0.2%; and C. planting seedlings for afforestation. The technology solves the technical problems of high cost for foreign soil replacement and short duration of afforestation and greening in coastal areas with shallow water level and heavily-salted soil; and has the advantages of overcome serious erosion of underground salt water to soil mass, good desalting effect, reduced afforestation cost, improved soil structure, low requirements for raw materials for afforestation, applicability for various seedlings, easy maintenance and management and low cost.

The invention discloses a soil conditioner produced from ardealite as well as a producing method and a using method of the soil conditioner. The soil conditioner contains ardealite, humic acid, ferrous sulfate, urea and sulfuric acid which are mixed and shaped to granules. The soil conditioner is produced from ardealite which is the main raw material and added with a certain amount of nutrient elements and has the characteristics of conditioning the soil structure, adjusting pH of soil, activating the activity of nutrient elements of the soil, supplementing trace elements such as calcium, sulphur, ferrum and zinc in the soil, and the like; and the soil conditioner is suitable to conditioning of saline-alkali soil. The soil conditioner has the advantages of lowering the pH of surface soil, the content of water-soluble Na<+> and exchangeable Na<+> in the soil, the alkalisation degree and the volume weight of the soil, and enhancing the soil infiltration, the utilization rate of fertilizers and the soil productivity. A method for conditioning saline-alkali land, which is effective, economical, practical and consistent with the actual situations, is successfully proposed.

The invention relates to a comprehensive improving method for coastal saline soil. The method includes the steps as follows: 1) underground desalting; 2) improvement of soil physical structure; 3) salt leaching by a great quantity of water; 4) application of microorganism bacterial manure for soil improvement; and 5) plant arrangement and transplantation. The engineering patent technology of desalting using covered conduits, the technical measures for improving the soil physical structure and the improvement of microbial manure are firstly integrated by the comprehensive improving method so as to conduct sequential and comprehensive work. The comprehensive improving method is remarkable in the effect of soil improvement and has the advantages of effectively reducing the salt content in high saline-alkali soil in short time (within one growing season), preventing secondary alkalization, increasing soil fertility and establishing microorganism communities; beneficial microorganisms relieve the threat and the harm of salt and alkali to plants in the original saline soil, accelerate soil ripening and promote the greening progress of the original soil; and the survival rate of plants in the same year is up to above 95% and the water resource is saved.

The invention relates to a method for planting pollution-free rice rich in selenium by adopting biotechnology, belonging to a planting method of plants; the planting method comprises the steps of land selection, soil preparation, application of the soil activator Medina, variety selection and seed treatment, seedling strengthening by means of dry raising and spaced planting cultivation, timely rice transplanting and reasonable compact planting, adequate fertilization, scientific irrigation, adoption of selenium supplementing and transforming technology, comprehensive prevention and control of diseases and pests, harvesting and threshing, drying and storing. The method of the invention has obvious effect; proved by field production trials, the application of the biologics of the Medina can increase the plant yield by 20 percent to 40 percent and decrease the fertilizer dosage by 25 percent to 50 percent and improve the rate of emergence in saline and alkali waste lands by 40 percent to 80 percent; the method can overcome diseases of continuous cropping effectively, eliminate soil crusting and optimizing greenhouses, etc. so as to preserve the soil properties of land capability.

A method for covering the solinized soil by the sea with greenery includes such steps as improving said salinized soil by reinforced water draining, planting saline- resistant trees, culturing the saline-resistant vegetation, bush, arbor and grass, and planting them in said improved salinized soil.

The invention discloses an ecological integrated improved facility and improving method for saline and alkaline land. The ecological integrated improved facility and improving method are characterized in that: according to the ecological integrated improved facility for the saline and alkaline land, a salt removing filter layer is filled in a blind ditch; a layer of non-woven fabric is paved on the surface of the salt removing filter layer; mixed soil a of original soil and organic matters is filled above the non-woven fabric of the blind ditch; the blind ditch is filled and leveled up with the mixed soil; small square plots are arranged above the mixed soil a; acid salt removing columns are equidistantly arranged on each work plot; plants are respectively planted on each work plot; and thick peat soil is paved on the surface of the soil around the plants. The ecological integrated improving method for the saline and alkaline land comprises the following steps of: blocking; arranging the blind ditch; filling the blind ditch; filling and leveling up the peat soil; applying the organic matters; washing and removing salt; applying a modifying agent and acid fertilizer to the saline and alkaline land; arranging the salt removing columns; deeply ploughing and cultivating; and paving the thick peat soil. The ecological integrated improved facility and improving method disclosed by the invention have the advantages that a soil crumb structure is helped to form; the water permeability performance among soil layers is improved; and the development of crop root systems is effectively promoted.

