Does a VPN get you around that?
Are you capable of being goaded #[3]
Watching practical #[0] spar with sanctimonious #[1] is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.
Ponds aren’t tough to make- depending on topography and size they can be pretty easy.
A small Cat like D4 or D6 will make a pond in short order.
Saluting is right- every time we slow the water cycle on the ground surface we create a system larger than the sun of its parts.
Build the pond(s), plant some cattails and trees, introduce fish- you are well on your way to a solid system.
The interesting thing about that chart is that much of the improvement is from corn- an important feedstock for CAFO livestock.
Wheat and rice are more direct food sources and haven’t benefited as dramatically from the types of innovation we see in corn and soybeans.
I absolutely believe wheat yield can be pushed in high management systems, but instances of doing that are rare, and often rotational to achieve other ends.
Another thing of note- Stock to Use ratio really hasn’t changed much over the timeline. So we are raising more crop on fewer acres to feed and fuel a greater number of people. At the same time, urban sprawl is steadily chewing into some the most productive lands- hardly the highest and best use from an agronomic point of view.
I would love to visit with a mob theory or chaos theory person about where this all goes. Some market theory states “Resources will find their highest and best use in an unregulated system”. That is an impossibility. Every system is regulated by a number of factors- ecological, climate, finance, time, capacity, and so forth then eventually bias and preference which we can call human policy. This might be a great topic for your podcast, if you can find an interesting person to visit with.
The interesting thing about that chart is that much of the improvement is from corn- an important feedstock for CAFO livestock.
Wheat and rice are more direct food sources and haven’t benefited as dramatically from the types of innovation we see in corn and soybeans.
I absolutely believe wheat yield can be pushed in high management systems, but instances of doing that are rare, and often rotational to achieve other ends.
Another thing of note- Stock to Use ratio really hasn’t changed much over the timeline. So we are raising more crop on fewer acres to feed and fuel a greater number of people. At the same time, urban sprawl is steadily chewing into some the most productive lands- hardly the highest and best use from an agronomic point of view.
I would love to visit with a mob theory or chaos theory person about where this all goes. Some market theory states “Resources will find their highest and best use in an unregulated system”. That is an impossibility. Every system is regulated by a number of factors- ecological, climate, finance, time, capacity, and so forth then eventually bias and preference which we can call human policy. This might be a great topic for your podcast, if you can find an interesting person to visit with.
The interesting thing about that chart is that much of the improvement is from corn- an important feedstock for CAFO livestock.
Wheat and rice are more direct food sources and haven’t benefited as dramatically from the types of innovation we see in corn and soybeans.
I absolutely believe wheat yield can be pushed in high management systems, but instances of doing that are rare, and often rotational to achieve other ends.
Another thing of note- Stock to Use ratio really hasn’t changed much over the timeline. So we are raising more crop on fewer acres to feed and fuel a greater number of people. At the same time, urban sprawl is steadily chewing into some the most productive lands- hardly the highest and best use from an agronomic point of view.
I would love to visit with a mob theory or chaos theory person about where this all goes. Some market theory states “Resources will find their highest and best use in an unregulated system”. That is an impossibility. Every system is regulated by a number of factors- ecological, climate, finance, time, capacity, and so forth then eventually bias and preference which we can call human policy. This might be a great topic for your podcast, if you can find an interesting person to visit with.
I can’t think of a single Family Guy gif I really care to see.
The whole show is about losers, which isn’t what Nostr is about.
This is just cheddar, typically I use a four cheese Mexican blend, shredded more fine.
A snapshot of the institutions of USA circa. ~2023 This is the physical representation of the spiritual and philosophical infrastructure of our country now.
Tired, run down, uninspiring, slowly closing in on itself. Those metal panels used to be glass windows. Now they are cheaply repaired covers admitting only darkness. What young person wants to be part of such a decrepit mess?
Yet it was young people that built this 70 years ago- why did they not have the vision to share the vision and vitality that built this? 
This is a bleak snapshot, but I see a lot of opportunity for market correction. There are tens of millions of acres of ethanol corn that can (should) shift to food crops.
That will happen anyway, as electrification of the US vehicle fleet accelerates- there isn’t going to be a magic home for all that ethanol.
The water problem is tougher- there is a bunch of moldy value tied up in irrigated land. The real problem in the water space is that for every significant increase in water use efficiency, there is not a corresponding decrease in water use- the savings get moved over to new acres, and the aquifer keeps getting sucked dry 10-200x faster than recharge rate.
The farm lobby groups are not thinking long term, and haven’t for decades. The grower groups think (at most) in 5 year farm bill cycles. For all the talk about passing the family farm on to the next generation, there is little that makes me believe this generational bridge is thinking broadly about the reality of it.
This is a bleak snapshot, but I see a lot of opportunity for market correction. There are tens of millions of acres of ethanol corn that can (should) shift to food crops.
That will happen anyway, as electrification of the US vehicle fleet accelerates- there isn’t going to be a magic home for all that ethanol.
The water problem is tougher- there is a bunch of moldy value tied up in irrigated land. The real problem in the water space is that for every significant increase in water use efficiency, there is not a corresponding decrease in water use- the savings get moved over to new acres, and the aquifer keeps getting sucked dry 10-200x faster than recharge rate.
The farm lobby groups are not thinking long term, and haven’t for decades. The grower groups think (at most) in 5 year farm bill cycles. For all the talk about passing the family farm on to the next generation, there is little that makes me believe this generational bridge is thinking broadly about the reality of it.
Yes, new life. This a wheat seedling in a field I was scouting.
Good morning! 
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