@WiscWeeds You need to know about the blacks for linen revival. I honestly do want to run cotton, there is a young farmer in Illinois who's had some sustained results.
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Graham Adsit
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Graham Adsit
@GrahamAdsit
Farmer @LngWinterFarm, CTO @BeamHealthcare, Cardiologist @UWHealth, Airman @AirNatlGuard, Ag Engineer
Katılım Ocak 2014
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Breaking news: Wisconsin enters the #cotton game!
We’re now the state’s largest cotton growers (~0.5 acres) #WiscWeeds
Strictly for science, of course 😁
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@MattHintz3 And also does not mean that my practical upbringing should exclude others from wanting the same extreme practical foundations. Yes it is lofty; I argue is more sustainable than rampant, blind consumption. I hope the urbanite can discern between the two.
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@MattHintz3 I've been thinking about this a lot. We don't need to "ground truth" art. It is okay to be whimsical, it is okay to be forlorn. I can bust balls with the greatest curmudgeons, I can be exceptionally practical and frugal. This does not exclude me from wanting simplicity.
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@JoeatDawn Suppose even 1/10 of the prediction about AI comes true, I think the only way we recover from that is heading back into manufacturing.
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You guys think we have it bad with the decline of mfg in the US...on vacation in the UK... It is like an entire economy of people selling coffee to each other. The Royal Mail even buys tens of thousands of crappy vans from France
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@JoeatDawn Within a week will be able to put you in a combine if you stop out.
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@JoeatDawn Life is good. I have some great projects going on, it's a good time of year to visit.
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@GrahamAdsit This is where giving JD all your data could be a good thing. How has it been going man? We need to catch up
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It was a busy and productive week for the #WiscWeeds team investigating how @JohnDeere See & Spray technology settings and boom setup influence weed detection and herbicide savings.
We are confident the results of this effort will be valuable to farmers adopting or exploring this technology, as well as to crop advisers, the crop protection industry, and the broader ag community, as changes in total herbicide spray volumes have agronomic, economic, and environmental implications.
Big thanks to our collaborators at Deere for their trust and partnership, and to the UW-Arlington Ag Station for the outstanding support with our large-scale targeted herbicide application research. Stay tuned for results!
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I love the smell of diesel fuel in the morning. It smells like victory. Someday this project is going to end.
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@MattHintz3 We eat need either Draconian punishments or gofundme links for the asparagus pickers.
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I hate farming on Memorial Day weekend, any road travel seems to involve people being extra cunty.
I don’t want to be in your way either, but we both need to get where we are going safely
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@JasonHanson2028 Would it really kill everyone to plant some God damn trees?
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Someone should get the former ND NRCS State Conservationist - who spent her decade in charge largely undermining anyone of substance within her own agency just to please the most vocal SCD Boards - to go on record about how well we accomplished our mission of “soil health” and “soil conservation” during her reign.
That would be a fun interview to watch, especially when she’s shown photos like this in 2025 (90 years after we should have figured it out). Of course she would say that they spent a lot of money and had a lot of success, but the natural follow-up would be “what could have been different?” had she had a spine and called out a few SCD Boards for their inaction (despite all the awards handed out), and had she supported her District Conservationists that were trying to actually solve the problem.
This is why I left NRCS. Not because of the people and the mission - both are largely excellent - but it’s because it’s not working. We’re not seeing results. And almost entirely because of shitty leadership and a bloated middle management class that sees success as dollars spent.
Enjoy the day. 🇺🇸
Godspeed.
Tim Dufault@6dollarwheatguy
Blackout conditions in the Red River Valley. 30 MPH sustained winds. Gusts of 45MPH. Second picture is my neighbor’s heavy tilled field blowing into my yard. Need some #SoilHealth
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@BenRiensche I'm willing to guess I have ripped out more trees than most average farmers, but I've also planted more. It's active management, and you have to prune the roots.
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@BenRiensche Old Experimentation primarily on evapotranspiration. As with anything these are difficult to do randomized, prospective. Regarding the original article, there's no chance I believe the claim regarding integrated agroforestry. I do believe trees can make more money than annuals
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Why promote fantasy farming? Engagement farming is what it really is.
Included are cute graphs showing benefits of all this style of farming does, except, PRODUCE FOOD TO EAT.
Anyone who farms by a woody hedgerow knows the adjacent pass has profoundly reduced yield.
Sam Knowlton@samdknowlton
Syntropic farming systems (SFS) achieve the same total productivity and income as conventional farming on only 10% of the land area. SFS have a land-equivalent ratios of 2.8-4.1, meaning that 1 hectare of SFS produces the same yield as 2.8-4.1 hectares of monoculture. 🧵
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@BenRiensche If your yields are water restricted, the infield areas have reduced evapotranspiration allowing for yield gains. There is also measurable effects on reduced wind erosion. Yield penalty by the tree, yield gain infield.
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@BenRiensche The rest of the field. Transvaporation effects on the leeward side (typically quoted as 10x the treeline height). There is no free lunch, though. You need to deep rip by the trees to keep the roots pruned.
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@GrahamAdsit Perhaps you could post a few yield maps from tree lined fields?
Would love to be proven wrong and that crop rows by the trees in Wisconsin are more productive.
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@Agronomy_Guy Now do an organic field. There is some very very low hanging fruit out there
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Add Hatzenbichler Camera Guidance Hitch to your existing rig. Eliminate the iron blight!
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You know... I am taking a fresh look at things I designed 20 years ago. Maybe it is time to go back to AgTalk.
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