The invention discloses a separated slope trench-shaped terrace soil preparation method applied to mountainous regions. A segment of mountain slopes in an original state is reserved between adjacent fields with the width of 2m and soil preparation depth of 1-1.2m, grooves with the width of 1.5m and the depth of 1m are excavated on slope surfaces, and then slope surface soil or local soil is mixed to rotten ripe high quality organic fertilizers with the thickness of 10cm for backfill. A mountain slope original state slope surface with the width of 2m is reserved between two grooves to serve as a ridge. A built field surface is a terrace in a counter-slope state, and the other side of the terrace is high and the inner side of the terrace is low. Another ridge with the height of 30cm is built on the outer edge of the terrace to block and store water and field surface runoff. The whole field surface faces to a direction along a contour line and mains a gradient of 3%.-5% longitudinally. Through using of the method, surface soil and weathered materials on mountainous region surfaces can be centralized and used, the problems of local soil an natural water storage are solved, and thus needs of planting of trees on the mountainous regions are met.

The invention relates to the crop growing field, particularly relates to a soil improver taking biomass particle carbide discarded in agriculture and forestry as a matrix and a preparation method thereof. The carbon-base soil improver comprises biomass particle charcoal, calcium magnesium phosphate or calcined lime, and binder, and also comprises other fertilizers, such as urea, monoammonium phosphate powder, potassium chloride, zinc sulfate, boricfertilizer, manganese sulfate, ammonium molybdate, ferrous sulfate and copper sulfate and the like. The biomass particle charcoal is a black powdered carbon particle (carbon soot) generated by incomplete combustion of the biomass under hypoxemia condition, has various properties similar with soil humus (acid) and strong ability to absorb and maintain nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and the like, and has obvious water retention and moisture preservation effects. The soil improver prepared by the preparation method has the characteristics of soil structure improvement, moisture and fertility preservation, temperature increasing, efficient environmental protection and wide application prospects and the like.

The invention provides an improving method of cured saline-alkali soil by utilizing agricultural waste biomass carbide. The method comprises the following steps: producing biological black wood charcoal and wood vinegar by straw thermal cracking carbonization; and applying a biological black wood charcoal and wood vinegar soil improving material. The method has the advantages and excellent effects that: the effect of improving saline-alkali soil is remarkable; before wheat is sown in moderate and severe saline sodium carbonate soil with salt content of 0.5-1.35%, the biological black wood charcoal modifier and the wood vinegar are applied to serve as base fertilizers, and the saline-alkali soil with a pH value more than 10 can be improved to be farmland which can be farmed in the same year, so that the yield of crops is greatly improved.

The invention relates to a reclamation method for a sunk paddy field caused by mining in mountainous regions and belongs to the technical field of improvement and utilization of environment, ecology and damaged fields. The method includes: performing topsoil stripping to fissured positions where fissures are created by mining sinking and lead to water leakage of the paddy field; covering water holding materials on fissured areas after topsoil stripping; compacting the covered water holding materials, pouring slurry and standing; performing topsoil backfilling and grinding to the fissured areas after slurry pouring and standing, and flattening to enable the fissured areas to be a whole with pieces of the paddy field around the fissured areas; and irrigating, nourishing and improving the paddy field after backfilling and grinding. By the method, the cultivation land where the fissures are created by mining sinking and lead to water leakage of the paddy field can restore the paddy field utilization mode and reach production level of a normal paddy field as soon as possible, a stable self-maintaining farmland ecological system can be formed, a paddy field protecting system can be formed, soil microbial content can be increased, physicochemical property of soil can be improved, and benign farmland ecological system circulation can be formed.

The invention discloses a method for planting Chinese angelica. The method comprises the steps of seedbed finishing, seeding, land preparation of a large field, transplantation, field management, disease and pest prevention and harvesting and processing. A seeding matrix is paved on a seedbed field, and a soil conditioner is added into the soil of a transplantation field, so that the potential of hydrogen of the soil is improved, and the fertilizer quantity is increased. The Chinese angelica planted by using the method is high in mu yield, high in quality and small in disease and pest damage.

The invention relates to the greenhouse crop planting field, in particular to compound microbes for reducing and disinfecting greenhouse soil and a soil disinfection method, and solves the problem of multiple defects in the prior art. The compound microbes comprise bacteria, actinomycetes, saccharomycetes and moulds. The soil disinfection method includes the steps of selecting June to September as a disinfection period to apply crop straws, organic fertilizer and the compound microbes on the soil after the crops are harvested; deeply plowing soil layers to form small ridges; covering ridge surfaces with plastic film, filling enough water under the film till the soil humidity achieves 100%, and sealing the mulching film and covering the greenhouse plastic film for 20 to 25 days; and uncovering the greenhouse plastic film and removing the mulching film for planting. According to the compound microbes for reducing and disinfecting greenhouse soil and the soil disinfection method, the method is non-toxic, harmless, pollution-free and residue-free, pathogenic bacteria, ova and the like in soil plough layers are killed, soil organics are increased, the soil physical and chemical structure is improved, soil fertility is improved, and good foundation is laid for improving product qualities.

The invention relates a treatment and utilization technology of saline soil resources, in particular to a treatment and utilization method of muddy seashore saline soil. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a water supply system consisting of a fresh water well, a water pump and a water supply pipe; excavating a salt leaching drainage ditch so as to establish a drainage salt leaching system; applying a cow dung and crop stalk fertilizer and a phosphogypsum soil and fertility improving fertilizer; with a small raised field as unit, irrigating fresh water to wash and leach salt; and planting and maintaining vegetation through cultivating the land by machine, sunning the upturned soil, planting the vegetation and irrigating the vegetation, wherein a planting technology with gradient increasing salt tolerance is adopted in planting the vegetation. According to the invention, for the salinity and structural characteristics of the muddy seashore saline soil, the muddy seashore strongly salined soil in the coastal zone is treated and utilized in combination with engineering measures, physical measures and chemical measures on the basis of salt tolerant plant appraisal; and The treatment and utilization method of the muddy seashore saline soil provided by the invention has the advantages of simplicity in operation, resource conservation, soil treatment and utilization cost of less than 166.21 yuan / m2 and plant survival rate of more than 90%.

The invention discloses a method for controlling salt and saving water of nutritional soil for planting crops on a mudflat saline-alkali land. The method comprises the following steps of: determining a salt control target value according to a salt-tolerance threshold of planted crops; restraining salt content and making moisture by irrigating soil moisture water into the mudflat saline-alkali land; performing deep plowing and deep tillage after the soil is dry; paving crushed crop straws under the surface of the soil; seeding after leveling the land; and finally returning the crop straws into the land for covering a sown land surface. Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, water resource is saved; and the irrigation amount can be reduced in the growth and development stages of the crops. When the soil moisture water is irrigated before sowing, because a four-electrode salt content sensor is adopted for monitoring a desalting process of the soil in real time, an irrigation salt control target and irrigation stop time are defined, and water resource loss is reduced; simultaneously, the straws are buried deeply and covered on the land surface, continuous damage caused by a capillary action is caused; an uplink surface congregation effect of the salt content in subsoil and underground water is prevented; soil salt return is inhibited effectively without irrigating for washing the salt in a dry season so that the water resource is saved; in addition, water loss is reduced because of the coverage on the surface of the land, the moisture keeping effect of the soil is improved and the irrigation amount in the growth and development stage of the crops can be reduced.

The invention discloses a method for improving soil fertility of a greenhouse and preventing a soil disease. The method comprises a biogas slurry storage step, a soil anaerobic fermentation raw material sowing step, a step of conducting soil tillage on evenly-scattered anaerobic fermentation raw materials, a step of conducting flood irrigation on a cultivated filed through the biogas slurry and water, a step of covering a mulching film for sealing, a step of depressing the greenhouse, and a step of uncovering the mulching film to again conduct soil tillage. The method has no chemical composition residuals, can not damage strain balance of various beneficial bacteria in the soil, does not enable the beneficial bacteria to produce drug resistance, is stable in disinfection effect, can play a role of disinfecting on a deeper soil layer, is low in disinfection cost, can be used in a certain area in large-quantity and high-strength modes, solves the problem that biogas slurry consumption in a biogas project is difficult, improves soil physical and chemical properties and acid-base equilibrium, improves disease-insect resistance of the crop and stress resistance of a bad condition, can kill harmful bacteria, reduces the disease, improves absorption efficiency of the crop on various fertilizer components, improves fertilizer efficiency of the fertilizer and saves fertilizing cost.

The invention relates to a flow or semi-flow sand dune recover method, which comprises that: 1, based on condition and soil parameter, selecting working area; 2, via the grass mode, selecting plant kind; 3, planting seeds into working area, the first year grass and arbuscle are mixed sprayed into face of sand dune, arbor is sprayed at the bottom; 4, spraying lignin water solution at the face of working area, said lignin is crosslinker of lignin, urea-aldehyde and lignin, with solidifier. The lignin is modified into hydroxymethyl / hydroxyethylation lignin. The invention has low cost and better effect.

The invention discloses a passivator for repairing a compound heavy metal polluted farmland. The passivator comprises the following components in parts by weight: 15-25 parts of rock-type mineral particles, 8-15 parts of nano-iron, 5-15 parts of a calcium magnesium phosphate fertilizer, 25-40 parts of coal ash, 15-25 parts of biochar and 10-15 parts of red mud. The passivator for repairing the compound heavy metal polluted farmland disclosed by the invention can effectively reduce the plant effectiveness of heavy metals lead, arsenic, cadmium and chromium in soil, and meanwhile, the soil nutrients are improved and the physical and chemical properties of the soil are maintained.

The invention relates to a saline-alkali soil irrigation and drainage ecological improvement method, comprising two parts, namely a composite gridded underground drainage brine discharging system and a water-saving irrigation washing system. The composite gridded underground drainage brine discharging system is formed by the way that a gridded drainage brine discharging network composed of a water absorption tube (branch drain pipe) and a blind drain is arranged below a saline-alkali soil layer, and salty underground water and washing influent seepage are discharged outside an improved region by virtue of two paths, namely the blind drain, the water absorption tube (the bran drain pipe), a collector pipe (main drain pipe) and the water absorption tube as well as the collector pipe; and the water-saving irrigation washing system is in charge of washing salinity in soil by adopting one or more than two measures of partition irrigation, estuarine rotation irrigation and intermittent irrigation. By adopting the method provided by the invention, the saline-alkali soil can be uniformly and efficiently improved, water resource can be saved, improvement time can be reduced, and better social, ecological and economic benefits can be achieved.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency tea-oil tree forest building method and relates to the technical field of economic forest plantation. The high-efficiency tea-oil tree forest building method comprises the following steps of: selecting and trimming built forest, performing soil improvement, performing soil culture and building the tea-oil tree forest. The high-efficiency tea-oil tree forest building method has the characteristics of improving the soil performance and the soil fertility and rapidly building high-quality and high-yield tea-oil tree forest, is suitable for building the tea-oil tree forest in all tea-oil tree plantation areas, and can be used for rapidly building other economic forests suitable for acid soil plantation.

The invention relates to a biological improving fertilizer special for saline-alkali soil and a preparation method thereof, wherein the improving fertilizer comprises the following components according to parts by weight: 30-50 parts of grass carbon, 10-30 parts of pine needle, 20-50 parts of cow dung, 10-35 parts of NovoGro, 5-10 parts of phosphate fertilizer, 5-10 parts of nitrogenous fertilizer and 10-30 parts of desulfurized slag or sulphur. The invention also provides a preparation method and application method of the improving fertilizer; the invention is mainly applied to soil improvement, fertilization and solodization of the saline-alkali soil after salt exclusion, and can activate soil and increase the total nutrient and organic matter content of soil. The improving fertilizer can promote the addition of a crumb structure of soil, improves the particle capillarity function of the soil, improves soil permeability, loosens the soil, enhances and rises earth temperature, and accelerates and promotes the infiltration capability and the drain function.

The invention discloses a coastal saline-alkali soil terrace type afforesting method for improvement of dredger fill. The coastal saline-alkali soil terrace type afforesting method for improvement of the dredger fill comprises water seepage ditches, foundation terrain dredger fill, straw curtains, geotechnical cloth, improved planting soil, local models and the like, wherein square seepage ditches of the water seepage ditches are longitudinally excavated in the lowest position of the foundation terrain dredger fill, particle-size ballast stones are filled into the square seepage ditches, the distance between the foundation terrain dredger fill and the ground is 1-1.5m, the gradient of the foundation terrain dredger fill is 15 degrees to 30 degrees, straw is distributed on the foundation terrain dredger fill, the geotechnical cloth is laid on the straw curtains, and then the improved planting soil is laid on the geotechnical cloth. Due to the fact that the coastal saline-alkali soil terrace type afforesting method for improvement of the dredger fill is combined with the terrace type shape, the coastal saline-alkali soil terrace type afforesting method for improvement of the dredger fill is beneficial to retaining rainwater, enables salinity to be effectively leached and reduced, is beneficial to fertilizer and soil conservation, and enables the survival rate of landscape plants to be more than 90%, the waste is effectively utilized, natural resources are protected, and afforesting cost is reduced by more than 50%.

A plant method for in-situ treating the soil polluted by Cd features that the plant Dongnan Jingtian is directly planted in the polluted soil for absorbing the Cd from the soil and after the plant is growing for 3-4 months, it is removed. Its advantages are high effect and speed and no secondary pollution.

The invention relates to a method for comprehensively modifying saline and alkaline land. The method comprises the following steps: preparing a saline and alkaline land modifier from 50-80kg of 95wt% (percent by weight) potassium sulfate, 30kg of 98wt% zinc sulfate, 30kg of 95wt% aluminum sulfate, 20kg of 95wt% manganese sulfate, 20kg of calcium chelating agent, 40kg of 95wt% calcium borate, 100kg of microbial agent, 2,000kg of crop straw with the length of 3-10cm and 300-500kg of 39wt% humic acid; leveling soil, restoring ridges and digging ditches when the temperature is constantly stable and is over 15 DEG C; uniformly scattering the saline and alkaline land modifier on the surface of the land; turning up the soil so that the saline and alkaline land modifier is uniformly distributed in the deep soil layer of 0-20cm below the surface of the land; irrigating the land with water depth of 5cm for about 10 consecutive days; transplanting saline and alkaline resisting rice seedlings to the modified saline and alkaline land; applying a small amount fertilizer for multiple times without changing the total amount of the fertilizer; and keeping the water in the land shallow.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural production, in particular to a coastal heavy saline-alkaline land sweet potato high-yield cultivation method. For coastal heavy saline-alkaline lands, a series of technical means such as furrowing to form raised fields, basin irrigation, organic fertilizer application, ridging, film mulching, cutting and under-film drop irrigation are adopted to realize high yield of sweet potatoes in the coastal heavy saline-alkaline lands. Underground water level can be decreased through furrowing to form the raised fields; saline matters in soil can be washed through basin irrigation; soil fertility and microbial floras can be increased through application of organic fertilizers; saline matters on ridges can be further washed, evaporation is reduced and saline matter surface accumulation can be eliminated through ridging, film mulching and under-film drop irrigation; and damages to films can be reduced, evaporation can be reduced and saline matter surface accumulation can be eliminated through cutting. Therefore, the high yield of the sweet potatoes in the coastal heavy saline-alkaline lands is realized.

The invention discloses a preparation for inhibiting soil nitrogen loss as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by mass: 1-40% of 2-chloro-6-trichloromethylpyridine, 0-5% of hydroquinone, 5-20% of accessory ingredient and 35-90% of solvent. The preparation disclosed by the invention can be evenly dispersed in an aqueous phase, and the preparation and a nitrogenous fertilizer are evenly applied into soil so as to effectively alleviate speed of urea to be hydrolyzed into ammonia under the urease action and also effectively inhibit the process of oxidizing NH<4+> into NO<3->; NO<2-> and NO<3-> leaching loss is reduced, and NOX and N2 can be further prevented from escaping because of denitrification; and the utilization rate of the nitrogen fertilizer is improved so as to improve the quality and the yield of the crops and lighten pollution to environment by the nitrogen fertilizer.

The invention is applicable to the field of ecological remediation and provides a treatment method for recovering mine wasteland vegetation. The method comprises the following steps of preparing an improved suspension liquid; spraying the improved suspension liquid; performing permeation improvement; spraying and seeding soil dressing substrate and recovering vegetation. According to the treatment method, the improved suspension liquid is prepared and sprayed on the surface of a mine wasteland, and permeates and diffuses toward the deep layer of the mine wasteland by utilizing the gravity permeation effect of the improved suspension liquid, so that the purpose of deep permeation improvement is achieved, and thus acidic and heavy metal ions which are likely to be reversely permeated in the deep layer of the mine wasteland are prevented from being reversely permeated to the surface layer of the mine wasteland due to the soil capillary action; and on the basis of an improved soil layer, a vegetation layer is reestablished, grass and shrub plant seeds are sprayed and seeded, so that the purposes of realizing vegetation recovery and conserving water and soil are realized.

The invention relates to a filling reclamation method for reclaiming coal mining subsidence lands by Yellow River sediment and belongs to the technical field of mine environment protection. The filling reclamation method includes: confirming trends and sizes of Yellow River sediment filling strips according to the sizes and the shapes of a subsided basin to be filled; draining accumulated water in the subsidence land via existing drainage ditches around the subsidence land, and building a field path and drainage ditches along the vertical filling trend in the central area of the subsidence land; confirming the soil stripping depth of every strip according to the sediment depth, the available soil depth and reclamation elevation of every strip to be filled, stripping surface soil from subsoil in a strip-separated and layered stripping manner, and piling the surface soil and the subsoil on two sides of every strip; filling along a direction from two ends of the strips perpendicular to the central drainage ditches to the drainage ditches, covering the strips by the subsoil and the surface coil sequentially in a reasonable thickness after drainage consolidation of the filled sediment, and finally leveling the land to form a reconstructed soil profile. The filling reclamation method provides technical supports for filling reclamation of the coal mining subsidence lands by the Yellow River sediment.

The invention relates to a method for improving soil in a saline-alkali land. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) punching the soil and improving the harden degree of the soil; (2) fertilizing; and (3) watering. A fertilizer applied to the method for improving the soil in the saline-alkali land adopts a formula containing a microorganism organic fertilizer after greening waste treatment, fine sand and a plant growth regulator at a volume ratio of (70-80):(19-29):1. The method has the technical effects and advantages that 1, the punching fertilizing excellently solves the phenomenon that a sloping lawn cannot normally absorb water fertilizer and causes the lawn to vigorously grow; 2, the border trees treated by taking a punching ventilating nutriment-replenishing measure are characterized in that the blade color is deeper, the blade is fat and the leaves are lush; 3, the harden soil is loosened and the water-holding and fertilizer-retaining capabilities of the soil are enhanced; 4, the soil is improved and fertilized; and 5, the environmental protection is benefited.

A mobile apparatus for heat treating agricultural material in a milling bin for insect and pest control comprises a frame having a plurality of wheels, an air handling device having an inlet for receiving air and an outlet through which a flow of air is delivered, and a heater having a channel in fluid communication with the air handling device. The heater is capable of heating air in the channel to a temperature of at least about 130° F. The apparatus also include a conduit in fluid communication with the heater for delivering the flow of heated air into the interior of the milling bin, and a controller for maintaining an air temperature within the conduit effective for treating the agricultural material for insect and pest control.